Accordion · 3 days ago
AI Environment Readiness Vice President
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $175K/yr
6+ years expAccordion is a financial consulting firm focused on private equity, leveraging data, technology, and AI to drive value for clients. The Vice President of AI Environment Readiness will prepare the enterprise environments and data for AI enablement, ensuring systems are ready for intelligent automation and advanced analytics while collaborating with various teams to close gaps in AI readiness.
AccountingConsultingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech
No H1B
Responsibilities
Define and lead the strategy to make enterprise systems and data AI-ready
Establish technical standards for data accessibility, contextualization, and AI interoperability
Conduct readiness assessments across infrastructure, data, and process domains to identify and close gaps
Partner with IT leadership to prepare cloud environments and integrations for AI workloads such as embeddings, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval
Work with BI, Data, and Security teams to ensure data is unified, accessible, and well-governed for AI use
Develop frameworks for metadata tagging, indexing, and contextualization across structured and unstructured sources
Promote data consistency across enterprise systems (e.g., DealCloud, NetSuite, ClickUp) to enable cross-platform intelligence
Support compliance and data privacy standards aligned with AI governance expectations
Ensure that infrastructure and APIs can support high-performance AI and automation workloads
Collaborate with Infrastructure and Application teams to connect systems used by AI platforms like Glean and CoPilot
Define best practices for securely integrating AI APIs and external tools into Accordion’s enterprise environment
Collaborate with the AI Enablement Lead to align environment readiness with overall AI strategy
Partner with the AI Application & Agent Development team to ensure environments are properly indexed and optimized for agent use
Work closely with BI and Data teams to prepare datasets for model training, prompt engineering, and contextual retrieval
Educate business teams on AI readiness principles and promote alignment across departments
Define and track KPIs that measure environment readiness and AI enablement maturity
Continuously enhance frameworks and standards as AI tools and best practices evolve
Communicate progress and insights to executive leadership, linking readiness improvements to operational impact
Qualification
Required
6–10 years of experience in enterprise IT, data architecture, or technology enablement
Strong understanding of data modeling, governance, and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Experience preparing systems and data for AI use cases such as embeddings, knowledge graphs, and contextual retrieval
Knowledge of metadata management, APIs, and interoperability standards
Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate complex concepts clearly
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field
Preferred
Familiarity with enterprise AI tools like Glean, ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, or Zoom AI preferred
Benefits
Benefits
Bonus
Company
Accordion
Accordion is a financial and technology consulting firm that offers technical accounting, financial planning, and analysis services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Charlesbank Capital PartnersFriedman Fleischer & Lowe (FFL)
2022-09-08Secondary Market
2018-10-10Private Equity
Leadership Team
Atul Aggarwal
President
Junaid Samnani
President, Finance & Technology Solutions
Recent News
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