Senior Group Manager, AI Strategy

Hyundai Motor Company; Fountain Valley (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle lease allowance

Holiday pay

Vacation and sick time

Healthcare insurance

401K match

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Hyundai is seeking a Senior Group Manager, AI Strategy to drive enterprise Generative AI and agentic AI initiatives across Hyundai Motor North America. You’ll translate business priorities into scalable AI products, design the GenAI roadmap, and oversee governance, risk, and investment decisions.

You will lead cross-functional teams, build partnerships, and advance AI-enabled workflows while ensuring responsible AI practices and human oversight in collaboration with Legal, Privacy, Security, IT,

Qualifications

• Must be a high school graduate.
• Bachelor’s degree required in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, or a related field.
• Master’s degree strongly preferred in business, technology, analytics, AI, or a related discipline.
• Ten or more years of experience in AI, digital strategy, product management, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Generative AI and agentic AI strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Lead the identification, prioritization, delivery, and lifecycle management of GenAI products (chatbots, copilots, agents).
• Own the enterprise multi-agent framework and GenAI product architecture with reusable patterns and standards.
• Partner with business leaders to redesign workflows for AI-driven task execution and decision augmentation.

Skills

GenAI strategy

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, CS, IS, engineering, data science, or related field

Master’s degree in business/tech/AI or related discipline

Tools

None

Job description

At Hyundai, we’ve rethought our business and created cars that combine performance, quality, design and innovation into a complete package.

It’s time you rethink what you expect from an employer.

At Hyundai, we understand you're not just building a career – you're building a life. We believe in our people and realize that our success is a direct result of our commitment in offering you great opportunities for your career. If you would enjoy working in a dynamic environment and are looking for a chance to become part of a stellar team of professionals, we invite you to apply online today.

WORK MODEL

What You Will Do

• Senior Group Manager, AI Strategy is responsible for executing the enterprise strategy for Generative AI and agentic AI across Hyundai Motor North America (HMNA), translating business priorities into scalable AI products, automation, and measurable value.
• Establish the enterprise vision, roadmap, and operating model for GenAI products, including chatbots, and autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that augment decisions and execute work within business processes.
• Lead the transition from 'AI for insight' to 'AI for action' by embedding intelligent agents into workflows to plan, decide, execute, learn, and collaborate with employees under appropriate human oversight.
• Support the enterprise GenAI product portfolio, prioritizing use cases based on strategic alignment, business value, feasibility, risk, and readiness while ensuring effective investment and resource allocation.
• Champion responsible AI adoption by establishing policy, risk controls, data-grounding requirements, evaluation standards, human-in-the-loop safeguards, and lifecycle governance in partnership with Legal, Privacy, Security, IT, and Data Governance.
• Drive business integration and adoption.
• Build strategic partnerships across Hyundai Motor Group, HMNA business units, technology teams, and external providers to accelerate innovation, reuse enterprise capabilities, and maintain alignment with corporate strategy.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Define and execute the enterprise Generative AI and agentic AI strategy, roadmap, investment priorities, and operating model aligned with HMNA business objectives and Hyundai Motor Group direction.
• Lead the identification, prioritization, delivery, and lifecycle management of GenAI products, including chatbots, copilots, workflow agents, and autonomous or semi-autonomous multi-agent solutions.
• Own the enterprise multi-agent framework and GenAI product architecture, establishing reusable patterns and standards for LLMs, RAG, tool calling, orchestration, memory, grounding, evaluation, observability, and human oversight.
• Partner with business leaders to redesign high-value workflows for AI-driven task execution and decision augmentation, translating business needs into scalable products with clear ownership, controls, and adoption plans.
• Establish portfolio governance and stage-gate processes for intake, experimentation, production deployment, monitoring, scaling, and retirement of GenAI products and agents.
• Lead responsible AI governance in partnership with Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, IT, Risk, and Data Governance, including policy, model and vendor risk, data use, traceability, testing, approval, and incident management requirements.
• Set enterprise evaluation and performance standards for AI products, including task success, response quality, groundedness, reliability, safety, latency, cost, user adoption, automation rate, and business value realization.
• Drive platform and vendor strategy for LLMs and GenAI services, balancing capability, interoperability, security, data protection, scalability, cost, and avoidance of unnecessary vendor lock-in.
• Build an enterprise AI product community and center-of-excellence capability that provides reference architectures, reusable components, delivery playbooks, training, and coaching to enable business and technology teams.
• Measure success through task completion, automation rate, cycle-time reduction, employee adoption, quality, and realized return on AI investment.
• Develop executive-level reporting for the AI portfolio, communicating delivery status, value realization, adoption, risk, investment needs, dependencies, and strategic recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional teams and external partners, managing talent, budgets, delivery commitments, and organizational change while fostering innovation, accountability, and responsible experimentation.
• Monitor emerging GenAI and agentic AI capabilities and translate relevant developments into practical enterprise opportunities, standards, and roadmap recommendations.
• Local department operating authority as defined by HMA HR/Finance policy.
• Authority to prioritize minor issues and system fixes.
• Authority to recommend system architecture and needed projects.
• Final architecture and needed projects must be approved by Digital Business Planning Team, HMA ITSC, and HAEA.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Must be a high school graduate.
• Bachelor's degree required in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, or a related field.
• Master's degree in business, technology, analytics, AI, or a related discipline strongly preferred.
• Ten or more years of experience in AI, digital strategy, product management, technology, data, analytics, consulting, or related fields.
• Demonstrated leadership delivering enterprise AI, GenAI, intelligent automation, or digital products from strategy through scaled adoption.
• Three or more years of supervisory or cross-functional leadership experience desired.
• Experience leading complex transformations, portfolios, vendors, budgets, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong command of Generative AI and agentic AI concepts, including LLMs, RAG, tool calling, orchestration, multi-agent systems, grounding, memory, evaluation, and observability.
• Ability to translate enterprise strategy and business processes into scalable AI products, operating models, roadmaps, and investment priorities.
• Knowledge of AI product management, responsible AI, model and vendor risk, privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Experience defining outcome metrics such as task completion, automation rate, cycle time, adoption, quality, cost-to-serve, and ROI.
• Strong business case development, financial management, vendor management, negotiation, and portfolio governance skills.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, storytelling, change leadership, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Ability to lead, coach, motivate, and develop multi-skilled teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise cloud, data, API, integration, and AI platform ecosystems.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Windows-based computer programs. Relevant AI, cloud, product management, architecture, or responsible AI certifications are a plus.

What Hyundai Can Offer You

• Compensation Range: $181,900 - $246,100 annual base salary
• Monthly Hyundai/Genesis vehicle lease allowance (including insurance and maintenance)
• Holiday Pay - the company shuts down with pay between Christmas and New Years.
• Vacation and sick time off
• Healthcare insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
• 401(K) company match
• Additional 401(K) Employer Enhanced Contribution program – eligible after 1 year of employment, in addition to the regular employer matching contribution
• Basic life insurance, short- and long-term disability
• Mental health, wellbeing, and employee assistance program
• Health advocate (coordinate care and services, assistance with claim and billing issues, understanding Hyundai benefits)

Other Details

• Physical requirements: Normal office duties.
• Travel within US required.

Our Company adheres to the equal employment opportunity guidelines set forth by federal, state and local laws. The information requested on this form is sought in good faith and will not be used to discriminate against the applicant based on race, religion or creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, marital status, sex or gender (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, or related circumstances), gender identity, gender expression, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, family care or medical leave status, military and veteran status, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and local laws.