AI Innovation Leader
About The Position
Moog’s AI Enablement Center of Expertise is seeking an AI Innovation Leader to lead enterprise AI experimentation and rapid innovation addressing complex, high-value business challenges. The role identifies opportunities where emerging AI capabilities can materially change company operations, tests ideas rapidly, and turns promising concepts into validated solutions. The leader owns the AI innovation pipeline from problem identification through experimentation, prototyping, validation, and transition, partnering with business and technology teams to move viable solutions into production and scale. This position is onsite at Moog’s Corporate Headquarters in East Aurora, New York. Candidates must live in the Buffalo, New York area or be willing to relocate; hybrid and remote schedules are not available.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Product Design, Business, Innovation, or a related field.
- Over seven years of experience in technology innovation, product innovation, R&D, advanced engineering, digital transformation, emerging technology, or related disciplines.
- Over three years leading innovation pipelines, rapid experiments, prototypes, proofs of concept, innovation labs, or accelerator programs, and working with generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, intelligent automation, or emerging AI technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to move complex business problems through hypothesis, experimentation, validation, and production-transition decisions.
- Must live in the Buffalo, New York area to work onsite or be willing to relocate; hybrid and remote work schedules are not possible.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or Azure AI.
- Experience with design thinking, human-centered design, or lean experimentation.
- Experience with AI-enabled rapid development, enterprise product transitions, or reusable and scalable innovation.
- Experience with major ERP transformations such as SAP.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a prioritized AI innovation pipeline focused on the company’s most complex challenges and highest-value opportunities.
- Partner with business leaders and Operating Groups to identify where AI can create differentiated value or fundamentally transform how work gets done.
- Establish criteria to prioritize, advance, pivot, scale, or stop experiments, balancing near-term opportunities with emerging AI capabilities.
- Lead rapid experimentation and prototyping by translating complex business problems into focused experiments with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and learning objectives.
- Leverage AI-enabled development approaches to accelerate prototyping and iteration while maintaining appropriate enterprise guardrails.
- Evaluate prototypes for business and user value, technical feasibility, scalability, risk, and reuse, and capture lessons from successful and unsuccessful experiments.
- Identify innovations ready to move beyond experimentation and establish clear ownership, requirements, and transition expectations.
- Partner with AI Product & Platform, Architecture & Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data, and business teams to transition validated innovations into scalable, sustainable production solutions.
Benefits
- Compensation package and bonus opportunities.
- Matching 401(k).
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan participation at select locations.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
- Flexible paid time off and holidays.
- Parental leave program.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage.
- Employee Assistance Plan and other supplemental benefit coverages.
- Tuition assistance.
- Mentorship and coaching opportunities.
- Leadership development and other personal growth programs.
- Employee Resource Groups.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
