Manager - AI Strategy & Solutions Delivery
Listed on 2026-01-27
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IT/Tech
AI Engineer, Data Science Manager
Overview
Manager - AI Strategy & Solutions Delivery — Reporting to VP, AI Center of Excellence, this role drives enterprise-scale AI and automation strategy and execution. You’ll define the roadmap, architect solutions, and lead cross-functional delivery to unlock measurable efficiency and innovation. Sitting at the intersection of product leadership, technical program management, and intelligent solutions architecture, you’ll deliver agentic automation and AI solutions from strategy and portfolio shaping to solution delivery and operating model design.
You will work hands on with data scientists, ML and platform engineers, and senior business leaders to deliver high impact use cases; and, when the use case calls for it, lead data science teams in model development, shaping modeling strategy, evaluation frameworks, and production pathways to value. This role is designed for a leader who can move from whiteboard to working solution to scaled adoption, while keeping value capture, safety, and sustainability front and center.
This role is responsible for ensuring value creation by (a) developing long term strategies to build AI solutions that maximize business value, (b) enabling rapid and iterative execution of AI projects, and (c) augmenting our innovative AI operating model by creating processes, establishing standards, and contributing thought leadership.
- Identify, qualify, and prioritize high impact AI, analytics, and agentic automation opportunities across business domains.
- Quantify full value at stake and value levers (automation, augmentation, revenue lift, risk mitigation), with clear dependencies and path to realization.
- Bringing together expertise in AI, data engineering, solution architecture, and relevant business domains to design fit-for-purpose solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, and agentic automation.
- Translating ambitious north star visions into executable plans, building alignment among relevant executives and business stakeholders on timing and delivery.
- Achieving maximum scale from AI solutions by proactively identifying and addressing barriers to scale and generalizing solutions to multiple applications.
- Partner with vendors and internal platform teams on best practices on platform governance to ensure enterprise grade scalability, security, and compliance (e.g., Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI, Power Platform, AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker, Databricks).
- Serve as solutions architect and product owner for critical initiatives—defining scope, non functional requirements, SLAs/SLOs, and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with AI and ML engineering leaders to manage versioning, iteration planning, and solution delivery, creating transparency for business stakeholders and proactively mitigating delivery issues.
- Build productive relationships with key business stakeholders to help them co-own the AI solutions, enabling the business to provide feedback and guidance at all stages of development.
- Bring business expertise and focus on value capture to AI problem-solving during development, helping the team maximize impact and minimize unnecessary complexity.
- Augment business stakeholders’ teams with AI and change management expertise, helping them realize maximum value from AI solutions.
- Lead in interactions with AI and ML engineering teams to develop and codify more effective ways for AI and strategy teams to collaborate.
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of AI and automation advancements.
- Oversee the needs for documenting knowledge, creating templates, and authoring playbooks to help the team scale.
- Develop and maintain three synchronized roadmaps: stakeholder engagement & adoption, use case portfolio, and technical capabilities/platform evolution.
- Conduct peer training and author thought leadership along with other team members to augment the full team’s skills.
- Develop new delivery frameworks and help the team build new service offerings.
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