Global Is​/It Director - Artificial Intelligence

GLOBAL IS / IT DIRECTOR - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution! OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies.

With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting‑edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

Directly reporting to the Group Chief Digital & Information Officer, the Global IS/IT Director - Artificial Intelligence is responsible to drive and accelerate AI‑driven transformation, improving company AI literacy, creating AI strategies and evolving AI capabilities, implementing participative operating models, and codifying governance practices that reduce risk and increase differentiating business value across Business Groups and functions.

• Accelerate AI‑driven innovation and transformation by building and maintaining a vision for how AI will drive value aligned with strategic objectives by working with board members and other C‑level executives.
• Foster collaboration and bridges departmental gaps to develop cross‑organizational and functional alignment in accordance with the enterprise AI vision. Establish, in collaboration with peers and the Advanced innovation team, an internal and external AI ecosystem, building working relationships with vendors, partners, research institutes, regulators, industry associations, and other external stakeholders.
• Establish a world‑class AI strategy and organization that aligns with the company’s overarching enterprise vision, including goal setting and measuring AI initiatives.
• Define the operating model and delivery capabilities to engineer and operationalize AI initiatives, overseeing the development and execution of advanced AI products and solutions, ensuring their scalable and seamless integration across the organization.
• Work with peers to evolve responsible AI policies and governance programs to address AI’s unique regulatory and compliance requirements—especially data usage, model explainability, fairness, and privacy—while ensuring appropriate audit controls and adherence to ethical mandates. Establish effective collaboration between security, risk, compliance, legal, ethics, safety, and other stakeholders to rapidly adapt practices as necessary.
• Give overall visibility to the AI portfolio and budget for AI initiatives, overseeing the allocation of resources for both current AI portfolios and long‑term AI foundational capabilities. Establish transparent AI portfolio evaluation to estimate, measure, and foster accountability for business value and ROI of AI initiatives.
• Foster and cultivate AI literacy across the enterprise, leading transformation efforts and developing change management programs.
• Contribute to the strategy and creation of heuristics for build, buy, and blend decisions. Contribute with Chief Technology Officer and Chief Enterprise Architect to AI architectures and the selection of AI platforms and technologies.

• Business and financial acumen:
  Understand business concepts, practices, and business‑domain language deeply enough to engage in problem‑solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language. Align AI initiatives with the organization’s overarching vision, strategic goals, current market circumstances, and competitor activities. This includes understanding how AI will impact business objectives beyond financial metrics.
• AI‑driven business transformation:
  Understand how decision intelligence, agentic AI, and other AI practices/approaches/application areas can transform…