AI Solution Manager– Oil & Gas

C3.ai is seeking a AI Solution Manager with operations, engineering, and maintenance skills and experience in Downstream and/or Petrochemical Processing. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of direct manufacturing or consulting experience delivering strategic, operational, management, and/or technical initiatives to oil and gas, manufacturing, and other clients, customers, and/or business partners as they analyze and make investments to optimize processes, and improve operations, energy management, supply chain efficiencies, profitability, and customer service.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize domain and technical expertise to understand client business initiatives and missions, and translate them to C3.ai product features and capabilities
• Utilize domain and technical expertise to understand the business landscape, how data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and fundamental engineering come together to solve challenging problems and recognize opportunities to increase availability and decrease unplanned maintenance to increase customer profitability.
• Contribute domain expertise to inform data science efforts and lead domain-specific customer conversations.
• Drive the delivery of solutions with compelling business value.
• Maintain close relationships with important clients and facilitate client communications, validate deliverables and drive external customer reviews.
• Facilitate project activities including (but not limited to) scoping workshops, requirements gathering sessions and documentation, use case definition, product specification, data and solution architecture design, validation, and compliance with industry regulations.
• Work closely with C3.ai product managers to build industry-leading applications, solutions, features, and capabilities.
• Utilize domain and technical expertise to drive configuration, customization, and extension of application functionality and end-user experience by working in partnership with the product management team to define new features and capabilities.
• Enhance C3.ai's external recognition and branding by writing thought pieces and supporting industry outreach, including presenting at relevant conferences and events.
• Provide objective advice, expert insights, and specialized skills to increase organizational knowledge, support projects, and solve customer problems.
• Drive internal process improvements and deliver best practices by applying functional and domain experience across multiple functional teams.
• Assist the sales team during opportunity assessment and capture, particularly as it relates to domain-specific requirements, regulations, deployment approach, timeline, and deliverables.
• Support the creation of a statement of work content, ensuring scope, deliverables, assumptions, risks, and resource needs are clearly defined and compliant with industry-specific rules and regulations.

Qualifications:

• Prior management or consulting experience in maintenance or process engineering.
• Minimum five years experience in manufacturing, engineering, or management, driving profitability and reliability improvements, or providing specialized consulting services to customers, clients, and/or business partners in Downstream and/or Petrochemical Processing.
• Master's degree recommended in Engineering, Geology, Operations Research, Computer Science, or other quantitative areas.
• Deep experience with industry tools such as OSISoft PI Historian, Aspentech PIMS, Aspentech Hysys, KBC Petrosim, Advance Process Control, and Real-Time optimization packages, and GE Digital Asset Performance Management from an operational, data, and/or analytical perspective.
• Deep experience working with analog process signals, enterprise asset management systems, engineering drawings, laboratory measurements, vibration measurements, and inventory statistics.
• Proven organizational and coordination skills with the ability to multi-task across several initiatives.
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with internal and cross-functional teams to discuss and define scope, objectives, project plans, and deliverables.

C3 AI provides a competitive compensation package and excellent benefits.