Vice President, AI Engineering

Consumer Cellular

$150K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in AI engineering and leadership roles.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning, generative AI, and large language models.
  • Proven track record in developing and driving AI strategies aligned with business objectives.
  • Experience with establishing governance and compliance frameworks for AI usage.
  • Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to mentor and build high-performing technical teams.
  • Knowledge of data privacy and security protocols required for AI applications.

Responsibilities

  • Define the vision and strategy for AI engineering aligned with IT and business goals.
  • Lead development of AI-enabled solutions across various enterprise applications.
  • Collaborate with executive leadership and stakeholders to prioritize AI initiatives.
  • Establish governance and metrics for responsible AI development.
  • Drive adoption of AI tools to enhance productivity and automate workflows.
  • Guide the strategy for implementing large language models and their integration.
  • Ensure compliance with data security and privacy standards.

Benefits

  • Hybrid or onsite work option within 50 miles of Scottsdale, AZ headquarters.
  • Opportunity to lead and influence AI capabilities at a corporate level.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
  • Professional development opportunities in a growing field.
  • Supportive culture fostering innovation and ethical AI practices.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
Consumer Cellular is seeking a Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the strategy, development, governance, and operational adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities across the Information Technology department. This executive role is responsible for advancing practical, secure, and ethical use of artificial intelligence, generative AI, large language models, and AI-assisted tools to improve performance, automation, decision support, engineering productivity, and operational efficiency while protecting customer, employee, and company data.

You will need to reside within 50 miles of our Corporate Headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ as this role has the option of hybrid or onsite.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the enterprise AI engineering vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model in alignment with IT priorities, business goals, customer experience objectives, operational efficiency targets, and value creation expectations.
  • Lead AI engineering, applied AI, machine learning engineering, platform engineering, automation, architecture, MLOps, and related technical teams responsible for building, integrating, and supporting AI-enabled solutions across enterprise applications and operational workflows.
  • Partner with the CIO, executive leadership, product, operations, security, infrastructure, data, legal, privacy, compliance, and business stakeholders to prioritize AI use cases and ensure AI engineering delivery supports measurable business outcomes.
  • Establish standards, controls, metrics, and governance for responsible AI development, AI-assisted engineering, model evaluation, prompt management, output validation, human oversight, model monitoring, and accountable use of AI tools.
  • Drive responsible adoption of AI tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and comparable platforms, to optimize engineering productivity, workflow automation, knowledge management, incident analysis, documentation, testing, and operational performance.
  • Provide leadership for large language model strategy, including model selection, integration patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning considerations, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, data readiness, and cost-effective scaling.
  • Ensure AI engineering practices comply with organizational data privacy standards, information security protocols, responsible AI principles, regulatory requirements, intellectual property considerations, and approved AI usage policies.
  • Build, mentor, and develop high-performing AI engineering leaders and teams, fostering a culture of innovation, ethical judgment, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer focus.
  • Other duties as assigned.

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