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Sr Director IEEE Future Directions (E2458)

Piscataway, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Apr 2026

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Sr Director IEEE Future Directions (E2458) - 260133: EXE-A30

Description

Job Summary
This position, along with the group that they manage, provides support to the IEEE Organization Units to remain current, forward looking, and visible in terms of new technology coverage, global challenges, and new approaches for working with technology professionals. The Future Directions team drives continuity in strategic thinking and anticipating, identifying and planning in these new areas,and provides coordination across the various IEEE OUs and functions. In addition to assuring the IEEE remains on the forefront of Future technologies, challenges, and approaches, this group assist in spawning of new technology communities within IEEE, assists in the transition of these new communities and/or their activities (e.g., conferences, pubs) to a sustainable state, and assists in making these new efforts visible/usable/attractive to a larger technical audience, in particular practicing engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Management of the technology and applications directions within IEEE.
a. Provide overall coordination for new technology and new approaches across IEEE
b. Assess timing of activities for new technologies and their applications
c. Lead horizon scanning efforts through literature review, review of upcoming funding opportunities, industry reports and road maps, etc.
d. Partner with societies, councils to align society and councils’ technical interest with potential emerging technologies
e. Support volunteers in leading the development of roadmaps and white papers and other deliverables
f. Design and implement a robust framework for starting, continuing, transitioning and sunsetting of FDC initiatives.
g. Assess timing of activities for new technologies and their applications within and across Societies and Councils
h. Provide for market assessment of new areas to be considered within TA and coordinates their coverage across the various Societies and Councils
Manage a small but technically deep department that supports
a. The introduction of New Technologies by organizing new communities, supporting new conferencing events, transitioning groups to a sustainable long term state within IEEE, coordinating and increasing the visibility of IEEE efforts in these areas.
b. IEEE participation in global endeavors termed Grand Challenges or Prizes, such as the Humanitarian Technology Challenge, XPrize etc.
c. The introductions of New Approaches, such as social networking tools, new collaborative efforts (some specifically targeted to corporate involvement), video content application, and simulation application integration into other IEEE Intellectual Property activities.
Form Partnerships
a. Assess opportunities for interaction with technical professionals inside and outside of IEEE through driving experimentation and competitions.
b. Form partnerships with outside organizations to increase the impact of FDC initiatives
c. Partner on innovative approaches to integrate machine learning and AI into existing Technical Activities infrastructure and across other organizational units.
d. Work with Societies and Councils and Educational Activities to identify new IEEE learning opportunities that would be useful to the Society and Council members
e. Work with Society and Councils and TA programs and Technical Activities Committee on Standards to identify new leading edge standards opportunities.
f. Support the industry advisory board and the MegaTrends report
Serve as the technical advisor to Managing Director, Technical Activities
a. Drives comprehensive content coverage and effective delivery, ensuring all areas are supported in a coordinated, timely, and thorough manner across IEEE.
b. Assesses opportunities for interaction with technical professionals by enabling experimentation, for example working with the TAB VP and leading the technical content of the annual Tech Summit.