VP Of Applied AI & Internal Systems

About the role

This is a build role, not a research seat and not a reactive IT job. This individual is expected to own and drive internal business efficiency. They will own and lead the AI adoption strategy across every internal team, spanning Sales, Customer Success, Finance, People, Legal, IT, and Operations. They will also partner with Stord's Product and Data leadership to compound what's already being built into their products.

Responsibilities

• Own Stord's AI adoption strategy across every internal team, spanning Sales, Customer Success, Finance, People, Legal, IT, and Operations
• Take the AI wins already happening across Stord and turn them into a shared standard: one AI-native operating layer that every team builds on daily, not just talks about
• Own the security and compliance review process for AI tools adopted anywhere in the company, and own IT administration for AI platforms company-wide (procurement, provisioning, access management)
• Partner with Stord's Product and Data leadership so your adoption work compounds what's already being built into their products, rather than duplicating it
• Report progress and ROI on AI adoption to executive leadership on a regular cadence
• Lead and grow a team across AI Enablement, Forward-Deployed Engineering & Product, IT, Security, and Enterprise Systems, with dedicated director-level owners for each discipline so every function has a leader who can go deep
• Earn trust across functions outside your own reporting line; this role only works if people are willing to change how they work because you asked them to

Requirements

• Has built and led a forward-deployed or embedded engineering team: engineers who sit inside a business function, find the real problem, and ship working software fast, not a team that writes specs for someone else to build
• Personally led an internal platform, tools, or applied AI/agents team, comfortable evaluating engineering work and making technical hiring calls, not just approving business requirements
• Integrated systems, data, and teams following an acquisition, and can point to what actually got merged into one operating model, not left running in parallel

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a senior technical or operating leadership role in a high-growth business, with direct budget and hiring ownership
• Background in technology or tech-enabled businesses; logistics or operations experience is a plus, not a requirement
• Enough hands-on technical background to earn real credibility with your own engineers: you can read a design doc, push back on an approach, and tell the difference between a genuine agentic workflow and a thin wrapper around an API call
• Deep fluency in enterprise application architecture, system integration, and data management (CRM + ERP + HRIS minimum)
• Working knowledge of the current AI tooling and agentic landscape, sharp enough to make build-vs-buy calls yourself, not just sign off on a vendor's security review
• Solid grounding in IT operations, identity management, and security controls - you don't have to be the one doing the work, but you need to know when it's being done well

Skills

• Leadership: Earns trust across functions; Finance, Engineering, Revenue, and Operations all want to work with you
• Change management: You can get a Sales or Support team to actually adopt a new way of working, not just tolerate a mandate
• Real change management chops: you can get a Sales or Support team to actually adopt a new way of working, not just tolerate a mandate

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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