[Hiring] Vice President of Artificial Intelligence @Public Consulting Group

Role Description

The Vice President Intelligence is the seniormost leadership role responsible for the strategic pursuit of AI innovation and value creation in the enterprise. It is a transformative role that merges business acumen, strategic insight, innovation, and technological expertise to realize the full potential of AI beyond including and beyond automation and productivity improvement. The role is focused on driving AI transformation, improving enterprise AI literacy, creating AI strategies and evolving AI capabilities, implementing participative operating models, and codifying governance practices that reduce risk and increase differentiating business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership:
  • Accelerates AI-driven innovation and transformation by building and maintaining a vision for how AI will drive value aligned with strategic objectives.
  • Establishes a world-class AI strategy and organization that aligns with the company’s overarching enterprise vision, including goal setting and measuring AI initiatives.
• Client-facing Business Collaboration:
  • Fosters collaboration and bridges departmental gaps to develop cross-organizational and functional alignment in accordance with the enterprise AI vision.
  • Establishes an internal and external AI ecosystem, building working relationships with vendors, partners, research institutes, regulators, industry associations, and other external stakeholders.
  • Inform and deliver on ambitious product roadmaps to accelerate growth.
• Governance Leadership:
  • Chairs the AI governance board.
  • Evolves responsible AI policies and governance programs to address AI’s unique regulatory and compliance requirements.
  • Establishes effective collaboration between security, risk, compliance, legal, ethics, safety, and other stakeholders.
  • Establishes transparent AI portfolio evaluation and management practices to estimate, measure, and foster accountability for business value and ROI of AI initiatives.
• Hands-on Subject Matter Expert:
  • Fosters and cultivates AI literacy across the enterprise, leading transformation efforts and developing change management programs.
  • Defines the operating model and delivery capabilities to engineer and operationalize AI initiatives.
• Business Knowledge:
  • Business and financial acumen: Understand business concepts, practices, and business-domain language deeply enough to engage in problem-solving sessions.
  • AI-driven business transformation: Understand how decision intelligence, agentic AI, and other AI practices can transform decision making and work practices.
  • AI industry knowledge: Leverage a comprehensive understanding of industry dynamics to pinpoint where AI can yield significant impact.
  • Communication and influence: Bridge communication gaps and foster cross-functional synergy to align AI initiatives seamlessly.
  • Regulatory and compliance: Familiar with regulatory requirements and relevant data protection laws and regulations.
  • Leadership: Proven track record of applying and orchestrating AI throughout an organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Required; Master’s degree preferred in artificial intelligence, or data science.
• 10+ years of business experience, ideally in information or technology management, recently at or near the executive level.
• Five or more years of progressive leadership experience leading cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Five or more years of AI experience in information-intensive industries or digitally advanced enterprises.
• Five or more years spearheading the development and execution of AI engineering, software engineering, and/or advanced data science initiatives.
• Preferably ten or more years in software engineering with a strong understanding of software development methodologies.
• Experience innovating and developing new channels, business models, or business transformations.
• Experience fostering enterprise change and leading technology-led transformation programs.
• Experience in strategy and management consulting, as well as in multiple industries, and vertical industry knowledge, is desirable.
• Experience building architecture on AWS or Azure.

Compensation

• Compensation for roles at Public Consulting Group varies depending on a wide array of factors including role, skill set, and level of experience.
• As required by applicable law, PCG provides the following reasonable range of compensation for this role: $275,000-$350,000.
• PCG provides a range of benefits for this role, including medical and dental care benefits, 401k, PTO, parental leave, bereavement leave.

EEO Statement

Public Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to celebrating diversity and intentionally creating a culture of inclusion. We believe that we work best when our employees feel empowered and accepted, and that starts by honoring each of our unique life experiences.