Remote AI & Innovation Engineering Lead

J.D. Power; New York (NY); A distancia; USD 140.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

JD Power is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering – AI & Innovation, to lead the AI & Innovation function across Enterprise Architecture and AI initiatives. You will own people, roadmap, and outcomes, while collaborating with VP-level leadership and eight peer clusters to execute a bold AI strategy.

In this role you will manage and grow the team, deliver quarterly roadmaps, and report on PoC velocity, agent adoption, and AI standards compliance to the VP and Engineering leadership.

Formación

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of directly managing engineers.
• Experience standing up, scaling, or leading an AI/ML, platform, or innovation-focused engineering function, ideally with agentic AI or LLM-based systems.
• Track record of partnering with VP or executive-level leaders to translate strategy into an executable, resourced roadmap and to make prioritization calls when demand conflicts with capacity.
• Experience owning delivery metrics and KPIs and reporting them credibly to senior leadership on a recurring cadence.

Responsabilidades

• Hire, manage, coach, and grow the AI & Innovation function; own performance management, career development, and org design decisions as the team scales.
• Own the team roadmap: translate enterprise AI strategy into a quarterly roadmap for Innovation Crew and Launch Lab; manage trade-offs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Own the operating cadence end to end: serve as final approver on intake process and escalation point for pilots.
• Own DevOps, AppSec and Cloud Engineering partnerships to meet CI/CD, infrastructure, and security needs without bottlenecks.
• Own metrics and executive reporting: report PoC velocity, Power Agents adoption, engineering hours saved, and AI Standards compliance to leadership.
• Own the AI agent workforce lifecycle from onboarding to retirement, tracking performance and adoption against Power Agents metrics.
• Own cross-org relationships and ensure demand prioritization across engineering clusters, product, and business units.

Conocimientos

Software engineering

Engineering management

AI/ML leadership

Executive partnership

Metrics & KPIs

Herramientas

Power Agents

MCP/A2A integration

Descripción del empleo

JD Power is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering – AI & Innovation, to lead the AI & Innovation function across Enterprise Architecture and AI initiatives. You will own people, roadmap, and outcomes, while collaborating with VP-level leadership and eight peer clusters to execute a bold AI strategy.

In this role you will manage and grow the team, deliver quarterly roadmaps, and report on PoC velocity, agent adoption, and AI standards compliance to the VP and Engineering leadership.