VP Experience Design & AI Strategy

Velir; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 225.000 - 245.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote-first

Competitive pay and benefits

Zusammenfassung

Velir, a remote-first agency, seeks a VP, Experience Design to lead the practice across UX, UI, content, data, and AI for large client engagements. You will stand in for the CCIO on strategic pursuits, shaping the solution with Sales and Technology, and guiding finalist presentations from RFP to decision.

You will own the Experience Design practice, ensure enterprise-scale work on DXPs (Sitecore, Optimizely, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal), drive AI-enabled experiences, and manage delivery

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years leading experience design teams, with growth and operational metrics.
• Proven ability to win finalist presentations on $1M+ engagements as senior in the room.
• Experience selling integrated work spanning design, content, data, and technology.
• Experience shipping enterprise-scale experience design on a DXP (Sitecore, Optimizely, AEM, or Drupal).

Aufgaben

• Report to the CCIO and represent the full creative, strategy, and data remit on the pursuits you lead.
• Lead Velir x Brooklyn Data's largest pursuits as the CCIO's stand-in, owning the response strategy and finalist presentation from RFP to decision.
• Present integrated offerings across experience strategy, content intelligence, data, and technology, supported by practice leaders on the substance.
• Shape solutions with sales and development leads, including scope, phasing, team, and estimate assumptions, and push back when a solution won't win or can't be delivered at the price.
• Build go/no-go cases on new opportunities for the CCIO, covering fit, winnability, required creative investment, and trade-offs.
• Build lasting relationships with client executives, serving as a trusted advisor when engagements face hard decisions.
• Package the practice's capabilities into offerings Sales and account leads can sell independently, and keep the pursuit toolkit current.
• Represent Velir x Brooklyn Data's design point of view at industry events and with DXP platform partners.
• Run a pipeline of AI use cases across UX and UI delivery, measure results, and feed them into estimates and pricing, while setting guardrails and review standards for AI-assisted client work.
• Bring AI-enabled experience concepts into pursuits and accounts, and build design patterns for trust and handoff.
• Own the economics of design delivery, including utilization, margin, and staffing shape, and recommend tooling and hiring decisions to the CCIO.
• Hold the quality bar across the practice, measure performance, and document standards and decisions.

Kenntnisse

Creative leadership

Experience design leadership

Finalist presentations

Integrated selling

DXP platforms

UX/UI leadership

AI in design

AI-enabled experiences

Hands-on AI

Business metrics

Written comms

Client references

Tools

Sitecore

Optimizely

Adobe Experience Manager

Drupal

Jobbeschreibung

Velir, a remote-first agency, seeks a VP, Experience Design to lead the practice across UX, UI, content, data, and AI for large client engagements. You will stand in for the CCIO on strategic pursuits, shaping the solution with Sales and Technology, and guiding finalist presentations from RFP to decision.

You will own the Experience Design practice, ensure enterprise-scale work on DXPs (Sitecore, Optimizely, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal), drive AI-enabled experiences, and manage delivery