Vice President of AI & Automation, Livefront

• You’re a rare blend of technologist, practice builder, and go-to-market leader—someone who can see where AI is going, translate that into compelling client outcomes, and build the internal capabilities to deliver consistently at a high bar
• You have excellent technical depth across modern AI systems and a strong intuition for where the market is headed
• You can engage deeply on AI architecture, data strategy, security, model/tool selection, evaluation, and operationalization while also zooming out to shape service offerings, accelerate sales motions, and grow a high-performing team
• You’re equally comfortable in a whiteboard session with senior engineers as you are in a room with client executives
• You are credible, pragmatic, and persuasive
• You communicate clearly, manage expectations well, and can defend technical and strategic choices with confidence
• You want to help shape what AI consulting and product delivery looks like at a firm known for excellence, and you want to do it with people who are deeply collaborative, pragmatic, and fun to work with
• Significant experience building and shipping modern software systems, with deep expertise in agentic systems, LLMs, and modern AI architectures
• A strong foundation in architecture and systems thinking, including APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment, observability, and security
• Credibility across disciplines: data engineering/analytics, product strategy, and experience design as they intersect with AI product development
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale a practice (or a strong trajectory as a high-performing leader ready to grow into broader practice ownership)
• Demonstrated ownership of both delivery and go-to-market outcomes
• Experience operationalizing new ways of working across an organization
• Strong client presence: you can lead executive conversations, build trust quickly, manage expectations, and translate complex concepts into clear business value
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively
• A keen sense for security and risk: you see around corners, anticipate failure risks, and build responsible guardrails into solutions
• Above-average discipline, personal organization, and the ability to create clarity amid ambiguity
• If you’re less hands-on day-to-day, you should be a proven practice builder with a track record of scaling delivery capability and winning/expanding work
• If you’re more hands-on, you should be hungry to grow the broader leadership and go-to-market dimensions of the role—while still being exceptional in front of clients
• Either way, this role requires executive-level client presence, strong technical credibility, and the ability to build momentum

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Vice President, AI & Automation to join our leadership team. This is a senior leadership role with the opportunity to work remotely
• Own the evolution and growth of Livefront’s AI & Automation service line, including: AI Strategy & Readiness, Agentic Software Engineering, Enterprise Agents & Workflow Automation, AI Platforms & Context Services Engineering, AI Product Development, and AI Training & Enablement
• Own the full portfolio of AI workstreams across the company, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and execution across internal enablement, platform/IP development, client delivery, and market positioning
• Define what “excellent” looks like for AI delivery at Livefront: playbooks, reference architectures, evaluation approaches, governance, security posture, and operational standards
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of AI leaders and practitioners; establish career pathways and raise the technical bar across the organization
• Help Livefront evolve all service lines (Digital Strategy & Product, Data & Analytics, Experience Design, Software Engineering, Data & Analytics) to better leverage AI
• Own internal AI adoption across Livefront, removing barriers to usage and ensuring AI becomes a default part of how teams work. 
• Establish and scale internal training programs and certification pathways
• Ensure internal teams have access to best-in-class tools, documentation, reference implementations, and accelerators
• Help embed AI expectations into roles, performance criteria, delivery standards, and career development pathways
• Track the market direction of AI—platforms, models, tooling, regulations, and emerging patterns—and translate that into clear, differentiated offerings clients can buy
• Partner with Livefront leadership to mature our go-to-market approach for AI services: positioning, packaging, sales enablement, pursuit strategy, and thought leadership
• Build and manage strategic partnerships across AI frontier labs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake), and cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Microsoft)
• Ensure a consistent pipeline of AI-forward case studies and proof points, working across delivery and marketing to translate client work into compelling stories that support sales and positioning
• Own and drive thought leadership efforts that establish Livefront as a leader
• Serve as a trusted executive presence in client and prospect engagements by leading discovery, shaping strategy, articulating value, and aligning stakeholders
• Own the development of Livefront’s agentic product development framework
• Drive the creation of reusable AI assets: agents, accelerators, frameworks, and internal tools that compound delivery efficiency and differentiation
• Lead and/or sponsor key client engagements involving complex AI architectures, agentic systems, and enterprise-grade implementations
• Run short, focused experiments when needed to evaluate new tools and approaches, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery
• Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, observable, secure, and governed
• Drive adoption of agentic engineering and AI platforms in client delivery in a repeatable, scalable way
• Oversee the development of custom enterprise AI agents for clients
• Lead and scale our client training & workshops
• Build a growing practice with strong leadership support
• Influence how Livefront evolves across strategy, design, data, and engineering in an AI-native world
• Work with high-impact clients and products that reach millions of people
• Teach, mentor, and lead in a culture that values craft, curiosity, and continuous improvement

• When applying, please include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain (e.g., GitHub, LinkedIn, etc)
• Our hiring process moves quickly and consists of several stages for candidates who capture our attention with their initial submission, sometimes including but not limited to a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise, which you'll have up to a week to complete