Senior Manager, Business AI (Milwaukee, WI)

What you will do :

As Business AI leader youll lead a dedicated team focused on building innovative AI / ML products that drive business value across JCI. Youll serve as both technical architect and business strategist translating complex business requirements into well-architected AI solutions that address real market needs.

Your role involves partnering directly with business units to identify AI opportunities understand their challenges and help the team design AI products that solve critical business problems. Youll lead cross-functional product development teams to deliver scalable enterprise-grade AI solutions while ensuring architectural excellence and alignment with business objectives.

Youll be responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation through deployment working closely with business stakeholders to ensure AI products meet market demands and drive measurable business outcomes. Your team will leverage JCIs AI platform capabilities to build products that are both technically sophisticated and commercially viable.

How you will do it :

Lead and guide a cross-functional team of AI / ML engineers data scientists and product managers in delivering strategic AI products from concept to market.

Provide technical guidance and architectural oversight to ensure AI products are well-architected scalable and built using best practices and latest technologies.

Partner directly with business units to identify AI opportunities conduct needs assessments and collaborate on translating business requirements into viable AI product solutions.

Guide the team through agile product development processes while maintaining focus on business outcomes technical excellence and delivery timelines.

Facilitate business discovery sessions to uncover AI use cases assess feasibility and prioritize product development based on business impact and technical considerations.

Provide hands-on technical guidance in AI / ML architecture decisions technology selection and implementation strategies to ensure optimal product performance.

Partner with business stakeholders to define product success metrics validate market fit and ensure AI products deliver measurable business value and ROI.

Mentor and develop team members in AI / ML technologies architectural principles and business acumen to build organizational AI capabilities.

What we look for :

Required qualifications :

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

15 years of experience serving in the capacity of a technical Solution Architect in a cloud computing environment

5 years of experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) Agentic frameworks Agentic workflows Open Source Big Data Machine Learning and numerical programming frameworks.

5 years of experience with AI products technologies and infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications :

Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable distributed systems with ML technologies.

Experience building AI and ML solutions and operation frameworks and leveraging specific ML architectures.

Understanding of AI Models Large Language Models AI agents AI Agentic workflows AI specialized infrastructure and responsible AI practices.

Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver end to end solutions

Ability to quickly learn understand and work with new emerging technologies methodologies and solutions including leading a team of AI / ML experts.

HIRING SALARY RANGE : $131000 - 183000 (Salary to be determined by the education experience knowledge skills andabilities of the applicant internal equity location and alignment with market data.) This role offers acompetitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual group and corporate performance. Thisposition includes a competitive benefits package. For details please visit the About Us tab on the JohnsonControls Careers site at Controls International plc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view more information about your equal opportunity and non-discrimination rights as a candidate visit EEO is the Law . If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process please visit here.

Required Experience :

Senior Manager

Key Skills

Business Development,Forecasting,Program Management,AI,IaaS,Math,Business Management,Cost Accounting Standards,Relationship Management,Research & Development,Alteryx,Channel Management

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1