AI Product Development Lead

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced AI Product Development Lead to play a pivotal role in developing and delivering Rockwell Automation's enterprise AI strategy. You will be a critical business leader for a comprehensive portfolio of advanced analytics products. You will establish relationships with important leaders from across the business and with external partners critical to the success of programs, including direct interaction with individual contributors, manager, director, and vice president leadership.

As a Lead, you will act as a team lead for one or more Product Development Manager resources, driving prioritization across the portfolios and managing VP and above level escalations. Additionally, you will serve as the main content authority and lead in AI Product Development efforts through design within Architecture, Engineering, Strategic Planning & Information Technology. They must ensure on-scope and on-budget delivery of the product portfolio objectives, including business requirements definition and prioritization, driving cohesive end-to-end solutions, representation of Product within SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Program Planning sessions, and full testing of strategic initiatives.

You will report to the Director for Product Design and Development in Data Analytics, Insights, and Innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Leadership: Be a partner providing influence in stakeholder relations through their immediate core team, defining delivery timelines, directing the core team's activities, tracking performance and maintaining the team's alignment with other relevant programs and product portfolio goals. Communicate across the core team, consistently reporting status, risks, and issues. Displays the ability to enforce roles and standards across the various core team members. Communicate status, escalates issues and assists with solution definition at a senior leadership level.

• Thought Leadership: Provide leadership for short-to-mid-range product development planning. Serve as both a business and technical product expert in the product development area supported. Utilize experience to vet through requirements and define optimal development approach for the specific initiative. Prepares product requirements documents (PRD). Identify product improvement opportunities, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define enhancements to improve quality, gain efficiency and reduce the cost of existing products. Act in solving challenges impacting the progress or success of a product development initiative. Lead efforts to prioritize and accelerate time to market. Rely on experience, judgment, and high-level business relationships to plan and accomplish goals. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

• Communication: Draft communication plan specific for each product development initiative. Apply discipline in communicating program status frequently based on criticality of each project. Run and structured meetings including agendas, meeting notes, and action items. Make presentations using appropriate tools to help get the message across.

• Program Management: Program management is the essence of your job responsibilities. Define and drive a project per agreed-upon development and release plan. Administer product development process from Concept through Launch. Conduct project scoping and impact assessment. Lead day-to- day project delivery activities. Manage accurate and complete project deliverables.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and related experience

• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years experience in

  • Program Management

  • Team and Stakeholder Leadership

  • Status Reporting

  • Risk Management

  • Public knowledge of Rockwell services

• Master's degree

• Cloud Certification – AWS, Microsoft/Azure, Google Cloud

• Certification in Agile, PMP, or SAFe/Scrum methodologies

• Comfort with Jira Align

What We Offer:

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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