VP, AI
Applications

Intrepid Digital is a growth and customer experience marketing agency that builds strategies that scale our clients' businesses. We specialize in SEO/Content Marketing, Paid & Organic Media, Conversion Optimization, Performance Creative, and Analytics.

Own how AI shows up in the work — both the systems we build internally and the AI-driven products and programs we sell to clients. This is a builder-leader role: you'll set the roadmap, ship alongside the team, and be credible in a client room.

• Define and own the AI application roadmap: agent systems, internal automation, and client-facing AI products
• Turn repeatable agency work (audits, media planning, reporting, creative QA) into durable tooling
• Lead a small team of AI developers and engineers; hire and set technical standards
• Partner with strategy, media, and creative leads to find where AI actually moves margin or outcomes — and kill the ideas that don't
• Own build-vs-buy decisions across model providers, orchestration frameworks, and vendor tools
• Set guardrails: data handling, client confidentiality, evaluation, and human review
• Act as senior technical voice in new business — pitches, RFPs, scoping, and pricing AI work

• 8+ years in software/product, with 2+ shipping LLM-based applications to real users
• Hands-on fluency with agent architectures, RAG, evals, prompt and context engineering, and API integration
• Experience leading engineers and owning a roadmap, not just executing one
• Ability to explain tradeoffs to non-technical executives and clients without condescension
• Judgment about where AI is genuinely better and where it's theater
• Agency, martech, or performance marketing background
• Familiarity with ad platform APIs (Meta, Google) and MCP-style connector ecosystems
• Experience operating under client security and data review

• Competitive salary with performance incentives
• Health, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.
• Remote-friendly environment
• Budget for continued learning (courses, coaching, conferences)