Vice President - Artificial Intelligence
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Define and execute the organization's comprehensive AI consulting strategy and services portfolio from the ground up. Lead the AI practice by managing a technical team, advising enterprise clients, and driving market awareness through thought leadership.
Vice President - Artificial Intelligence
We are looking for a visionary Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us define, build, and drive Coastal’s AI strategy and roadmap across the organization. This is a build-from-the-ground-up leadership role with the opportunity to shape Coastal’s AI strategy, services, market positioning, delivery approach, and internal adoption.
As a key leader who will build and grow a team over time, you will focus on advancing Coastal as a premier consultancy for enterprise AI solutions. You will act as the face of our AI practice, drive market awareness through thought leadership, develop services in partnership with our marketing team, collaborate with our go-to-market (GTM) teams, take a leading role in advising clients, ensure solutions are delivered successfully, and collaborate with our IT team to optimize the AI tools internally as well
Role Responsibilities:
We are looking for a visionary Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us define, build, and drive Coastal’s AI strategy and roadmap across the organization. This is a build-from-the-ground-up leadership role with the opportunity to shape Coastal’s AI strategy, services, market positioning, delivery approach, and internal adoption.
As a key leader who will build and grow a team over time, you will focus on advancing Coastal as a premier consultancy for enterprise AI solutions. You will act as the face of our AI practice, drive market awareness through thought leadership, develop services in partnership with our marketing team, collaborate with our go-to-market (GTM) teams, take a leading role in advising clients, ensure solutions are delivered successfully, and collaborate with our IT team to optimize the AI tools internally as well
Role Responsibilities:
- Define Overall AI Strategy: Take ownership of a "blank white board" to architect, launch, and execute Coastal's comprehensive AI consulting strategy, practice structure, and AI services portfolio, including identifying new offerings, retiring outdated capabilities, prioritizing investments, and ensuring alignment with market demand and partner roadmaps.
- Market Leadership: Drive Coastal's strategic positioning and technical excellence as a leading consultancy for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI solutions, working closely with marketing, sales and delivery.
- Thought Leadership & GTM Support: Serve as Coastal’s primary internal and external subject matter expert on AI; partner closely with marketing and GTM teams to develop collateral, publish insights, and build brand authority.
- Client-Facing Pitching & Advisory: Act as a strategic executive in client-facing environments, pitching AI services to prospective clients and advising enterprise leaders on AI roadmaps.
- Establish Implementation Best Practices: Define frameworks and guardrails for deploying AI solutions responsibly and effectively, guiding delivery teams on implementation best practices.
- Practice Building & Team Management: Recruit, onboard, and manage a high-performing team of 2 to 5 direct reports in AI Engineer roles to support growing project pipelines.
- Company Enablement: Develop and lead ongoing Data & AI enablement for sales, marketing, and delivery teams, ensuring employees understand Coastal's AI point of view, and evolving capabilities.
- Internal AI Tooling Oversight: Stay at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI landscape to vet and recommend cutting-edge tools for both internal operations and the creation of new services. Collaborate closely with the Delivery Excellence team to ensure Coastal leverages these technologies (such as Sweep.io) to maximize consultant productivity and drive continuous innovation.
- Partner Strategy: Work closely with our internal alliances and marketing strategists to develop relationships with our partners including Salesforce, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Experience/Skills Required:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
- Experience: 15+ years of experience in a technical role, such as a solutions engineer, innovation engineer, or related field.
- Consulting Leadership: Proven background in management consulting or technology consulting, with a track record of advising enterprise-level stakeholders.
- AI Subject Matter Expertise: Deep knowledge of modern AI frameworks, large language models (LLMs), and best practices for implementing scalable AI solutions.
- Platform Familiarity: Strong strategic and technical understanding of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI ecosystems.
- Broader Ecosystem Awareness: General technical awareness of data and AI capabilities within platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and similar cloud data architectures.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Demonstrated capability to build a practice, service line, or corporate strategy from scratch with minimal initial structure.
- People Management: Experience hiring, mentoring, and directly managing technical teams (specifically software or AI engineers).
- Communication Excellence: Superb client-facing presentation, pitching, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex AI capabilities into clear business value.
- Travel Mobility: Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% for client pitches, site visits, and industry events.
- Work Authorization: Must have full-time permanent US work authorization.
Additional Preferred Experience/Skills:
- Experience implementing Salesforce’s suite of platforms, such as CRM, Marketing Cloud, CDP/Data Cloud, and/or Tableau and CRMA.
- Hands-on experience with code-automation or AI productivity tools
- Previous experience working in a cross-functional role that bridges technical and business teams.
Why Coastal, and what we offer:
- Flexible working hours with an emphasis on a life-work balance (in that order!)
- Remote flexible work; “Live by the beach, work in the Cloud,” plus company office locations in Palm Coast, FL; Atlanta, GA; Tysons, VA & Lexington, KY; travel as required to client locations
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (RTO), 401K with Company Match, and Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage
- Competitive quarterly bonus opportunities
- Continuing education and certification reimbursements, specifically within the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Salesforce ecosystems; plus occasional in-house competitions with spot bonuses
- A flexible and fun team culture! We value transparency, support, flexibility, growth, teamwork, fun, and so much more
- Frequent team and culture activities, virtual & in-person, including Lunch and Learns, Happy Hours, team-building events
- Monthly All-Hands calls to bring the company together, and an open-door leadership policy with access to mentorship and guidance
- Opportunities for accelerated growth, networking, and career guidance and support
- Trust, transparency and respect across all levels of the company
Coastal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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