AI Program Manager

AI Program Manager

As the AI Program Manager in Milwaukee, WI, you will build and lead a portfolio of AI initiatives focused on: Automating repetitive tasks, eliminating process waste, and driving measurable business outcomes. You will partner cross-functionally with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to: identify high-impact problems, deliver results quickly, and scale successful solutions across plant sites. All initiatives must align with Quality and EHS requirements, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, procedures, and documentation standards.

AI Program Manager Responsibilities: Conduct stakeholder interviews to understand business goals and constraints, translate high-level objectives into actionable AI project requirements, build business cases by establishing performance baselines and quantifying expected benefits, prioritize AI initiatives based on business value, impact, labor hour avoidance, and risk mitigation, develop and manage an AI roadmap with short, iterative deliverables, execute stage-gated delivery aligned to COE governance, establish decision forums, risk controls, and measurable milestones, partner with Business and IT to build data infrastructure and tools supporting the AI roadmap, transition ownership of AI agents and workflows to business stakeholders, drive change management to ensure AI adoption becomes embedded in daily operations, track and report value through measurable metrics, upskill the organization by sharing AI knowledge, coaching stakeholders to identify new use cases, partner with Legal and HR on AI usage and data privacy policies, ensure compliance with IT cybersecurity and corporate risk guidelines.

Requirements for AI Program Manager: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field, 3+ years of experience in business analysis, data management, or BI, strong understanding of data governance principles and data warehousing concepts, experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Fabric, Power BI) preferred, knowledge of master data management (MDM) and data cataloging tools preferred, manufacturing or industrial background, Lean / Six Sigma certification, experience embedding AI into continuous improvement programs, experience with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI / Foundry.