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Job Summary
Located in Austin TX and Reporting to our VP of Enterprise AI Strategy we are eagerly looking to hire a Director Enterprise AI Product Management for our Enterprise Forecasting .
The AI Product Manager Enterprise Forecasting is responsible for shaping orchestrating and scaling AIpowered forecasting capabilities across the enterprise. This role spans the full manufacturing value chain from customer demand forecasting through supply chain planning material requirements planning (MRP) factory scheduling and shopfloor intelligence and enterprise financial forecasting.
This leader will identify highvalue opportunities to leverage advanced analytics and AI; translate manufacturing commercial and operational needs into clear AI product requirements; and drive delivery through close collaboration with business stakeholders digital & data teams and the AI Engineering & Lab.
The role emphasizes strategic alignment roadmap ownership crossfunctional orchestration and business value realization.
What a typical day looks like:
- Develop and own the endtoend AI strategy for enterprise forecasting across Demand Supply MRP Production and Financials.
- Build a multiyear roadmap of AI forecasting products including value cases readiness assessments and sequencing.
- Translate forecasting and planning challenges into wellscoped AI use cases including problem statements success metrics data requirements and deployment pathways.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise strategy planning cycles and digital architecture.
- Drive design testing integration and scaling of forecasting AI solutions into operational environments and workflows.
- Coordinate delivery across AI Engineering Data Science IT Data Platform Operations Technology and functional SMEs.
- Ensure the organization is prepared to adopt AIdriven forecasting tools through clear process design training and governance.
- Communicate progress risks and business outcomes to senior leadership.
The skills we are looking to add to our team:
- 10 years of experience in product management AI/ML product ownership or enterprise forecasting roles.
- Deep knowledge of forecasting across at least one major domain:
- Customer Demand Planning
- Supply & Inventory Planning
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Production Scheduling / Factory Planning
- Financial Forecasting
- Experience working with data analytics and AIenabled solutions in manufacturing or supplychainintensive environments.
- Proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and AI solution designs.
- Strong leadership communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Experience leading crossfunctional initiatives in large matrixed organizations.
- Familiarity with agile and iterative delivery methodologies.
Some of our preferred experiences:
- Experience deploying AI/ML forecasting models (e.g. timeseries gradient boosting deep learning).
- Understanding of enterprise planning systems (e.g. Onestream Kinaxis).
- Background in manufacturing industrial engineering supply-chain analytics or operations research.
- Experience operationalizing AI solutions into factory systems planning environments or financial planning processes.
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What youll receive for the great work you provide:
- Full range of medical dental and vision plans
- Life Insurance
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Matching 401(k) Contributions
- Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
Job Category
Design Process & Technology Engineering
Is Sponsorship Available
No
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