VP, AI & Automation

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud

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.