Senior Vice President, Solution Design

Company description

Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world’s most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry’s start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media’s powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we “Bring HEAT to Brands.” No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today’s most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media.

Overview

Publicis Groupe empowers clients with the highest fidelity audience and analytics capabilities that predict, power, and prove business outcomes.

With our investments in Epsilon, Sapient, Marcel, and now MRCL, we power creative and media personalization at scale for our clients. Our ‘Groupe Solutions’ team is an accelerant at the center of the Groupe. Made up of audience strategists, data scientists, and analytics practitioners, we partner with Groupe leaders to win or retain strategic accounts with industry-leading data, tech, audience, and analytics solutions.

What is MRCL?

MRCL is Publicis Groupe’s long-term strategic initiative to develop an AI-powered data and intelligence layer across the Groupe, bringing together all our data and platforms under one single entity. The Groupe Solutions team is responsible for bringing this to life to enhance our agency talent with the highest fidelity data and best applications to power personalization and brand growth.

Responsibilities

The SVP, Solution Design will partner across the broader company to assist in designing platform and service solutions through the management of cross-functional, consulting-style projects. The ideal candidate will:

• Understand strategy, media, and technology, and have direct experience with business development, project management, product marketing, agency service frameworks, and organizational design.
• Lead in strategic vision for the development of MRCL solutions on high-priority clients
• Deliver solution design in presentation and written deliverables to both clients and internal stakeholders
• Collaborate with a team of solutions and product strategists
• Orchestrate the translation of client needs into business and functional requirements
• Lead on client data strategy assessment and enrichment, translating process and strategy into new AI workflows

Candidates will be successful when they:

• Illustrate the ability to prioritize and resolve complex problems and escape to senior leadership team as necessary
• Have proficiency in communicating clearly and concisely, keeping audience in mind
• Possess exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to craft concise briefs for senior executives and clients
• Can synthesize numerous data sets and create meaningful value
• Have excellent analytical, logic, and math skills
• Can navigate ambiguity, instilling process and thoughtful “end-user” documentation
• Demonstrate advanced ability with platforms

Candidates stand out when they:

• Have experience working with cloud environments and marketing technology solution design projects
• Are a creative problem solver, possessing a high level of intuition
• Have strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, resourceful team player
• Are an excellent creative thinker with the ability to use both data and intuition to inform decisions
• Have experience working with co-located and virtual teams
• Possess impeccable time management skills
• Have excellent judgment while working on high-priority, confidential initiatives
• Understand principles of change management and approaches to changing behavior

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience with marketing and media agencies or adjacent capabilities, such as ad- and mar-tech firms, consultancies, or client-side marketing organizations
• Proficiency in analyzing workflows and relevant processes, with strategic recommendations based on business objectives
• Demonstrated skills in slide design, analysis, writing, communication, and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to look at the larger picture with a strategic perspective, balanced with an eye for detail

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

Compensation Range: $180,215- $299,637 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 05/06/2026.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.