VP, AI Strategy & Delivery

Role Description

Pacvue is seeking a VP, AI Strategy & Delivery to lead our AI strategy and execution across AI Labs, Pacvue Agent and Machine Learning. The role spans our entire AI remit, requiring a leader to possess outstanding technical skills, strong ability to engage/inspire customers, and a true talent builder.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this leader will help scale Pacvue’s global AI and Data Science organization as we continue to evolve into an AI-first commerce media platform across retail media, DSP products, full-funnel activation, measurement, optimization, and customer workflows.

This role will build on the strong AI and Data Science foundation already in place (based primarily in the US & China), partnering closely with existing leaders and teams to sharpen strategy, increase customer impact, and scale AI capabilities across the platform.

This is a customer-facing role. The VP of AI will serve as a key representative of Pacvue’s AI strategy with customers, agencies, partners, and the broader commerce media ecosystem, helping customers understand how AI can improve media decisioning, workflow automation, measurement, optimization, and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Represent Pacvue’s AI Vision with Customers
• Engage directly with enterprise brands, agencies, retailers, and strategic partners to understand their AI priorities, concerns, workflow gaps, and adoption barriers.
• Support executive briefings, customer advisory boards, strategic sales conversations, industry events, and thought leadership.
• Translate customer feedback into AI strategy, experimentation themes, product priorities, and roadmap decisions.
• Lead and Scale AI / Data Science
• Partner closely with existing AI and Data Science leaders to scale the organization, strengthen execution, and increase the impact of AI across customer-facing products.
• Create operating clarity across AI Labs, production ML/AI, Data Science, Pacvue Agent, and agentic workflows, ensuring clear ownership, priorities, evaluation criteria, and product impact.
• Ensure our AI, ML and Data Science teams are aligned, focused and executing seamlessly.
• Accelerate Pacvue Agent and Agentic AI
• Lead Pacvue’s agentic AI strategy across customer workflows, internal productivity, decision support, and governed automation.
• Define where AI should recommend, explain, act, escalate, and learn within customer and internal workflows.
• Own AI Labs and Experimentation
• Identify high-potential AI use cases, test them quickly, and determine which should graduate into production roadmaps.
• Create a disciplined experimentation model that balances speed, customer value, feasibility, responsible AI practices, and business impact.
• Advance ML/AI and Data Science Capabilities
• Drive decisions around model quality, explainability, trust, governance, evaluation, and adoption.
• Partner Across Product and GTM
• Help translate AI capabilities into clear customer narratives, business value, packaging, and differentiated market positioning.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AI, ML, Data Science, product leadership, enterprise software, ad tech, commerce media, or related fields, all at a global level.
• Experience leading AI, ML, or Data Science teams within a product-led organization, with a track record of turning advanced technical capabilities into scalable customer-facing products.
• Strong understanding of applied AI, machine learning, generative AI, agentic workflows, recommendation systems, optimization, forecasting, measurement, or decisioning platforms.
• Strong customer-facing executive presence, with the ability to explain AI clearly to senior brand, agency, retailer, and partner stakeholders.
• Strong product judgment, including the ability to distinguish high-value AI use cases from low-value demos.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to make AI understandable, credible, and actionable.
• Willing to travel for customer facing events and meetings, as well as regular trips to China to meet with key members of our technical team.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays and Floating Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA with employer contribution, Life Insurance and Pet Insurance
• 401k with Employer Match
• Take up to 2 Days of Paid Time Off to Volunteer with a 501c Organization
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company-subsidized membership to Wellhub and Peloton
• Fertility and family-building support through Carrot