Senior Director (AI Strategy & Smart Manufacturing)

About our group: The Senior Director, AI Strategy & Smart Manufacturing at Seagate Technology plays a transformative leadership role in defining the long‑term AI vision for Global Operations. This role shapes how intelligent systems drive the evolution of manufacturing—from data‑driven insights to predictive, prescriptive, and increasingly autonomous decision‑making across Seagate’s global footprint. Operating at the intersection of strategy and deep technical expertise, the role leads the industrialization of AI at scale, translating emerging capabilities into resilient, self‑learning manufacturing operations. In doing so, the AI Strategist & Technical Lead ensures Seagate remains at the forefront of intelligent, adaptive, and future‑ready manufacturing. About the role - you will: Accelerate AI-driven innovation and transformation by building and maintaining a vision for how AI will drive value aligned with strategic objectives by working collaboratively with other leaders and Executives across the enterprise, with emphasis on manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and operational resilience. Foster collaboration to develop cross-organizational and functional alignment in accordance with the enterprise AI vision. Establish an internal and external AI ecosystem, building working relationships with vendors, partners, research institutes, regulators, industry associations, and other external stakeholders, including strategic technology partners supporting industrial AI, digital twin, and factory systems. Establish a world-class AI strategy for Operations that aligns with the company’s overarching enterprise vision, including goal setting and measuring AI initiatives, with success measured through operational KPIs such as yield, downtime, throughput variability, cost efficiency, and resilience, not pilots or proofs of concept. Define the operating model and delivery capabilities to engineer and operationalize AI initiatives, overseeing the development and execution o…