Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Agricultural Production) (AI)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; travel to customer locations as required. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.

Salary: $130,000–$167,000 USD annually

Company

C3 AI develops enterprise AI platforms and industry-specific SaaS applications for digital transformation.

What you will do

• Own solution strategy, technical direction, delivery outcomes, and customer value from problem definition through production deployment and scale.
• Lead customer-facing discovery across agricultural production, supply planning, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, procurement, pricing, and fulfillment.
• Translate operational challenges into AI, machine learning, optimization, and software solutions with defined constraints, success criteria, and business value.
• Lead requirements gathering, solution architecture, configuration, validation, deployment, user adoption, and scale-out.
• Direct cross-functional teams of forward-deployed engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to develop reusable capabilities, methodologies, and solution patterns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain management, industrial engineering, computer science, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, operations, planning, logistics, procurement, pricing, operations research, or technically focused consulting.
• Hands-on experience in agricultural production or agricultural supply-chain operations, including grower or harvest planning, feed or raw-material optimization, commodity inputs, perishability, allocation, forecasting, yield, cost, inventory, or supply availability.
• Strong knowledge of supply-chain planning, manufacturing operations, enterprise data, analytical problem-solving, trade-offs, constraints, uncertainty, and optimization objectives.
• Experience leading complex customer-facing technical engagements and working with operational, technical, commercial, financial, and executive stakeholders.
• Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar supply-chain platforms; ability to work effectively with engineering and data-science teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, operations research, mathematical optimization, advanced analytics, or supply-chain digital-transformation solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, analytics, optimization tools, application configuration, or scripting.
• Experience deploying forecasting, inventory, pricing, production, scheduling, network optimization, or decision-support solutions.
• Experience scaling solutions across multiple plants, product families, regions, networks, or business units.
• Advanced degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain, analytics, or a related quantitative field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with C3 AI.
• Competitive compensation package with generous equity plan.
• Benefits package provided.
• Work involves collaboration with customer planners, manufacturing, commercial, procurement, logistics, technology, finance, and executive teams.