VP, AI – Software Engineering

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🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

💵 $172.4k - $275.8k / year

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RR Donnelley

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

RR Donnelley is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

📋 Description

• Lead the transformation from a traditional software engineering model to an AI-native engineering organization • Define and lead AI adoption across the software development lifecycle • Establish measurable approaches for evaluating AI's impact on developer productivity, software quality, reliability, and delivery speed • Ensure autonomous engineering agents operate within defined guardrails and modernization standards • Architect applications and infrastructure to be agent-ready • Build organizational capability to design, develop, and operate AI-powered business solutions • Establish patterns for integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows • Evaluate AI technologies and solutions based on business value, implementation reality, cost, and risk • Create a disciplined idea-to-production pipeline for production-grade AI solutions • Provide technical leadership on emerging AI technologies and vendors and inform build, buy, partner, and platform decisions • Advise the SVP of Digital Strategy and other business and technology leaders on technology roadmaps, engineering strategy, and architecture • Advance modular, API-first, and composable engineering patterns • Steward legacy platforms and determine where to modernize, re-architect, or retain • Optimize codebases, environments, and data access layers • Shape the mix of internal talent, strategic partners, outsourcing, and augmentation • Develop engineering organizational capabilities and growth opportunities • Identify capability gaps and execute focused hiring strategies • Design and oversee support and sourcing models that maintain reliability • Manage the department budget with transparency and precision • Evaluate investments based on measurable business and engineering outcomes • Identify cost improvements through automation, productivity, architectural efficiencies, application rationalization, vendor management, and cloud/AI unit economics • Manage OpEx/CapEx and connect investments and milestones to financial and business outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Management, Engineering, or related field preferred • 10–14 years of technical experience with 4–6 years of direct management of staff, or comparable applicable work experience • Experience leading enterprise application modernization, including evolving legacy and monolithic systems toward modular, API-first, cloud-ready architectures • Deep understanding of the AI software engineering landscape • Experience applying AI-assisted and agentic approaches across the software development lifecycle • Ability to establish and evolve engineering standards, architecture principles, and governance • Experience leading engineering operating model and practice evolution across established technology organizations • Strong OpEx/CapEx management background • Ability to connect technical milestones to financial outcomes • Ability to solve complex and ambiguous problems collaboratively • Ability to work concurrently on multiple complex problems • Excellent communication skills with all organizational levels • Exceptional leadership abilities and experience building, managing, and motivating geographically distributed high-performing teams • Strong business acumen • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities under pressure

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Disability insurance • 401(k) with company match • Life insurance • Voluntary supplemental insurance coverages • Parental leave • Adoption assistance • Tuition assistance • Employer/partner discounts • Bonus, commission, or incentive program may be available depending on the role • Geographic salary adjustment may apply