Senior Manager, Digital Delivery and Innovation

Hill International is posting for a Senior Manager, Digital Delivery & Innovation, for GISI Ignite in New York, NY, Arlington, VA, Denver, CO, or Newport Beach, CA, with potential client travel. Palladium, another GISI Company, is the hiring platform for this role. If you are interested in the role, please apply directly at: Palladium Career Site.

GISI is a global, employee-owned family of companies focused on construction, infrastructure, earth and environment, and global development. GISI Ignite is GISI's newly launched centralized technology and innovation team, built to strengthen how our operating companies deliver projects and provide expert guidance on AI, data, and digital solutions. GISI Ignite develops scalable platforms, drives workflow modernization, and helps operating companies apply cyber-physical solutions that strengthen the performance, resilience, and safety of major capital programs.

Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. Palladium operates in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 2,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff around the world. This role is hired through Palladium, the operational platform for Ignite.

This Opportunity:

Support the delivery of technology-enabled solutions and innovation programs across GISI’s family of companies and client portfolio. The Senior Manager will advise design, engineering, and construction management projects on the use of technology to enhance delivery. The role helps internal and external clients define problem statements, evaluate options, and implement impactful solutions across architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) domains for application in infrastructure and mobility, government and society, and the natural world (earth and water).

The ideal candidate brings experience and understanding of AEC disciplines, combined with the application technologies such as: design automation, PMIS workflows, BIM/VDC, digital twins, agentic AI, and other emerging technologies. The practitioner will translate real-world workflows into scalable, technology-driven solutions.

This person will operate as a seller–doer, operating across strategy and execution. Assignments will span internal operational efficiency initiatives and external client engagements, working closely with GISI Ignite Directors, Operating Companies (OPCOs), clients, and GISI’s technical teams to ensure innovation and digital transformation engagements are aligned with business needs and deliver measurable value.

Client Engagement & Advisory
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders internal and external to GISI operating companies
• Lead discovery activities—including interviews, workshops, and field assessments—that surface project delivery, coordination, data, and workflow challenges 
• Identify cross-company and cross-sector patterns related to digital delivery, model-based workflows, automation, and data integration
• Assess and improve project delivery workflows using technology, while balancing standardization with project realities

Solution Design & Innovation Delivery
• Lead strategy and development of innovation concepts, digital transformation pathways, and solution requirements, translating business needs into actionable solutions
• Translate business and operational needs into actionable requirements for software, data, and automation solutions, including BIM-enabled and model-based approaches 
• Evaluate and advise on technology acquisition and delivery pathways, shaping the organization’s innovation and digital transformation roadmap and investment priorities
• Evaluate and devise strategies that account for people, process, technology, and governance components for each engagement
• Conceptualize and deliver proofs of concept, prototypes, and pilot implementations, including model-driven, automation-enabled, or analytics-based solution

Program Management & Execution
• Provide strategic and day-to-da