VP, AI Solutions

Locations: San Diego, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; Covington, KY; Charleston, SC; Nashville, TN. Mindgruve is a global digital agency comprised of strategists, creatives, media experts, data scientists, and engineers, focused on accelerating business growth through marketing and digital transformation. Ranked in the top 3% of Google Premier Partners and recognized by Inc. 5000 and Adweek’s 75 Fastest Growing Companies, we recruit “A” players to join our team. Our rapid growth is driven by our strongest asset—our people. Teams collaborate closely with clients to set clear goals and objectives, delivering exceptional results. Mindgruve values every opinion and empowers employees to contribute ideas and drive success across a variety of industries. We are seeking a visionary and commercially minded VP, AI Solutions to lead the evolution of our AI capabilities, enterprise solution strategy, and client‑facing initiatives. This leader will define how artificial intelligence powers the future of media, creative, commerce, analytics, and business intelligence organization‑wide and for our clients. Ideal candidates have held senior AI solutions leadership roles within a large independent agency or a holding‑company agency environment and possess hands‑on engineering experience building solutions. Deep expertise in applying AI technologies to predictive marketing, customer intelligence, media optimization, creative automation, and enterprise analytics ecosystems is required. The role combines strategic thinking, technical fluency, and commercial acumen, serving as both an internal innovation leader and an external executive advisor to enterprise clients. What You’ll Do Here Define and lead Mindgruve’s AI solutions vision across media, creative, commerce, analytics, and operational workflows. Identify emerging AI technologies, models, and platforms that create competitive advantages for clients and the organization. Leverage scalable AI frameworks that enhance predictive marketing, audience intelligence, personalization, and business forecasting. Support AI‑enabled solution offerings that integrate with Mindgruve’s existing media, creative, commerce, and data capabilities. Support Mindgruve’s AI Predictive Marketing and Business Intelligence platform to improve customer segmentation, attribution modeling, forecasting, and marketing performance optimization. Partner with analytics and data engineering teams to improve enterprise reporting, business intelligence, and decision‑support systems. Drive innovation around AI‑powered insights, automation, and real‑time optimization. Help architect enterprise data ecosystems that support AI readiness and intelligent decision‑making. Develop AI‑driven approaches for media planning, optimization, audience targeting, and performance forecasting. Help evolve AI‑assisted creative development, content generation, personalization, and dynamic creative optimization. Advance AI applications for commerce strategy, retail media, customer journey optimization, and conversion performance. Evaluate and implement generative AI tools that improve operational efficiency and client outcomes. Serve as a senior executive advisor to enterprise clients on AI transformation and innovation strategy. Support business development efforts by shaping AI‑focused solution narratives and participating in high‑level pitches and strategic engagements. Translate complex technical concepts into practical business outcomes for executive stakeholders. Partner with leadership to commercialize AI capabilities into scalable revenue‑generating offerings. Establish AI governance frameworks related to data integrity, security, compliance, transparency, and responsible AI usage. Evaluate AI vendors, platforms, and partnerships to ensure scalability, security, and interoperability. Build cross‑functional collaboration between strategy, analytics, engineering, media, and creative teams. Help create organizational education and enablement around AI adoption and best practices. We Need a Person With 12–15+ years of experience across AI, data, analytics, digital transformation, or marketing technology leadership. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Previous experience with Claude, OpenAI and other AI solutions. Previous leadership experience at a holding‑company agency or a large independent media, creative, or integrated agency. Proven experience leading AI initiatives tied to predictive marketing, business intelligence, customer analytics, or enterprise marketing transformation. Strong understanding of how AI impacts: Media strategy and optimization. Creative automation and personalization. Commerce and customer journey performance. Marketing analytics and business intelligence. Experience with enterprise AI ecosystems, martech/adtech platforms, cloud‑based data environments, and analytics frameworks. Demonstrated ability to bridge technical AI concepts with executive‑level business strategy. Experience supporting enterprise sales efforts, solution architecture, or client transformation engagements. Compensation Salary: $175,000 – $250,000 annually. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. For eligible full‑time employees we offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a flexible spending account; voluntary life and accident plans; and a 401(k) retirement plan with matching. We have six office locations in the US: San Diego, Los Angeles, Covington, Denver, Nashville, and Charleston. We are seeking local candidates (or those open to relocation) who can work collaboratively in one of our offices; some roles may be eligible for remote work. Bonus points for bilingual Spanish and/or Portuguese. Mindgruve is an equal‑opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr Mindgruve