Sr Dir AI/ML Product

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Director, AI & ML Product will lead the development of outstanding AI/ML powered products to shape the future of SGWS by harnessing pioneering AI technologies. The Senior Director will work closely with digital product, engineers, scientists, designers, and business functions to deliver innovative and impactful AI/ML product solutions to drive business productivity and growth.

Primary Responsibilities

• Define strategic vision and roadmap for AI & ML products and being the evangelist for that vision across the organization.
• Collaborate with various partners in digital and business functions in capturing requirements and in crafting AI/ML infused solutions for the enterprise.
• Work with the science and engineering teams to build and deliver premier AI/ML and Gen AI-powered applications.
• Define and measure business outcomes and metrics from the deployed AI & automation solutions.
• Drive user studies, product evaluations, and collaborate with digital product teams to provide valuable feedback and help improve AI products.
• Stay at the forefront of AI and technology trends and serve as an AI leader within the organization on AI integration.
• Define high level standards, benchmarks, and organizational policies around safe and ethical use of AI.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or other equivalent quantitative fields.
• 7+ years of experience in product management with ML and AI science and engineering background.
• Experience in building AI-powered customer facing or employee facing products by working with engineers, designers, and data scientists resulting in significant business impact.
• Demonstrated hands-on product management expertise involving AI, ML, generative AI, and statistical modeling.
• Strong experience in capturing and analyzing requirements and translating them into a viable product through agile development.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture, data ecosystem, ML platform and workflow.
• Experience with LLM and Gen AI models and frameworks.
• Self-starter and self-motivated with the proven ability to deliver results in a high-energy environment.
• Strong capability to articulate complex concepts and influence various audiences.
• Works effectively cross functional teams to build trusted partnership.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.  Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees.  Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer’s pay bands or ranges.