Company Description
QAD is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. At QAD, we help customers transform and innovate through modern cloud platforms, data-driven insights, and AI-enabled solutions. Our Engineering organization plays a critical role in delivering resilient, scalable, and high-quality platforms that power customer success worldwide.
Note: We are open to considering candidates who prefer to work remotely, with occasional travel to our Mumbai or Pune office as required.
Job Description
The Director - Enterprise AI Transformation will lead the internal AI leverage agenda across QAD by translating company-level productivity goals into a governed, prioritized, and measurable AI transformation roadmap. The person will own the overall operating model for internal AI adoption: prioritization, governance, reference architecture coordination, usage controls, value tracking, and execution cadence. They are not a PMO lead.



They are the person who ensures AI moves from fragmented functional experimentation into scalable, governed execution.
Key responsibilities
Enterprise AI leverage roadmap
Own the enterprise internal AI leverage roadmap across functions and BUs.
Prioritize use cases based on value, feasibility, functional readiness, data readiness, and risk.
Translate executive priorities and external diagnostic outputs into executable implementation waves.
Maintain a clear view of what is already underway, what should be accelerated, what should be stopped, and what requires leadership decision.
Governance and operating model
Define the internal AI governance model in partnership with IT, Data, Engineering, InfoSec, Legal, Procurement, and functional leaders.
Establish use-case intake, prioritization, approval, and escalation processes.
Create a risk-tiered governance approach: rapid-track low-risk use cases, structured review for medium-risk use cases, and formal approval for high-risk / sen

📌 Director - Enterprise AI Transformation (Pune)
🏢 QAD
📍 Pune