Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Food Manufacturing)

About the role

C3 AI (NYSE: AI) is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise. Learn more at: C3 AI. C3 AI is seeking an Industry Solution Leader (ISL) for Food & Agriculture to lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for its clients with a specialization in Food Manufacturing. Industry Solution Leaders combine deep industry and engineering expertise with end-to-end ownership of customer solutions. They are expected to understand a customer's operations deeply enough to challenge assumptions, identify and quantify the highest-value opportunities, define the right technical solution, and lead cross-functional teams through design, deployment, validation, and scale. The role combines the responsibilities of a senior domain expert and solution leader. Industry Solution Directors work directly with customer engineering, operations, maintenance, and executive teams while leading C3 AI Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product teams, and other technical resources to deliver measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate brings significant hands-on experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, reliability, or maintenance and has the technical judgment, customer leadership, and delivery ownership required to lead complex enterprise AI solutions from problem definition through production. The ISL, Food & Agriculture - Food Manufacturing should have hands-on experience in food or beverage plant operations, with direct exposure to continuous/batch processing, packaging, and utilities, and ownership of OEE, yield, throughput, quality, sanitation/CIP, downtime, labor, or energy outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements, maintaining accountability from initial problem definition through production deployment and scale.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader