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Senior Manager, Solar Data & AI Strategy
Corning
Glendale, USA
Senior · 10+ years experience
Onsite
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the Solar enterprise data and AI strategy, architecture, governance model, and multi-year roadmap. Establish standards for data ownership, quality, metadata, lineage, security, access, master data, and lifecycle management. Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities across business functions, then lead discovery, prototyping, evaluation, and production delivery of solutions such as copilots, agents, predictive models, intelligent search, and decision-support tools. Provide hands-on guidance in prompt engineering, agent design, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and solution architecture. Own the Solar data and AI portfolio from ideation through deployment, adoption, support, and value realization, defining success measures and monitoring product performance and risk. Partner with enterprise data, architecture, security, privacy, and technology teams to align solutions with company standards and responsible AI policies, while communicating progress, priorities, dependencies, and investment needs to leadership. Build organizational capability by coaching data and AI leaders and practitioners, managing strategic partners and vendors, and establishing a sustainable internal operating model.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or a related field. 10+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, digital, AI, technology, or related transformation roles, including significant leadership responsibility. Experience developing enterprise data strategies, data architectures, governance operating models, and data or AI product roadmaps. Hands-on experience shaping, prototyping, or delivering AI solutions. Working knowledge of generative AI, machine learning, AI agents, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and AI solution architecture. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs, influence senior stakeholders, build business cases, prioritize investments, and realize measurable value. Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to executive, operational, and technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing, solar, semiconductor, or industrial operations. Experience integrating data and AI solutions with SAP, MES, manufacturing, quality, engineering, or supply chain environments. Experience with enterprise AI platforms, copilots, agent frameworks, cloud data platforms, vector databases, APIs, and modern data engineering patterns. Experience establishing responsible AI governance, model monitoring, production support, change management, and capability-building programs. Work Location This is a hybrid role requiring in-office work three days per week. Will need to be in one of these 3 locations or be open to relocation: Phoenix, AZ, Hemlock, MI, or Corning, NY. Success Profile The successful candidate is a pragmatic builder who combines strategic perspective, technical credibility, product discipline, and strong business partnership. Success includes establishing trusted data foundations, delivering adopted and supportable AI products, improving responsible AI capability, and achieving measurable gains in productivity, quality, forecasting, asset performance, or customer responsiveness. This position does not support immigration sponsorship. The range for this position is $138,838.00 - $190,902.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. A job that shapes a life. Corning offers you the total package. Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one. Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win. As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service. Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family. Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at [email protected] .
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Glass, Ceramics & Building Materials Manufacturing67200 employeesFounded 1851
Innovator in glass, ceramics, and materials science.
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