Senior Director, AI

Company Description

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

Position Summary:
We’re looking for a results-driven AI/Data Science executive to lead the strategic expansion of Fortune Brands’ Data Science and AI function. This leader will shape our AI and algorithmic capabilities to optimize Smart Home products and enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

At Fortune Brands, we've laid the foundation for AI success with a fully modernized data platform. Our certified, trusted datasets are housed in Snowflake, interoperable in a semantic model, and structured for immediate usability. The platform integrates with Microsoft Teams and Copilot, enabling AI-driven applications and intelligent agents to surface insights where the business already works. With strong data governance, semantic modeling, and real-time access to production-grade data, this role offers an exceptional opportunity for a visionary AI leader to quickly deliver value and shape the future of intelligent products and decision-making. 

Success in this role will be measured by the ability to deliver tangible business outcomes, drive cross-functional alignment, and scale predictive analytics solutions that support our digital transformation and growth strategy.

First 6-Month Performance Objectives:

You’re a strategic operator and hands-on leader who thrives on translating complex data into impactful business results. You bring technical credibility, business fluency, and a collaborative spirit. You’re equally comfortable diving into algorithms and presenting to the boardroom. Most importantly, you bring energy, vision, and urgency to scale data science as a true business accelerator.

• Define and align a roadmap of high-impact data science initiatives focused on data platform agent application, Smart Home product innovation, and strategic business needs.
• Take over leadership of the internal AI Community and drive organization-wide AI adoption through training, tools, and visibility of successful use cases.
•Identify and address gaps in infrastructure and processes to enable scalable, production-ready model deployment and MLOps.
•Deploy at least two high-value AI/ML use cases into production with measurable impact on business operations or customer experience.
•Establish an executive reporting framework to communicate data science outcomes and ROI across the business.
•Define and align a prioritized roadmap of data science initiatives tied to strategic goals, including Smart Home innovation and data platform agent applications.
Ongoing Accountabilities:
•Lead and mentor a high-performing data science team with domain expertise in digital marketing, product, and predictive analytics.
•Shape a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.
•Drive development and deployment of advanced algorithms supporting operational excellence and Smart Home product capabilities.
•Partner with product and marketing leaders to embed data science in customer-facing solutions.
•Champion transparency and a ‘measure everything’ mindset across the organization.
•Influence data strategy at the executive level, contributing to both immediate outcomes and long-term innovation.
•Scale the AI/data science function to meet evolving business priorities and organizational complexity.
•Stay current with advancements in AI/ML, customer analytics, and Smart Home technologies.

What Success Looks Like:
•Deployed algorithms generate measurable cost savings, revenue uplift, or customer experience improvements.
•Cross-functional stakeholders proactively engage with and rely on the data science team to inform business decisions.
•High internal satisfaction and low churn within the data science team.
•Visibility and credibility of the function is elevated with the executive team
 

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Physics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Decision Sciences, or a related quantitative field. Ph.D. preferred.
•10+ years of industry-related experience in data science or research, including academic and professional roles.
•5+ years leading data science teams delivering production-grade solutions.
•Executive-level communication skills, with a proven track record of influencing senior leadership.
•Strong foundation in statistical inference, machine learning, and Python-based development environments.
•Demonstrated experience building and deploying end-to-end machine learning applications, including integration with production systems.
•Proven ability to design and implement scalable, reusable MLOps and testing frameworks that accelerate experimentation and ensure robust deployment pipelines.
•Experience building a high-performance, mission-driven team culture.

Additional Information

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Additional Information:

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $190,000 USD - $330,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

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