VP Solutions Management and Development

What success looks like in this role:

• Portfolio Strategy and Innovation Set the vision, strategy, investment priorities, and multi-year roadmaps for the global CAI offering portfolio, aligned with revenue, profitability, market-share, and client-outcome goals.
• Own each offering’s scope, value proposition, target buyers, business case, lifecycle, release plan, and retirement decisions.
• Use market, advisor, alliance, startup, client, and win/loss signals to prioritize investments and keep the portfolio differentiated and relevant.
• Make AI-first the portfolio design principle by embedding AI capabilities into offerings and coordinating features with Global Innovation & Architecture and other AI teams.
• Solution Development and Delivery Lead a Solution Development team that remains 60–70% billable while delivering pilots, proofs of concept, accelerators, and other targeted client projects.
• Direct the remaining team capacity toward reusable intellectual property, including agents and AI assets built on standard platform architectures and released as managed solution versions.
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineering and Delivery on client deployments, quality, utilization, and the conversion of proven work into scalable offerings and client proof points.
• Maintain demonstrations and sandbox environments for Sales and Presales and support early client rollouts.
• Architecture, Quality, and Governance Guide the design of secure, scalable, modular, and delivery-feasible solutions, reference architectures, blueprints, and reusable components.
• Apply AI testing and governance standards before client use and ensure compliance, security, quality, and operational readiness across the portfolio.
• Use client delivery and win/loss insights to improve the backlog, roadmap, solution packaging, and standard offerings.
• Commercialization and Support of Go-to-Market Own the offering business case, partnering with Finance, Pricing, and Delivery to establish cost, margin, pricing guidance, and ROI.
• GTM translates these inputs into price books and deal pricing.
• Provide Presales and Delivery with offering guidance, demos, FAQs, runbooks, and release education.
• GTM, Marketing, and Sales Enablement own sales collateral and seller training.
• Advise strategic pursuits on solution feasibility, differentiation, and delivery risk.
• GTM owns pursuit strategy and execution.
• Use customer, market, and sales insights from GTM to shape offerings, prioritize roadmaps, and validate market fit.
• Solutions Management owns the offering—strategy, definition, roadmap, lifecycle, economics, and readiness.
• GTM owns the route to market—positioning, launch, campaigns, sales enablement, pipeline, and pursuits.
• Cross-Functional and Client Leadership Establish clear decision rights across Go-to-Market, Delivery, Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Marketing, and shared functions to support fast, disciplined execution.
• Represent the portfolio with clients and senior stakeholders, adapting solutions based on market conditions, competition, deal dynamics, and executive feedback.
• Work closely with Forward Deployed Engineering, Global Innovation & Architecture, AI Infrastructure & Hosting, the AI Practice, and scaled-delivery teams.
• Team Leadership Build and lead a high-performing global team of solution professionals, technologists, architects, and subject matter experts with strong technical depth and client-facing capability.
• Coach the team in solution design, financial modeling, offering management, delivery quality, and executive client engagement.
• Align organization structure, skills, capacity, and ways of working to support rapid innovation and business growth.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• 20+ years of experience in information technology services, consulting, architecture, presales solutioning, or related leadership roles, including 12+ years of deep technical experience across cloud, applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, and AI.
• Demonstrated ownership of a global offering portfolio, including strategy, business cases, roadmaps, release management, commercialization, and retirement decisions.
• Experience building, testing, governing, and moving machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions into production; recent AI certifications are preferred.
• Experience leading a billable solution development team against utilization, delivery quality, and reusable-asset goals.
• Proven success leading high-performing global technical teams and working across Sales, Delivery, Engineering, Finance, Pricing, Legal, Marketing, and governance functions.
• Strong financial and commercial judgment, including pricing, cost modeling, margin management, and investment prioritization.
• Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence senior leaders and clients.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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