Head of AI Philips China

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Job Title Head of AI Philips China Job Description Job Title Head of AI Philips China Job Description You own the AI agenda for Philips in China: which use cases we build, on which stack, to what standard, and how fast they reach production. This is a builder's role with an executive seat — you will sit in business reviews with China leadership and in architecture reviews with engineers, and you will be judged on shipped solutions with measured value, not on a portfolio of pilots. Your solid line runs to the Global Head of the Philips AI Center of Excellence, which gives you the global reference architecture, the AI Hub, the enterprise partnerships, and the Responsible AI framework. Your dual local line runs to a member of the China Management Team, which gives you the business mandate, the priorities, and the access. You will work in close daily partnership with Philips China IT — they own the local infrastructure, applications, and security landscape; you own the AI capability that runs on it. Neither of you builds alone. You will build and lead a small, senior, multidisciplinary team in China — AI and ML engineers, data scientists, AI solution architects, and a product-minded lead for adoption — deliberately lean, deliberately close to the businesses. What you'll build and drive 1. Solutions built with the businesses Work directly with Health Systems, Personal Health, and the commercial, supply chain, service, quality, and R&D functions in China to find, size, and sequence the AI use cases that matter — then build them. Typical territory: field service and installed-base support, sales and marketing personalization for Chinese digital channels, clinical and customer documentation, demand forecasting and supply planning, localization of global products and content, and consumer engagement in the WeChat ecosystem. Run a visible intake-to-production pipeline: triage, feasibility, build, evaluate, ship, measure. Kill what does not work early and say so. Co-own outcomes with the business sponsor. Every solution has a named business owner, a baseline, and a value measure agreed before you build. 2. A deliberate dual-stack AI architecture Global Philips stack: frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic consumed through the Philips enterprise AI Hub, Microsoft Azure and AWS AI services, Microsoft 365 Copilot at enterprise scale, and the global agentic patterns, evaluation harnesses, and paved-road SDKs from the AI CoE. Your job is to make these usable in China wherever they legally and technically can be. China-domestic stack: where the global stack cannot reach — for latency, data residency, cost, Chinese-language quality, or channel integration — build on leading domestic alternatives. Expect to work with Alibaba's Qwen family on Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio / Bailian), ByteDance's Doubao on Volcano Engine, DeepSeek, Tencent Hunyuan and Tencent Cloud, Zhipu GLM, Baidu ERNIE and Baidu AI Cloud, Moonshot Kimi, and Huawei Cloud with Pangu models and Ascend silicon where domestic hardware matters. Vendor choice is a decision you will own and defend on evidence. Channel and workplace integration where Chinese users actually are: WeChat and WeCom official accounts and Mini Programs, DingTalk or Feishu (Lark) workflows, and the local CRM, service, and commerce systems those channels feed. The layer that matters most: a model and tool abstraction — gateway, routing, prompt and evaluation management, tracing, and cost control — that lets a single use case run on a global or a domestic model without a rewrite. Portability is the architecture principle; single-vendor lock-in in either direction is the failure mode. 3. One team with China IT and the global CoE Partner with Philips China IT on infrastructure, identity, security, network, and app

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