AI Opportunity Lead | Krakow, Poland

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and incentives

Well-being and care

Paid and unpaid leave

Flexible work options

Benefits for financial security

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an AI Opportunity Lead within the Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence (DAAI) organization to identify promising AI capabilities and shape them into focused validation questions.

You will work with AI Researchers and experimentation engineers to translate opportunities into credible Hitachi Energy scenarios and coordinated validation work. The role emphasizes partnering with multiple groups, managing a pipeline from concept to recommendation, and helping

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in innovation, technology opportunity development, product or program management, AI, or strategy.
• Hands-on knowledge of current AI tools and ability to frame unclear ideas as focused questions with evidence.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills in a developing process environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify and shape AI opportunities and translate them into validation questions.
• Coordinate validations across the team and maintain a clear pipeline with leadership.
• Build partnerships with internal teams, partners, vendors, and suppliers within procurement and security constraints.
• Help define how the new team works with stakeholders and establishes processes.

Skills

Innovation management

Technology opportunity development

AI strategy

Program management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Computer science

Data science

Engineering

Business informatics

Job description

Identify and shape promising AI opportunities for Hitachi Energy and turn them into focused, testable validation questions. As AI Opportunity Lead in the Technology Validation team, part of Hitachi Energy's Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence (DAAI) organization, you connect emerging AI capabilities to credible Hitachi Energy scenarios, build internal and external partnerships and coordinate selected validation work from first question to recommendation. You will also help shape how a newly established team works with its stakeholders.

How you will make an impact

• Proactively explore emerging AI capabilities (GenAI, agentic AI, multimodal models, selected ML), including through hands-on prototyping and AI-assisted coding. Identify those worth validating before any formal demand exists.
• Work with the AI Research Engineer and AI Experimentation Engineer to turn promising technologies into plausible Hitachi Energy scenarios and focused validation questions, distinguishing confirmed demand from opportunity hypotheses.
• Build working relationships with DAAI teams, Hitachi Group peers, strategic vendors, startups and approved suppliers, in line with procurement, confidentiality and security processes.
• Assess technology, vendor capability and practical constraints to decide which opportunities merit hands-on validation.
• Coordinate selected validations across the team (sequencing, evidence synthesis, demonstrations, next-step recommendations) without line-management authority. Keep a concise, visible pipeline with the Global Technology Validation Manager.
• Help establish the team's working practices, stakeholder interfaces and partnerships.

Your background

• A genuine passion for AI: you try new tools and models on your own initiative and can show a recent example of something you built or tried.
• 3+ years of experience in innovation, technology opportunity development, product or program management, AI, or strategy in a technology setting.
• Strong working knowledge of current AI with hands-on use of the tools. You can frame an unclear idea as a focused question with defined evidence.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without formal authority, in a team that is still shaping its processes.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. A degree in computer science, data science, engineering or business informatics is an advantage.

The final offer will be based on candidate location, skills and qualifications, experience, and aligned with internal pay structures.

This role may be open in multiple locations. If the salary information listed is not applicable for your current home location, salary details relevant to your location will be discussed with you at a later stage.

Our benefit offering is tailored based on your country of employment and generally includes:

• Competitive salary and incentives
• Well-being and care
• Paid and unpaid leave
• Flexible work options
• Benefits that support your financial security

You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.