Livefront

VP, AI & Automation

Livefront

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $300,000 per year

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About the role

  • Build and lead Livefront’s AI & Automation practice
  • 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.
  • Drive internal AI adoption, training, and transformation
  • 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.
  • Shape market-facing offerings and go-to-market motion
  • 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.
  • Build Livefront’s AI platform, IP, and accelerators
  • 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 delivery on high-impact work
  • 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 AI-led client transformation and revenue growth
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
Benefits
  • We go out of our way to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally based on merit, competence, and qualifications.
  • We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and consider all qualified applicants.
  • Don't worry, every application will be reviewed by a human.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI StrategyAgentic Software EngineeringEnterprise AgentsWorkflow AutomationAI PlatformsAI Product DevelopmentAI TrainingAPIsData PipelinesCloud Infrastructure
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringCommunicationClient EngagementStrategic ThinkingOrganizational SkillsProblem SolvingTrust BuildingExpectation ManagementAdaptability