Managing Director, AIE & Amazon Commerce Capabilities

VML; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

VML is seeking a senior AIE & Amazon Commerce Capability Lead to build and lead a new capability within WPP Commerce Connections. The role sits at the intersection of Amazon commerce, data, AI, technology and business transformation, guiding the vision for an AI-enabled Amazon engagement with AWS and a multi-disciplinary team.

The ideal candidate will translate client priorities into high-value use cases, shape scalable solutions, and help scale the offering across clients and future AWS

Qualifications

• Deep Amazon ecosystem expertise, including experience inside Amazon and/or leading sophisticated Amazon solutions for major brands.
• Experience with data, analytics, technology and AI-enabled solutions and the ability to translate technical capabilities into commercial value.
• Strong understanding of the signals that drive an Amazon business, including sales, profitability, inventory, operations, search, digital shelf, media and measurement.
• Experience building products, solutions or capabilities from ambiguity rather than simply operating established programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business and solution vision for AIE, ensuring tech and AI are grounded in meaningful Amazon problems with measurable outcomes.
• Serve as the senior Amazon Commerce subject matter leader, connecting retail operations, profitability, inventory, digital shelf, search, media and customer experience.
• Translate client priorities into high-value use cases, requirements and product capabilities with strategy, analytics, design and tech teams.
• Partner with AWS and WPP leadership to shape solutions combining Amazon data, cloud, analytics and AI into scalable apps.
• Provide senior client leadership, helping executives understand what the intelligence means and how to act on it.
• Ensure the business vision, product roadmap and technical execution stay connected throughout delivery.
• Build the broader AIE & Amazon Commerce capability for reuse across clients and opportunities.
• Develop and mentor a multidisciplinary team spanning Amazon Commerce, analytics, strategy, product, experience and technology.
• Support growth and commercialization, including client development, solution design, scoping and pitches.

Skills

Amazon Commerce

Data analytics

AI-enabled solutions

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

AWS

Tools

AWS

Job description

VML is seeking a senior AIE & Amazon Commerce Capability Lead to build and lead a new capability within WPP Commerce Connections. The role sits at the intersection of Amazon commerce, data, AI, technology and business transformation, guiding the vision for an AI-enabled Amazon engagement with AWS and a multi-disciplinary team.

The ideal candidate will translate client priorities into high-value use cases, shape scalable solutions, and help scale the offering across clients and future AWS