Vice President Group Director, Solutions Architect - AI Systems and Experience Engineering
$168.2k - $257.7k/yr+ Bonus or incentive compensation
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Boston, MA, USA
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Solution EngineeringImplementation & Technical Account Management
About the job
Requirements
- At least 10 years in solution engineering, solution architecture, technology consulting, product engineering, or related roles delivering complex digital initiatives.
- At least 4 years in a digital agency, professional services, or consulting environment.
- Ability to assess business goals, user needs, constraints, and systems to define solution approaches.
- Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear architectures and recommendations.
- Hands-on expertise designing, deploying, and optimizing generative AI solutions, including prompt engineering and evaluation.
- Strong API and integration knowledge, with ability to partner across platforms, infrastructure, and quality assurance teams.
- Track record leading cross-functional agile teams and shipping production work.
- Executive communication, presentation, and client engagement skills.
- Comfort working as an individual contributor and player-coach, contributing hands-on when needed and guiding through influence.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including architecture diagrams, integration patterns, and strategy.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Digital Product Managers to translate business problems into feasible delivery approaches, co-lead solution concepting, and define the path from concept to production.
- Design end-to-end architectures combining AI agents, integrations, APIs, data, automation, and custom application components aligned to approved platform patterns.
- Guide architecture of agentic workflows that use structured data and unstructured content.
- Identify reusable patterns and convert them into platform features, enablement materials, and reference architectures.
- Define non-functional requirements, including scalability, performance, reliability, security, auditability, and maintainability.
- Assess marketing and advertising workflows to identify high-impact opportunities across content operations, campaign execution, analytics, personalization, and measurement.
- Lead client sessions to understand business objectives and existing systems and define an appropriate solution approach.
- Document client technology stacks, dependencies, data flows, and constraints; translate findings into architecture options and integration strategies.
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to integrate with MarTech ecosystems such as customer data platforms/customer relationship management, content management systems, tag management, advertising platforms, and analytics stacks.
- Conduct technology audits and vendor analyses; recommend build-versus-buy paths based on fit, cost, risk, APIs, service constraints, and delivery impact.
- Ensure discovery outputs translate into clear technical options, constraints, and architecture decisions.
- Provide architecture governance across the software development lifecycle, including reviews and risk management, ensuring implementation aligns to approved solutions and platform patterns.
- Provide scoping inputs, including assumptions, dependencies, risks, sequencing, staffing, and level of effort.
- Serve as a senior client-facing technical lead by co-facilitating discovery with Digital Product Managers, leading technical working sessions, delivering architecture playbacks and demos, and communicating tradeoffs clearly.
- Explain complex architecture, risks, and tradeoffs for executives, marketers, and engineers.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client technology stakeholders and facilitate decisions when business, product, and engineering priorities conflict.
- Maintain a clear through-line from proposal to design to delivery.
- Stay current on generative AI, agentic patterns, evaluation approaches, and emerging standards; identify opportunities to improve platform capabilities and delivery methods.
- Apply responsible AI principles, including privacy, data handling, consent, access controls, governance, auditability, and model limitation awareness.
- Define practical AI evaluation approaches for quality, bias, reliability, monitoring, and drift.
- Maintain organization, time management, and risk mitigation across distributed teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience implementing solutions in and around MarTech and advertising technology ecosystems.
- Experience building reusable internal platform capabilities used across multiple client teams.
- Experience evaluating AI vendors, APIs, and models on capability, cost, service levels, integration requirements, and platform fit.
About the company
Publicis Groupe runs advertising, media buying and digital transformation services for companies that want to reach consumers, coordinate campaigns and improve their business systems. Its agency network includes creative and media specialists, while Publicis Sapient builds and modernizes the technology behind clients' operations. Epsilon adds customer data and marketing technology that connect brands with audiences and measure campaign results. Clients pay for consulting, campaign creation and execution, with production and media costs billed through alongside the group's service work. Founded in 1926, Publicis Groupe is headquartered in Paris, France.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1926
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growth is holding up: July 2026 results showed 4.7% organic net revenue growth in the first half.
- Data work is expanding: Publicis agreed in May 2026 to buy LiveRamp and its data collaboration business.
- International experience has a formal route: WorkYourWorld gives approved Publicis employees up to six weeks abroad annually.
What critics are saying
- Accounts are vulnerable: Publicis' top 100 clients generated 58% of 2025 revenue, with short-notice contract exits.
- Employees face continuing reorganization: July 2026 results reported €76 million restructuring costs, up from €63 million.
- Expansion adds interest costs: September 2026 LiveRamp financing priced €500 million of bonds with a 4.125% coupon.
What makes Publicis Groupe unique
- Agency collaboration has financial backing: Publicis unifies profit accounts and gives each global client one accountable leader.
- Epsilon connects ads to purchases: its CORE ID uses transaction data rather than third-party cookies.
- Leadership continuity is unusual: Arthur Sadoun is only Publicis Groupe's third CEO.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Hybrid Work Options
- Training Programs