QuinStreet · 2 days ago
Head of AI Strategy & Delivery
Foster City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
6+ years expQuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and consumers with brands. The Head of AI Strategy & Delivery will define, lead, and scale the company-wide AI efforts, shaping the long-term AI roadmap and driving business impact across multiple products and teams.
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Responsibilities
Own the company-wide AI strategy and roadmap, aligned with business goals and product priorities
Identify and prioritize high-value AI/GenAI use cases across the organization
Define clear success metrics and track measurable impact
Evangelize AI internally—helping teams understand where AI creates value and where it doesn’t
Lead architecture and delivery of production-grade AI systems across a multi-application, multi-tech-stack environment
Design end-to-end AI solutions: data pipelines, feature engineering, model development, guardrails, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
Establish best practices for GenAI safety including privacy, PII handling, prompt integrity, hallucination control, and regulatory compliance
Collaborate with Data, Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to translate ideas into scoped, measurable projects
Oversee AI/ML Ops including CI/CD for models, versioning, experimentation, A/B testing, observability, and incident response
Drive 'AI in the workflow' initiatives to improve employee productivity—not just prototypes
Build and maintain frameworks for AI performance monitoring, model governance, and lifecycle management
Prototype rapidly, review architecture and code, and build proof-of-concepts to de-risk ideas
Lead and mentor technical leads and AI engineers across multiple initiatives
Evaluate and manage relationships with model providers, cloud partners, vector databases, annotation tools, and GenAI platforms
Apply a disciplined build-vs-buy approach to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality
Qualification
Required
6+ years experience in software engineering, applied AI, or platform engineering roles
3+ years leading AI/LLM initiatives or cross-functional teams in a product-focused environment
Hands-on experience integrating and deploying LLM-based systems (RAG, agents, orchestration, prompt engineering)
Strong architecture skills across distributed systems, APIs, and cloud platforms
Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps concepts (monitoring, versioning, evaluation) — not heavy ML research
Ability to rapidly prototype and de-risk ideas with POCs
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional partners
Preferred
Experience scaling AI initiatives across a multi-product environment
Background taking AI capabilities from zero to one and one to many
Familiarity with responsible AI, compliance frameworks, or model risk management
Benefits
Health care benefits
Retirement benefits
Paid days off (paid sick leave, parental leave, paid time off, or vacation benefits)
Any other tax-reportable benefits
Company
QuinStreet
QuinStreet is an online performance marketing company providing technologies for businesses to identify their targeted audiences.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$40MKey Investors
MUFG Bank
2026-01-02Post Ipo Debt
2010-02-11IPO
2007-03-15Series Unknown
Leadership Team
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Douglas Valenti
CEO & Founder
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