Senior AI Group Leader

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We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Senior Leader to establish and lead a new, multi-disciplinary AI Group in China. This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role pivotal to ensuring AVEVA’s AI strategy, existing and roadmap AI capabilities are aligned with the unique needs of the China market and can deliver market defining AI solutions and global and local stakeholder engagements.

We are specifically keen on individuals with deep understanding of frontier and emerging AI and ML technologies and can bridge across advanced AI, ML product management, engineering, and AI business.

• AI Group Strategy & Planning:
  Define and drive the China-specific AI strategy (across technology, portfolio and business) in alignment with global objectives. Identify emerging AI technologies and market opportunities and translate them into actionable, differentiate AI portfolio roadmaps and strategic external partner plans
• Team Formation & Leadership:
  Recruit, onboard, and develop a new AI Group team in China. Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and AI excellence. Provide coaching, career development, and succession planning
• Source & Translate Emerging AI Technologies:
  For Industrial AI applications, deeply understand AI and ML advances, navigate ambiguity and make thoughtful trade-offs in both 0 to 1 and ongoing lifecycle management environments to identify opportunities where AI can help address value-driven and real-world use case for industrial customers in the China market
• Market & Customer Insight:
  Serve as the voice of the China market for AI. Gather and synthesize customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and regulatory insights to inform product direction.
• Requirements Management:
  Lead the creation and prioritization of AI requirements documents and end-to-end roadmap, prioritizing features, data constraints, model performance, and plans based on customer use cases, scientific and technological advancements, and broader industrial sector analysis. Ensure clarity and alignment across engineering, product, and commercial teams
• Cross-Functional Leadership:
  Partner cross-functionally (Portfolio, R&D, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) to ensure competitive and successful AI roadmap, capabilities launches, lifecycle management, and AI business health.
• Commercial Support:
  Partner with China commercial teams around commercial model, pricing, go-to-market and customer success
• Governance & Reporting:
  Establish KPIs, manage budgets, and report progress to global and regional leadership. Ensure transparency and accountability across the AI portfolio lifecycle

• 12+ years of experience with at least 5 years in an AI technical leadership role for complex AI portfolios covering both emerging 0 to 1 and established AI products
• Recent experience with modern AI paradigms such as world models, foundation models, and multi-modal language models; agent-based systems and…