AI Business Expert Operations

ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips Work where tomorrow is created. What must no smartphone miss? Exactly, the microchip – the heart of every electronically controlled system. Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured with ZEISS technologies. ZEISS is the technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of micro- and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

About us As part of the Operational Excellence division, you will shape the AI transformation in the production and operations environment as an AI Business Expert Operations. You will bundle requirements from the specialist departments, develop a cross-divisional AI roadmap from them and transfer individual use cases into scalable, sustainable AI solutions.

• Identification, evaluation and prioritization of AI use cases along the value chain with a focus on sustainable business impact.
• Translation of challenges, potentials and requirements from operations into scalable AI solution and target concepts.
• Development and implementation of a cross-divisional and consolidated AI roadmap for operations.
• Control of AI initiatives from the identification of relevant use cases to successful introduction and scaling in the operational environment.
• Ensuring the sustainable anchoring of AI solutions in operational processes, systems and organizational structures.
• Central interface between Operations, Digital, IT, R&D, as well as other implementation partners.
• Representation of operations interests in AI initiatives, building cross-divisional networks and promoting knowledge exchange on AI technologies.

• You have a successfully completed degree in business informatics, computer science, engineering, industrial engineering or a comparable field.
• Your several years of experience in digitalization, transformation or AI projects, ideally in a production or industrial environment, enable you to translate technological potential into concrete applications.
• With your sound understanding of digital technologies and modern AI solutions such as Generative AI, Agentic AI and Machine Learning, you recognize relevant application possibilities in operations processes.
• You know how to develop roadmaps and business cases for digital or AI-based solutions, combining strategic thinking with a hands-on mentality and consistent implementation.
• Communication and moderation skills characterize you just as much as the ability to involve, convince and drive topics forward through lateral leadership in a matrix organization across different organizational levels.
• A structured, analytical and solution-oriented way of working combines with strong implementation skills and genuine enthusiasm for innovation and the productive use of AI technologies.