Director of Enterprise AI, Fictiv
$220-260k
10% travel
Office located in Oakland, CA
Global manufacturing and supply chain company
Open for applications
Global manufacturing and supply chain company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$220-260k
10% travel
Office located in Oakland, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify sourcing for customer manufacturing.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience leading an enterprise through technology and workflow transformations
- Proven success designing and running enablement or change management programs — training rollouts, adoption campaigns, internal champion networks
- Experience operating within technology governance frameworks, with the ability to build a business case that meets ROI, security, and architectural standards
- Firsthand, regular use of enterprise AI tools like Claude, Copilot, or similar platforms — leadership is actively experimenting and expects you to be ahead of them
- Track record of making hard prioritization calls with an executive audience while encouraging curiosity and experimentation in the teams closest to the work
- Full product lifecycle ownership on ambiguous business problems — discovery through measurement and iteration
- Ability to measure and report AI/automation impact in dollars
- Technical fluency sufficient to evaluate vendor claims, push back on engineering estimates, and earn the respect of senior engineers — you don't need to build things, but you need to understand what's being built
- Manufacturing, supply chain, or industrial operations experience is a big plus
- Work Authorization: Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)
What the job involves
- As the Director of Enterprise AI, you will own the AI strategy and adoption across MISUMI Americas
- This is a highly visible role at the center of our mission: to build the next-generation operating system for New Product Development. We use artificial intelligence, automation, and deep manufacturing intelligence to change how products are designed, sourced, and delivered globally
- You will be responsible for the AI “power tools” that make us faster and more competitive across all business functions, at enterprise scale
- You will drive how AI opportunities are discovered, evaluated, and prioritized across the company
- You will build and lead a team to assist you in coaching champions and accelerating adoption. And you will work with architecture and product to set the governance standards that move initiatives from prototype to production. AI is an organizational priority at MISUMI, which means leadership is actively engaged and business teams are open to experimentation
- We want to create a company where people can do the best work of their lives. AI is part of how we will get there: by giving people better tools, automating routine work, and making room for more creative and strategic contributions across the organization
- Own MISUMI Americas' enterprise AI portfolio: the tools, workflow automations, and agents that serve every function across the company
- Define the strategy and framework for how AI use cases are discovered, evaluated, and prioritized across the enterprise
- Measure the impact of AI initiatives by business outcomes (hours saved, risk reduced, revenue generated, etc.), not by usage metrics or tokens consumed
- Work with architecture and product leaders to establish governance standards for AI initiatives, such as when a prototype moves onto the product roadmap, and what tools business users can own versus what requires core platform development
- Build a structured AI champion network by identifying high-potential people in each function, developing their capabilities, and using them to surface new use cases and proof-of-concepts
- Design onboarding and enablement programs that get teams productive quickly, including prompt libraries, workflow guides, office hours, and self-serve resources
- Embed with business teams to understand their actual workflows on the ground and where AI can help
- Hire and lead a small team focused on coaching champions, enabling adoption, and helping business teams get value from AI tools
- Communicate AI strategy, progress, and business impact to executive leadership. Make the case for what to invest in, what to hold, and what to stop funding
- Partner with architects to shape MISUMI Americas' AI vendor and platform strategy: what LLM provider we standardize on, what automation tools we buy vs build ourselves, and how we stay flexible as better tools come to market
Our take
Fictiv is a digital manufacturing ecosystem that enables companies all over the world to acquire parts and components quickly. Its digital platform and global partner network provide a powerful palette of features, with the company positioning itself as the Amazon Web Services of hardware.
Also on offer from Fictiv is 3D printing, with the platform taking advantage of a range of technologies in this area. This makes it possible for businesses to obtain production-quality parts, without having to invest in tools and expertise.
The company has also leveraged technology in order to provide customers with access to a wide range of capabilities through components. With the 3D printed materials market set to reach $18 billion by 2030, Fictiv is well-placed to benefit from this significant growth, especially following its significant investment in accelerating product innovation.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2022
$100m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$35m
SERIES D
Total funding: $193m
Company benefits
- Monthly virtual work stipend
- Wellness perks
- Paid volunteer days
- Learning and development stipend
- Paid parental leave
- Equity options
Company HQ
West Oakland, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Dave Evans
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Fictiv's CEO, Dave is also the CEO of MISUMI USA. He is also an Executive Board Member at Fast Company, a Manufacturing Industry Contributor at Forbes Technology Council, and a Member of the Advanced Manufacturing Group at the World Economic Forum. Previously, he served as a Lead Hardware Engineer at Ford Motor Company.
Nathan Evans
(Co-Founder & Head of Climate/AI)Nathan earned a BA in International Relations and an MA in Chinese from Stanford University. He then worked briefly at Microsoft as an Area Marketing Manager. He also founded Citizens of Wine and worked as an Associate at Seven Hills before co-founding Fictiv in 2013.
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