AI Co-Innovation Engineering Program Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of programs end-to-end: plans, milestones, performance metrics, risks, and resource needs across complex, multi-stakeholder work.
• Define and run the communication plan for each program — landing strategy, rhythm of business, executive updates, and decision logs — so the right people have the right context at the right time.
• Establish objectives and success criteria with stakeholders, hold teams accountable, and shepherd decisions to closure across business unit product, business unit engineering, AI COE/AI R&D, partner engineering, and executive sponsors.
• Use OKRs, KPIs, and other performance metrics to demonstrate program value and business impact, adapting communication style to each audience.
• Recognize process gaps and inefficiencies, and drive optimization across the portfolio.
• Help shape the technical strategy for programs run jointly with strategic technology partners, in close partnership with the AI Engineering Programs Manager and engineering counterparts.
• Advise internal stakeholders on technical feasibility and trade-offs as we build with and on top of partner technologies in areas like agentic frameworks, robotics, and applied AI.
• Maintain working knowledge across modern AI systems — LLMs, agentic frameworks, ML pipelines — and adjacent areas such as robotics and autonomy stacks.
• Read technical design documents critically and ask questions.
• Promote reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns from partner engagements so learnings flow back into the broader AI & Autonomy function.
• Understand the technical and business drivers of our strategic technology partners and translate them into a partner engagement strategy aligned to our roadmap.
• Jointly qualify and prioritize partner opportunities with the AI Engineering Programs Manager, and develop the technical engagement plan that supports each one.
• Engage internal teams — engineering, product groups, R&D — to confirm capability to execute and to unblock technical and business obstacles as they surface.

Essential Qualifications

• You will have Bachelor's Degree in relevant field.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required.
• We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred

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• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of program management experience in software, AI, or other deeply technical environments.
• Run complex, multi-stakeholder programs with engineering teams as a primary audience.
• Track record of producing executive-quality updates and driving alignment in writing.
• Background as a software engineer, AI/ML engineer, or in an adjacent technical role.
• You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

What We Offer

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.

Additional Information

• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.
• This position is part of a job family.
• Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.
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• Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.