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About the Role

This VP role focuses on the rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI platforms, and model infrastructure. Sitting at the intersection of enterprise AI strategy, product innovation, engineering, and commercial operations, this role ensures that the organization has the right LLM partners, capabilities, and commercial agreements to accelerate growth and deliver differentiated value for clients.

Responsibilities

Own and lead a portfolio of LLM focused partnerships, including model providers, infrastructure platforms, safety/guardrail vendors, and model ops technologies.
Translate market intelligence, client needs, and internal priorities into a comprehensive annual LLM partnership strategy.
Identify, vet, and cultivate new LLM and gen-AI partnership opportunities that enhance product innovation and enterprise capabilities.
Serve as a senior subject-matter expert on LLM technologies, while representing adjacent AI domains in partnership conversations.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to ensure LLM partnerships align with capability roadmaps, model requirements, and value-creation goals.
Work cross-functionally across AI, media, creative, and commercial teams to design integrated go-to-market strategies leveraging LLM partners.
Evaluate commercial viability and technical compatibility of LLM opportunities; ensure each partnership is optimized for performance, safety, and cost efficiency.
Act as a problem solver and integrator, coordinating multiple stakeholders and maintaining forward momentum across complex partnership initiatives.
Drive excellence in LLM partnership governance, reporting, compliance, and enablement across the organization.
Represent the organization as an AI thought leader in market-facing opportunities (panels, PR, partner events) within the LLM domain.
Provide communication, documentation, and knowledge management for all LLM partnerships, ensuring transparency, alignment, and adoption across teams.
Support client conversations and new-business pitches as the LLM expert and AI partnership lead.
Liaise and partner with Product and Solutions organizations to facilitate partnership development and capability creation within dentsu.
Consult on client business to build custom partnership plans and subject-matter expertise of partner landscape.

Requirements

Possess strategic thinking and the ability to make critical business decisions aligned with organizational goals.
Challenge status quo and inspire new ideas and approaches.
Experience in organizational transformation and leading large-scale change management programs.
Comfortable working with multiple senior peers and stakeholders, taking initiative and ownership.
Business acumen, client-centricity, and a commercial mindset are essential, along with a genuine passion for people.
Balance, prioritize and properly assign work associated with multiple, concurrent projects and stakeholders.
10+ years’ experience within the digital industry as a partnership or investment lead at a reputable agency or partner.
5+ years’ experience management of a team – with the ability to lead a highly successful team.
Consistent exceptional project management, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
Excellent verbal and written communications, presentation, and analytical skills; must be comfortable working with and presenting sophisticated metrics to C-level.
Ability to retain professionalism in all situations.
Passion for problem-solving and collaboration across teams.
Ability to translate complex ideas into actionable solutions.

Skills

Large Language Models (LLMs)
Generative AI platforms
Model infrastructure
Foundation models
Finetuning partners
Vector database vendors
Model ops platforms
Safety/guardrail technologies
AI partnership strategy
Commercial agreements
Technical agreements
Product innovation
Engineering
Commercial operations
Data science
Legal
Security
Media
Creative
Go-to-market strategies
Project management
Communication
Presentation
Analytical skills

Location

New York

Work Type

Full time
Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

VP
10+ years experience
5+ years management experience

Salary/Compensations

165K- 175K

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
Flexible paid time off
At least 15 paid holidays per year
Paid sick and safe leave
Paid parental leave

About the Company

The Marketplace & Partnerships division is responsible for all elements of strategic partnerships for the dentsu Media practice in the US.
The team sits at the intersection of dentsu’s media agencies (Carat, iProspect and dentsuX), clients, investment and activation communities, and Amplifi, the commercial innovation arm for dentsu.
The team is responsible for translating the business needs of dentsu’s clients, the strategic and commercial imperatives of dentsu itself, as well as emergent and established trends across the industry and society into strategic, value-driven, and beneficial partnerships.
They also set the strategic agenda for partnerships at dentsu in the marketplace, how that pertains to new business and in product/solution design within dentsu.

Equal Opportunity

Dentsu is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex , sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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