Associate Director, Generative AI

As a Generative AI Solutions leader at PepsiCo, your role is to lead transformative AI initiatives across Consumer, Commercial, and Reporting functions. You will be responsible for designing scalable AI-driven business solutions, driving global change management, and aligning AI initiatives with enterprise goals. Your deep domain experience, cross-functional leadership, and ability to translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes will be key in this role. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the definition and execution of enterprise-wide strategies for Consumer AI, Commercial AI, and Reporting AI use cases. - Identify, prioritize, and solution complex AI-powered business opportunities aligned with PepsiCo's digital agenda. - Translate market trends, AI capabilities, and business needs into an actionable Generative AI roadmap. - Drive cross-functional solutioning using Gen-AI and Agentic AI capabilities and platforms of PepsiCo. - Collaborate with business, data, and engineering teams to craft impactful AI agent-based solutions for Commercial and consumer facing functions including Marketing & R&D. - Architect and design future AI solutions leveraging agentic frameworks. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the AI engineering team. - Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI and related technologies. - Drive innovation and continuous improvement in AI platform development. - Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for Responsible AI, data privacy, and business continuity. **Qualifications:** - 15+ years of experience in enterprise AI, digital transformation, or solution architecture, with a track record of leading AI-powered business programs. - Strong understanding of Consumer/Commercial business functions and how to apply AI to transform them (sales, marketing, supply chain, insights, reporting). - Demonstrated experience designing Gen-AI or multi-agent solutions, using orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Temporal. - Deep capability in AI-powered reporting, scenario modeling, insight generation, and intelligent automation. - Proven success in change management, stakeholder engagement, and global rollout of strategic programs. - Excellent communication and influencing skills.,