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We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Senior Leader to establish and lead a new, multi-disciplinary AI Group in China. This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role pivotal to ensuring AVEVA’s AI strategy, existing and roadmap AI capabilities are aligned with the unique needs of the China market and can deliver market defining AI solutions and global and local stakeholder engagements. We are specifically keen on individuals with deep understanding of frontier and emerging AI and ML technologies and can bridge across advanced AI, ML product management, engineering, and AI business.
AI Group Strategy & Planning: Define and drive the China-specific AI strategy (across technology, portfolio and business) in alignment with global objectives. Identify emerging AI technologies and market opportunities and translate them into actionable, differentiate AI portfolio roadmaps and strategic external partner plans
Team Formation & Leadership: Recruit, onboard, and develop a new AI Group team in China. Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and AI excellence. Provide coaching, career development, and succession planning
Source & Translate Emerging AI Technologies: For Industrial AI applications, deeply understand AI and ML advances, navigate ambiguity and make thoughtful trade-offs in both 0 to 1 and ongoing lifecycle management environments to identify opportunities where AI can help address value-driven and real-world use case for industrial customers in the China market
Requirements Management: Lead the creation and prioritization of AI requirements documents and end-to-end roadmap, prioritizing features, data constraints, model performance, and plans based on customer use cases, scientific and technological advancements, and broader industrial sector analysis. Ensure clarity and alignment across engineering, product, and commercial teams
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner cross-functionally (Portfolio, R&D, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) to ensure competitive and successful AI roadmap, capabilities launches, lifecycle management, and AI business health.
Recent experience with modern AI paradigms such as world models, foundation models, and multi-modal language models; agent-based systems and orchestration; and context retrieval and augmentation techniques
Experience in responsible deployment practices, model drift mitigation, privacy-preserving federating learning, and AI governance best practices
Expertise in Python and deep experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., Jax, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and state-of-the-art ML techniques (building, training, evaluating, deploying ML models)
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional and matrixed teams, and present complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Desired skills and Competencies:
Experience in at least two regulated industries (e.g., life sciences, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, asset-intensive industries, material science, etc.)
Experience deploying ML models in China and global cloud environments (Ali Cloud, AWS, GCP or Azure) in addition to work across on-prem, edge, and cloud-connected architectures
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.
Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.
