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From robust career development planning to competitive life and wellness benefits, AArete’s “Culture of Care” takes a holistic approach to the employee experience.\nAAretians (our team members) are leaders at every level. You are encouraged to unlock your full potential by directly contributing to our mission and prioritizing space for personal development and fulfillment.\nThe Role\nWe are seekingaVP of AI Solutionsto lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise AI solutions that solve complex business and operational challenges for AArete and our clients. This individual will combine deep technical expertisewith a consulting mindset, partnering with clients and internal leaders to define business problems, identifypractical AI opportunities, and take solutions from concept through production deployment.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role. The ideal candidate has personally designed, built, and deployed AI solutions in production environments and remains comfortable working directly with code, architecture, data, APIs, and engineering teams. This individual will also help shape AArete's AI capabilities, develop reusable solutions and accelerators, and identify opportunities to deliver measurable value through AI.\nThe role requires someone who can operate effectively in a dynamic consulting environment, balance multiple priorities and engagements, and communicate effectively with both executive stakeholders and technical teams.\nWork You’ll Do\nPartner with clients and AArete leaders to understand complex business and operational challenges and translate them into practical AI use cases and implementation strategies\nLead AI engagements from discovery and business-case development through solution architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support\nDesign, prototype, code, test, troubleshoot, and deploy AI solutions while providing technical leadership to engineering and data teams\nBuild and implement generative AI applications, agentic AI workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, conversational AI, predictive models, and intelligent automation solutions\nDesign enterprise AI architectures that integrate with existing data platforms, applications, APIs, workflows, security controls, and operating models\nDevelop implementation plans, technical requirements, resource estimates, delivery timelines, and solution architectures for AI initiatives\nLead model selection, prompt engineering, RAG design, model evaluation, performance optimization, guardrails, monitoring, and other activities required to deliver reliable AI solutions\nMove AI initiatives beyond demonstrations and proofs of concept into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions\nDiagnose and resolve technical challenges related to data quality, integration, performance, hallucinations, security, scalability, and adoption\nDesign solutions across modern cloud, data, and enterprise platforms such as Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, and Salesforce\nEstablish standards and best practices for responsible AI, privacy, security, testing, monitoring, governance, and human oversight\nDevelop reusable AI accelerators, reference architectures, demonstrations, frameworks, and delivery playbooks that can be leveraged across clients and engagements\nWork directly with client executives, business leaders, architects, engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to communicate AI opportunities, limitations, risks, costs, and tradeoffs\nRecruit, mentor, and provide technical leadership to AI engineers, data scientists, architects, and consultants\nPartner across AArete to identify opportunities to embed AI into client solutions, internal capabilities, and broader transformation initiatives\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and partnerships based on their enterprise applicability and commercial potential\nOther duties as assigned\nRequirements\n10+ years of relevant experience in technology, software engineering, data, advanced analytics, AI/ML, consulting, or related disciplines with a Bachelor’s Degree, or 14+ years of equivalent experience\n4+ years of hands-on experience with AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, or intelligent automation\nDemonstrated recent experience personally designing, building, and deploying AI solutions into production environments\nExperience implementing multiple AI solutions in production, with the ability to clearly articulate individual technical contributions, architecture decisions, challenges, and outcomes\nStrong hands-on development capabilities using Python, SQL, APIs, and modern software-development practices\nExperience building generative AI applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, conversational AI, predictive models, or intelligent automation solutions\nHands-on experience with model selection, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, monitoring, and performance optimization\nExperience integrating AI solutions into complex enterprise environments, applications, workflows, and data platforms\nFamiliarity with enterprise AI and data platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform, or similar technologies\nUnderstanding of cloud architecture, data engineering, DevOps, MLOps, LLMOps, testing, observability, and production-support requirements\nProven ability to move AI solutions from prototype or proof of concept into secure, scalable production environments\nExperience working directly with business and technical stakeholders to define problems, evaluate AI use cases, develop technical approaches, and lead implementation\nAbility to estimate implementation effort, define resource requirements, manage delivery risks, and develop practical implementation plans\nStrong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business recommendations\nAbility to operate effectively across multiple concurrent initiatives and adapt quickly to changing priorities in a dynamic environment\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or providing technical direction to engineers, data scientists, architects, or other technical professionals\nWillingness to engage in direct client interaction, including travel to client locations\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship\nPreferred Requirements\nExperience working in consulting, professional services, systems integration, or another client-facing technology environment\nExperience delivering enterprise AI solutions within healthcare, health plans, or another highly regulated industry\nWorking knowledge of healthcare payer functions such as claims, enrollment, member and provider services, care management, utilization management, payment integrity, risk adjustment, quality, or finance\nFamiliarity with healthcare data, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible-use requirements\nExperience working with distributed or global engineering and delivery teams\nBased in Chicago, IL, and flexible to work from our Chicago office as needed\nCompensation & Benefits\nFlexible PTO, monthly half-day refuels, volunteer time off, 10 paid holidays\nOwn Your Day flexible work policy\nCompetitive majority employer-paid benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Match\nGenerous paid parentalleave options\nEmployer paid Life Insurance, STD, LTD\nCharitable contribution matching program\nNew client commission opportunities and referral bonus program\nBike share discount program\nThe estimated base salary range for this position is $235,000-$280,000. In addition to this base salary, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. This range is a part of a competitive, total compensation package together with our majority employer-paid benefits, and incentive pay for eligible roles. Please note that this range is a guideline and individual total compensation may vary due to numerous factors including but not limited to experience level, certifications, and other relevant business considerations.\nAArete will accept applications until the position is filled. The job posting will be removed once the role is no longer available.\nWe put humans at the center of our work\nWe’re a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in strategic profitability improvement, digital transformation, and strategy & change for clients. Our cross-industry solutions are powered by a digital-first mindset, market intelligence, and data-driven approach to deliver purposeful change, actionable insights, and guaranteed results.\nBut what sets us apart is our people. We are guided by our deeply embedded guiding principles: Excellence, Passion, Loyalty to Clients, Stewardship, Family, Community, Sustainability, and Inclusion.\nAnd we’ve been recognized as a top firm to work for by companies like Forbes, Top Workplaces Chicago Tribune, and Consulting Magazine.\nWe’ve earned a Great Place to Work Certification™ and been named a World’s Best Management Consulting Firm by Forbes, Vault’s Top 50 Firms to Work For, Crain's Chicago Business Fast 50, Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Firms, and Consulting Magazine's Fastest Growing Firms.\nLearn more about our award-winning culture\nWe are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9940,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":14,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Flexible schedule","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T06:16:36Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 5","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":13,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":142500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-05T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":280000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aarete-vp-ai-solutions","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aarete-vp-ai-solutions.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T00:26:47Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":533,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4467,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2837156},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2837156"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faarete-vp-ai-solutions"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faarete-vp-ai-solutions"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faarete-vp-ai-solutions"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/aarete-vp-ai-solutions\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faarete-vp-ai-solutions"}]}