Director, Applied AI & Agentic Solutions

Coca-Cola; Georgia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola in Georgia, USA seeks a Director, Applied AI & Agentic Solutions to lead AI engineering across digital products, delivering scalable, secure AI solutions that drive business impact. You will coach AI engineers, partner with product, data science, and core tech teams, and translate AI strategy into actionable roadmaps and production deployments.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, advancing AI maturity and governance across enterprise platforms, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/AI/ML/SE/DS or related field.
• 8+ years in software/AI/ML/platform engineering roles.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or technical leads.
• Proven production AI delivery including LLM apps and intelligent agents.
• Experience across multiple products in a matrix organization.
• Expertise in agentic AI architectures, RAG, semantic search, vector databases, knowledge graphs.
• Hands-on Python and cloud-native development; Azure preferred.
• Experience implementing MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps in production.
• Experience establishing standards, reusable frameworks, accelerators, and best practices.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, cybersecurity, privacy, governance.
• Strong leadership coaching engineers and leading technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery and adoption of AI engineering capabilities across a portfolio of digital products, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to business priorities.
• Manage and develop AI engineering teams, providing coaching, technical direction, performance leadership, and career development.
• Partner with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Data Scientists, and Product Engineering leaders to prioritize and deliver high-value AI solutions.
• Translate enterprise AI strategy, architecture standards, and platform capabilities into actionable delivery roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Provide technical leadership on complex AI initiatives, including model architectures, agent workflows, retrieval strategies, evaluation approaches, and production deployment decisions.
• Drive adoption of enterprise AI standards, reusable patterns, development tools, and engineering best practices across product teams.
• Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI applications, LLM-powered products, and agent-based solutions.
• Ensure effective implementation of MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps practices, including lifecycle management, deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and governance.
• Establish engineering quality standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, testing practices, and operational readiness assessments.
• Partner with Core Technology teams to leverage enterprise AI platforms and foundational capabilities while identifying opportunities for enhancement.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with governance, security, responsible AI, privacy, and risk management requirements.
• Drive AI observability and operational excellence through monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Mentoring/coaching

Education

Bachelor's/ Master's in CS/AI/ML/SE/DS

Tools

Python

Azure

MLOps

LLMOps

AgentOps

Knowledge graphs

Job description

Coca-Cola in Georgia, USA seeks a Director, Applied AI & Agentic Solutions to lead AI engineering across digital products, delivering scalable, secure AI solutions that drive business impact. You will coach AI engineers, partner with product, data science, and core tech teams, and translate AI strategy into actionable roadmaps and production deployments.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, advancing AI maturity and governance across enterprise platforms, ensuring