3M Director - Product Engineering Data AI 

United States, Minnesota 

395006772

Job title

Director - Product Engineering, Data & AI

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Director - Product Engineering, Data & AI, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Consults with leadership team to set medium- to long-term strategic direction and operating plans
• I nteracts with Stakeholders and Senior Leadership , to influence decision-making, operational/strategic
• Manage delivery of intelligence products including semantic models, knowledge graphs, generative insights, conversational interfaces, agents and algorithms.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, data science, business stakeholders, and product teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption.
• Define product strategy and roadmaps aligned to business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Establish iterative development practices to wireframe, prototype, pilot and scale products
• Establish Architectural Governance & Design Patterns to build sustainable, reliable and efficient data and AI products and services
• Establishing operational frameworks for product performance, data quality, and responsible AI practices.
• Lead leaders of multiple teams and mentoring talent , fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Tracking and communicating ROI , ensuring products deliver tangible business value and efficiency gains.
• Establish Innovation processes to stay up to speed with industry developments including realtime data processing, transformation, graphical processing, agentic AI, AI assisted development etc.

Key Responsibilities:

Consults with leadership team to set medium- to long-term strategic direction and operating plans for a medium to large complex IT business operation. Develops business strategies and creates solutions for complex and multi-faceted problems. Provides advice and counsel for decision-making, operational/strategic

Your Skills and Expertise:

• computer science, Data Science, Engineering, Business, or a science field ( completed and verified prior to start) .
• Ten (10) years of experience in technical data or software leadership roles such as Architect, Lead or Manager in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five (5) years of experience designing and deploying data models and cloud architectures for finance, supply chain, sales and marketing

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying and managing high volume AI/ML models in production
• 2+ years of experience building and deploying multiple Generative/Agentic AI applications at scale (1000+ daily users)
• Proven experience working in a platform-product operating model with expertise in scaling data and AI products, pipelines and solutions from 0 to 10,000+ users
• Prior experience with Agentic AI, Generative AI and AI/ML, including machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision.
• Prior Experience with modern data engineering concepts including Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, ETL/ELT, Graph Databases, knowledge graph, Data Services
• Understanding of regulatory, ethical, and governance considerations associated with AI products, ensuring responsible and compliant product delivery.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and project management tools

Work location:

• 3M Global Headquarters in St. Paul, MN (4 days in office)

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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