
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
Job Level
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AI StrategyAgentic Software EngineeringEnterprise AgentsWorkflow AutomationAI PlatformsAI Product DevelopmentAI TrainingAPIsData PipelinesCloud Infrastructure
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringCommunicationClient EngagementStrategic ThinkingOrganizational SkillsProblem SolvingTrust BuildingExpectation ManagementAdaptability