VP, Marketplace – Large Language Models, Partnerships

Role Overview

• Own and lead a portfolio of LLM focused partnerships, including model providers, infrastructure platforms, safety/guardrail vendors, and model ops technologies.
• Translate market intelligence, client needs, and internal priorities into a comprehensive annual LLM partnership strategy.
• Identify, vet, and cultivate new LLM and gen‑AI partnership opportunities that enhance product innovation and enterprise capabilities.
• Serve as a senior subject‑matter expert on LLM technologies, while representing adjacent AI domains in partnership conversations.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to ensure LLM partnerships align with capability roadmaps, model requirements, and value‑creation goals.
• Work cross‑functionally across AI, media, creative, and commercial teams to design integrated go-to-market strategies leveraging LLM partners.
• Evaluate commercial viability and technical compatibility of LLM opportunities; ensure each partnership is optimized for performance, safety, and cost efficiency.
• Act as a problem solver and integrator, coordinating multiple stakeholders and maintaining forward momentum across complex partnership initiatives.
• Drive excellence in LLM partnership governance, reporting, compliance, and enablement across the organization.
• Represent the organization as an AI thought leader in market‑facing opportunities (panels, PR, partner events) within the LLM domain.
• Provide communication, documentation, and knowledge management for all LLM partnerships, ensuring transparency, alignment, and adoption across teams.
• Support client conversations and new‑business pitches as the LLM expert and AI partnership lead.

Requirements

• 10-12 years’ experience within the digital industry as a partnership or investment lead at a reputable agency or partner.
• 5+ years’ experience management of a team – with the ability to lead a highly successful team.
• Consistent exceptional project management, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communications, presentation, and analytical skills; must be comfortable working with and presenting sophisticated metrics to C-level.
• Ability to retain professionalism in all situations.
• Passion for problem-solving and collaboration across teams.
• Ability to translate complex ideas into actionable solutions.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave