
Senior Vice President, AI Innovation
Vista Equity Partners
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $350,000 - $450,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own the strategic direction and end-to-end delivery of Agentic Factory engagements across the portfolio, ensuring agentic AI becomes a durable competitive advantage for Vista companies.
- Partner with portfolio company senior leadership — including CEOs, CTOs, and CPOs — to identify and prioritize the highest-value agentic use cases aligned with product roadmaps, revenue objectives, and operational efficiency goals.
- Lead and govern rapid proof-of-value sprints that demonstrate measurable business impact, then drive portfolio companies from prototype through production at enterprise scale.
- Oversee AI maturity assessments across the portfolio using Vista’s scoring rubrics, identifying gaps, setting improvement priorities, and ensuring tailored roadmaps translate into execution.
- Ensure architectural quality across portfolio engagements, setting the standard for AI platform performance, scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Champion the Agentic Factory methodology across Vista’s ecosystem — refining it based on delivery learnings and scaling what works across new engagements.
- Create a culture of technical delivery, excellence, and innovation.
- Set and evolve Vista’s technical standards for AI platform architecture across the portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of experience in AI and enterprise technology, with a demonstrated track record of leading AI initiatives from concept to production at scale.
- Deep recent experience (3+ years) in generative AI and agentic architectures in live production environments, not just prototypes.
- Proven ability to lead and grow high-performing technical teams across matrixed or multi-client environments.
- Extensive experience partnering with senior leadership teams — including C-suite executives — to drive AI adoption within complex organizations.
- Strong understanding of public cloud AI services and the ability to set vendor-agnostic architectural standards across a portfolio.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills — able to engage credibly with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
- Experience in private equity, management consulting, or multi-client environments serving enterprise software companies is highly desirable.
- Ability to travel as required to portfolio company sites.
Benefits
- Annual performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Artificial IntelligenceData ScienceGenerative AIAgentic ArchitecturesAI Platform ArchitectureEnterprise TechnologyAI Maturity AssessmentsTechnical DeliveryOperational EfficiencyScalability
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationPresentationInterpersonal SkillsTeam GrowthStrategic DirectionInnovationCollaborationEngagementC-suite Interaction