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Toptal · 18 hours ago

VP, AI Practice

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

15+ years exp

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams on-demand. As Toptal’s VP, AI Practice, you will define and execute the strategy for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI services, combining technical expertise with business acumen to build offerings that meet market demand.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for building and scaling Toptal’s AI/ML practice, including:

Strategy: Identify high-value client problems in AI/ML and develop a roadmap for offerings that address them

Offering Development: Create services in areas including LLM integration, custom model training, AI strategy consulting, and AI-powered analytics

Go-to-Market: Lead initial market engagements to validate offerings, then scale adoption in collaboration with Sales and Practice Operations teams

Thought Leadership: Represent Toptal as an AI innovation leader via publications, speaking engagements, and community involvement

Sales Enablement: Educate sales teams on AI/ML concepts, emerging trends, and value propositions; personally lead key client discussions

P&L Ownership: Oversee financial performance of the AI/ML practice

Talent Network Development: Build and maintain a network of AI engineers, data scientists, and ML researchers with cutting-edge expertise

Accomplish work objectives through leading and supervising other Toptal team members within the AI/ML Practice

Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work

Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed

Qualification

AI governanceMachine learningNatural language processingLarge language modelsAI productizationPythonTensorFlowPyTorchML Ops toolsP&L ownershipCoachingCommunication skillsCollaborative workMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required

15+ years of experience in Technology Services and/or Product

10+ years of experience in AI/ML, including deep exposure in enterprise AI initiatives

Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, LLMs, and AI governance

Proficiency with Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ML Ops tools

Track record of leading AI commercialization and productization efforts

P&L ownership experience in a technology services context

Industry experience in sectors like marketing, finance, healthcare, or e-commerce

Strong ability to bridge technical and business conversations with both executives and engineers

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts

You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do

Preferred

Master's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field

Company

Toptal

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Toptal is a network of talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand.

Founded in 2010

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.toptal.com

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