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VML

Global marketing automation, personalization, and CRM

Associate Director AI Strategist - Marketing

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time$75k - $180k

About the Job

Requirements

  • The role requires 6–8 years of experience in marketing, advertising, or agency environments, such as strategy, account, production, media, or customer experience, with exposure to product, user experience, process, or innovation work.
  • The candidate should demonstrate genuine curiosity about artificial intelligence through personal experimentation and be able to discuss what they have built, tested, or broken.
  • The candidate should be a self-starter who identifies opportunities and pursues them independently.
  • The candidate should be a systems thinker who can untangle workflows and understand how their components fit together.
  • The candidate should have a builder's mindset and be ready to apply product thinking, treating solutions as evolving products with users, versions, and roadmaps.
  • The candidate should be comfortable translating between creative, business, and technical people.
  • The candidate should have strong stakeholder skills and be able to earn trust from marketing teams and technical owners.
  • The candidate should be comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with marketing teams to map current workflows and identify where artificial intelligence can remove friction or unlock new opportunities.
  • Turn real-world needs into clear problem statements and briefs for the AI Architect and Product Manager.
  • Prototype early ideas using no-code and artificial intelligence tools so teams can evaluate tangible concepts.
  • Shape one-off requests into durable tools that can scale across teams and develop over time.
  • Own the evolution of launched solutions by gathering feedback, prioritizing improvements, and planning subsequent versions.
  • Help build a roadmap that balances immediate client wins with longer-term capabilities.
  • Keep builds connected to prevent teams from duplicating solutions to the same problem.
  • Guide ideas from the initial conversation through launch and keep stakeholders informed throughout.
  • Log each use case so its impact can be measured.
  • Advocate for the business so artificial intelligence solutions are developed with the teams that use them.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on product, user experience, or service design experience, including discovery, user research, journey mapping, or prototyping.
  • Comfort with data and familiarity with how marketing technology fits together.
  • Automotive or retail marketing exposure.

About the Company

VML

Global marketing automation, personalization, and CRM

VML MAP is a global marketing services and technology partner that serves as a center of excellence for Marketing Automation, Personalization, Loyalty, Agentic AI, and CRM at scale. It helps brands humanize the relationship with customers by delivering data‑driven, personalized content across all channels and industries, leveraging a multi-disciplinary team across consulting, data & AI, content & creative, identity & 1to1, paid media, technology & platform, operating models & processes, and operations. The company operates from 14 offices worldwide, with a mission to scale efficient, measurable experiences that drive business success. Distinguishing factors include its global, diverse team; integration of marketing technology with AI capabilities; and a focus on end-to-end, interoperable solutions rather than isolated campaigns.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Kansas City, MO
Founded
1992

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