Director, AI4IT Office

Rockwell Automation • Mayfield Heights, OH

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, AI4IT Office leads Rockwell Automation’s program to redesign how IT works with AI. The goal is to double IT’s output at the same cost by rebuilding workflows end to end, with AI agents handling routine work and people setting direction, applying judgment, and owning results. IT will serve as the initial proving ground, with successful practices becoming a playbook for the wider enterprise.

The director owns the program, roadmap, and results across every IT function. The role establishes and leads a small central office, directs embedded teams in each IT area, and turns early pilots into measured, production-grade outcomes. The position reports to the Vice President, Strategy, Architecture, AI & Innovation.

The role is based on Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy: employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, unless a business obligation takes them out of the office. Travel, including international travel, may be required up to 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States; employment visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
• Ability to travel, including internationally, up to 25% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Typically 12 or more years of relevant technical leadership experience.
• Experience in IT leadership, enterprise transformation, or AI and automation programs.
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI and agentic tools, including coding agents, copilots, connectors, evaluation, and guardrails, with credibility among engineers and architects.
• Demonstrated ability to build baselines, value dashboards, and portfolio governance, and make decisions based on data.
• Experience across multiple IT functions, such as software engineering, infrastructure and operations, service desk, security, cloud and FinOps, or project delivery.
• Track record of leading through influence across matrixed organizations, including architecture, security, finance, and HR.
• Experience establishing a central office or center of excellence with embedded-team or rotation models.
• Experience leading change management and reskilling at scale.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with senior leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI4IT program, roadmap, and results across all IT functions as the single accountable leader for the mandate.
• Establish the central office and operating model, then scale the program from initial pilots to production across IT.
• Build and publish a playbook for extending AI-first ways of working beyond IT to the wider enterprise.
• Identify opportunities with IT leaders and maintain a ranked AI opportunity map for every IT function.
• Manage an AI portfolio covering software engineering and agentic coding, legacy modernization, service desk, IT operations, security operations, QA and testing, cloud cost optimization, project delivery, vendor management, and business analysis.
• Run stage gates for identifying opportunities, redesigning workflows, piloting, and scaling, making clear decisions to stop, redirect, or scale initiatives.
• Set baselines and quantified targets before workflows are redesigned.
• Own the value dashboard and regular reporting to senior IT leadership, tracking cycle time, quality, cost per unit, and customer outcomes.
• Report freed capacity each quarter and redeploy it into modernization, innovation, and new services.
• Maintain the approved-tool list and shared library of prompts, skills, agents, and reusable patterns.
• Partner with architecture, security, and design authority teams to ensure new tools, models, and patterns are reviewed and approved before production.
• Ensure every AI agent in production has a named human owner and a clear escalation path.
• Build embedded teams nominated from across IT for domain depth, peer credibility, and a builder mindset, using rotations that return people to their teams as multipliers.
• Grow a champions network and partner with training teams to deliver role-based AI fluency at scale.
• Champion a capacity-not-cuts approach and ensure reskilling paths accompany role changes.

Benefits

• Health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Flexible work schedule, coordinated with the manager to accommodate personal life.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director