Con Edison · 9 hours ago
Department Manager, Agentic AI Platform Development
New York, NY, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$160K/yr - $210K/yr
6+ years expCon Edison is a major utility company focused on delivering reliable services and innovative solutions. They are seeking a Department Manager for Agentic AI Platform Development to lead the strategy, governance, and delivery of AI capabilities, ensuring compliance and operational excellence in a regulated environment.
Utilities
Responsibilities
Own the enterprise agentic AI development strategy on Google Vertex AI aligned with Con Edisons grid modernization and reliability objectives
Establish standardized agent design and development patterns, including task decomposition, tool use, memory, coordination, and escalation logic
Define and govern agent orchestration frameworks, including multi-agent collaboration, workflow control, and human-in-the-loop integration
Provide leadership and performance management for agentic platform and engineering leads
Set and enforce agent development standards, including prompt design, policy enforcement, versioning, testing, and release management
Ensure runtime controls for agent behavior, including guardrails, fallback mechanisms, confidence thresholds, and kill-switch capabilities
Maintain governance over agent decisions, actions, and tool invocations, ensuring full traceability, auditability, and explainability
Oversee integration of agents with enterprise systems, operational technologies, and data platforms in a secure and resilient manner
Partner with Cybersecurity, Legal, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure agentic development complies with regulatory, privacy, and critical-infrastructure requirements
Manage Vertex AI environments, agent execution workloads, and cloud consumption tied to agent development and runtime operations
Enable safe deployment of agentic use cases, including operational decision support, workflow automation, and intelligent assistance
Act as the primary interface to business and operational stakeholders for agentic capability prioritization and delivery
Provide executive-level reporting on agent development maturity, operational readiness, risk posture, adoption, and realized value
Lead and develop a team of managers through coaching, performance management, and effective work assignment to drive aligned execution and business outcomes
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree and a minimum of 6 years full-time relevant work experience or
Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 8 years full-time relevant work experience
Driver's License Required
Builds and manages effective teams
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills
Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
Preferred
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Information Systems, related business or technology aligned field and a minimum of 6 years full-time relevant work experience
Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise scale agentic AI platforms on Google Vertex AI, including establishing standardized architectures, development patterns, and operating models, preferred
Proven ownership of the full agentic AI development lifecycle, from architecture design and agent frameworks to prompt and policy management, tool orchestration, runtime execution, monitoring, and continuous improvement, preferred
Hands on experience designing, deploying, and operating human in-the-loop and semi-autonomous intelligent agents in safety critical and highly regulated environments, preferred
Strong background defining and enforcing architecture standards for reliability, determinism, fallback behavior, traceability, explainability, and human override in AI driven systems, preferred
Experience serving as the primary technical authority for agentic AI architecture, guiding engineering teams on best practices, patterns, and risk mitigation strategies, preferred
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Cybersecurity, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and IT Infrastructure teams to ensure AI solutions meet security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, preferred
Experience implementing secure, auditable AI platforms, including access controls, policy enforcement, logging, monitoring, and incident response capabilities, preferred
Proven track record translating complex business and operational needs, such as grid operations, asset management, forecasting, customer engagement, and automation, into scalable AI solutions, preferred
Experience providing financial and operational stewardship for AI platforms, including budget management, cost optimization, vendor oversight, and capacity planning, preferred
Ability to communicate AI platform maturity, risk posture, and business value to executive leadership, supporting enterprise level decision making and long-term AI strategy, preferred
Benefits
Rich medical & pharmacy benefits, including vision benefits
Dental benefits
Health Savings Accounts
Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
401(k) with robust matching
Employer paid Pension Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a generous matching contribution
State of the art Employee Assistance Program
Paid Parental Leave
Generous paid time off plus paid holidays
Family support: emergency backup child, & elder care assistance
Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
Employee discount program
Commuter Benefits
Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
Life and Long-Term Disability Benefits
Company
Con Edison
We provide power to more than 10 million people and businesses across NYC and Westchester.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Joeann Walker
Policy Advocacy Leader, Economic Empowerment Platform, CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellow
Kimberly Strong
Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer
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