Director, AI for IT — Hybrid & Flexible

Rockwell Automation, Inc.; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance including Medical,

401k

Paid Time off

Parental and Caregiver Leave

Flexible Work Schedule

Job summary

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a Director to lead the AI4IT Office, redesign IT workflows with AI agents, and drive end-to-end adoption across the enterprise. You will manage a central office, embedded IT teams, and pilots to measurable, production-grade outcomes.

The role requires 12+ years in technical leadership, deep experience in IT transformation, and hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and governance frameworks for enterprise-scale impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI and agentic tools, including coding agents, copilots, connectors, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience across multiple IT functions such as software engineering, infrastructure and operations, service desk, security, cloud and FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI4IT program, roadmap, and results across all IT functions.
• Stand up the central office and operating model, and scale it to production.
• Publish the playbook extending AI-first ways of working beyond IT.
• Establish baselines and targets; own the value dashboard and reporting cadence.

Skills

IT leadership

AI & automation knowledge

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Generative AI tools

Agents and copilots

Job description

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a Director to lead the AI4IT Office, redesign IT workflows with AI agents, and drive end-to-end adoption across the enterprise. You will manage a central office, embedded IT teams, and pilots to measurable, production-grade outcomes.

The role requires 12+ years in technical leadership, deep experience in IT transformation, and hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and governance frameworks for enterprise-scale impact.