VP, AI Strategy & Delivery

Role overview

Set strategy and lead delivery across an organization’s AI, machine learning, and data science work for a commerce media platform. This senior, customer-facing leader will turn technical capabilities into trusted product experiences, guide an established global team through its next stage of growth, and connect AI investments to customer needs and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

- Represent the AI strategy in executive customer conversations, advisory boards, sales discussions, industry events, and partner engagements; understand customer priorities and adoption barriers. - Lead and scale teams spanning applied AI, machine learning, data science, experimentation, recommendations, optimization, forecasting, measurement, and workflow automation. - Clarify ownership, priorities, evaluation standards, and product impact across research, production systems, and AI agent initiatives. - Advance agent-based experiences that help users move from insight to action, defining where systems recommend, explain, act, escalate, and learn. - Guide experimentation and productization, with attention to model quality, explainability, trust, governance, evaluation, and adoption. - Partner with product, engineering, sales, customer success, and marketing teams to embed AI in core workflows and communicate its customer value.

Requirements

- At least 10 years of experience across AI, machine learning, data science, product leadership, enterprise software, advertising technology, commerce media, or related fields, including global work. - Track record leading AI, ML, or data science teams in a product-led organization and turning advanced capabilities into scalable customer-facing products. - Experience leading through senior technical and product leaders, coaching teams, and growing organizational capability. - Strong grasp of applied AI and areas such as generative AI, agent workflows, recommendations, optimization, forecasting, measurement, or decision systems. - Executive presence and communication skills to explain AI clearly and credibly to senior customers and partners. - Sound product judgment for selecting valuable use cases and willingness to travel for customer engagements and regular trips to China.

Benefits and work setup

The role is remote. Compensation includes a base salary range of $250,000–$300,000, with eligibility for an annual bonus. Benefits include flexible paid time off, holidays, health coverage, retirement matching, paid parental leave, volunteer time, and wellness and family-building programs.