Vice President Director, Technology - AI Orchestration

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas seeks a Vice President Director, Technology - AI Orchestration to lead AI-driven transformations across marketing operations. You will own discovery, strategy, and delivery of generative AI-powered projects, work with strategy, data, media, and design teams, and mentor junior staff while shaping the agency's evolving AI platform and agent ecosystem.

You'll balance blue-sky ideation with practical implementation, present to executives, and ensure scalable, end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst role, with significant digital/technology project experience.
• 5+ years consulting or working in a digital agency environment.
• Robust expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and optimizing solutions.
• Proven capability in system/business analysis and driving product development from ideation to launch.

Responsibilities

• Be a key representative of the Digitas AI team to our internal partners and stakeholders throughout the agency.
• Partner with internal teams and SMEs to deliver AI solutions for agency teams such as Strategy, Data and Analysis, Media, Experience Design, Project Management, Social and our cross-capability client solution streams (Total Commerce, CRM, Creative Experience).
• Drive the end-to-end discovery, strategy, and delivery of AI-powered projects using our generative AI platform.
• Architect, prototype, and implement innovative solutions across diverse use cases.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams including designers, developers, and strategists to ideate, develop, and launch new agents and experiences.

Education

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Business or Technology related field

Job description

Company description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign's Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world's leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Overview

Vice President Director, Technology - AI Orchestration

Digitas is seeking a Vice President Director, Technology - AI Orchestration to help enhance agency operations by applying generative AI and data to digital marketing operations. You'll join a team that's building and maturing our ever-accelerating bespoke AI platform in service of the rest of the agency. The team creates, deploys, and supports custom-made AI agents that increase the efficiency and productivity of our internal teams, while keeping them on the cutting edge of serving our clients. In this pivotal role, you will partner closely with internal stakeholder teams and practices to analyze their processes, uncover pain points, map out opportunities, apply a technical strategy lens, and deliver solutions for AI transformation. While generative AI will be a core focus, your toolbox will also include automation technologies and process/workflow optimization.

Why Join Us? You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital experiences and AI-powered solutions for teams serving Fortune 500 clients, leveraging cutting-edge technology in a collaborative, agency environment.

Who You Are:

• A leader and a doer. You'll manage projects and people and be hands-on in architecting and delivering solutions. Expect to lead meetings with key internal stakeholders, document requirements, assess technical feasibility, consult and collaborate with SMEs, create technical documentation including technical diagrams, strategy manifestoes, user flows, system prompts, and data flows. In addition, you will develop and coach junior staff
• The owner of technical expertise and a deft interpersonal touch. You can go deep on MCP servers with an architect on Monday and the next day talk brand safety and creative concepting with a brand creative lead
• An expert at balancing blue-sky ideation with real-world solutioning-and you know when to emphasize one versus the other
• A top-notch presenter
• Flexible, adaptable, and fluid
• A subject matter expert in prompt engineering and generative AI best practices, offering hands-on guidance and training to clients to maximize the value of the platform

What You'll Do:

• Be a key representative of the Digitas AI team to our internal partners and stakeholders throughout the agency
• Partner with internal teams and SMEs to deliver AI solutions for agency teams such as Strategy, Data and Analysis, Media, Experience Design, Project Management, Social and our cross-capability client solution streams (Total Commerce, CRM, Creative Experience)
• Drive the end-to-end discovery, strategy, and delivery of AI-powered projects using our generative AI platform
• Architect, prototype, and implement innovative solutions across diverse use cases
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams - including designers, developers, and strategists to ideate, develop, and launch new agents and experiences
• Identify opportunities to expand and enhance the core platform and work with platform development team to define use cases, feature requirements, and acceptance criteria
• Help to define intake, planning, and delivery processes that make work mature, scalable, sustainable, and impactful
• Build and execute rollout, training, support, and maintenance processes and practices
• Present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences with clarity and confidence
• Report to the Vice President Group Director, Technology, Agency and Media Solutions
• Partner with peers like the AI Program Director, AI Media Solutions Digital Product Manager, and AI leaders within our agency disciplines

Qualifications

We're looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• 9+ years in a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst role, with significant digital/technology project experience
• 5+ years consulting or working in a digital agency environment
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Business or Technology related field preferred
• Robust expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and optimizing solutions
• Proven capability in system/business analysis and driving product development from ideation to launch
• Proficient in modern AI platforms, tools, and the digital/software development lifecycle
• Excellent analytical, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal abilities
• Demonstrated leadership in managing multidisciplinary teams and fostering innovation
• Adaptability to handle risk, change, and feedback while maintaining composure under pressure

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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 [e-mail].

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

Compensation Range: USD $135,375.00 - USD $216,684.00/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. 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 1/1/2028.