Sr. Manager, AI and Automation Engineering - Remote

COMPENSATION: 180-200K + 15% AIP

Job Overview

This senior manager leads the engineering, quality, deployment, and production support of AI and process automation solutions across their full lifecycle within UNFI’s Technology organization. The role entails translating approved priorities and projects into executable development and deployment plans, managing development teams and vendor partners, overseeing rapid prototyping, and ensuring solutions are built, deployed, and supported in production with appropriate quality and operational discipline.

The position will support execution of UNFI’s AI and automation roadmap by managing delivery of practical use cases across business operations such as distribution, supply chain, warehouse, customer, finance, and enterprise support functions through leading a robust AI and process automation solution engineering practice. The role is expected to balance hands-on solution understanding with team leadership, production support ownership, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement of deployed automation and agentic AI capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full SDLC delivery of GenAI/Agentic and process automation initiatives aligned to priorities set by Technology leadership and business stakeholders.
• Own engineering execution and technical delivery quality for approved solutions, including build standards, code and configuration review, environment readiness, resource readiness, and direct oversight of third-party developers and offshore build partners to ensure work meets UNFI engineering, security, and support standards before release.
• Lead rapid prototyping efforts to validate feasibility, user experience, data availability, security considerations, cost assumptions, and operational fit before moving solutions into full development.
• Oversee solution engineering and development of agentic AI and automation solutions, including reusable development frameworks