Vice President - Data Science

RRD 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.

The Vice President of Data Science is the executive leader responsible for the enterprise-wide vision, architecture, and execution of AI and Machine Learning. This role bridges the gap between complex AI research and scalable business operations by overseeing a high-performance platform capable of supporting agentic autonomy. The Vice President ensures the organization maintains a competitive advantage through superior AI infrastructure—optimized for both cloud and on-premise environments—while serving as a key advisor to the executive team on the future of autonomous systems.

Responsibilities: 

• Architectural Vision & Governance: Directs the long-term technical roadmap for AI infrastructure, ensuring that RAG patterns, Transformer architectures, and GPU orchestration are standardized across the enterprise.

• Autonomous Agent Strategy: Leads the design and deployment of A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocols, shifting the organization toward a self-sustaining, autonomous AI ecosystem.

• Operational & Cost Engineering: Owns the economic strategy for AI production, utilizing quantization and knowledge distillation to ensure high-performance model delivery at an optimized cost-to-serve.

• Hybrid Platform Stewardship: Oversees the integration and performance of AI workloads across diverse environments, ensuring parity and security between on-premise data centers and cloud providers.

• Organizational AI Literacy: Acts as a strategic partner to business units, identifying high-impact opportunities for agentic automation and guiding the cultural transition toward AI-augmented workflows.

• Talent & Culture Leadership: Establishes the technical standards, career pathing, and recruitment strategies to attract and retain world-class AI and Data Science talent.

• Define and execute a resource allocation strategy that balances internal talent development with external infrastructure investments to maximize long-term ROI.

• Shared responsibility for the Data Science budget (as part of the overall Engineering organization), with a focus on transforming the department from a cost center into a value-generating engine that impacts the company’s bottom line.

• Master's Degree in related field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, etc) (Required)
• PhD in a highly quantitative field (CS, Math, Physics, AI) Preferred

• 12+ years in a people leadership role (required)

• 15+ years in technical fields (required)

• Proven track record of moving GenAI/Agentic systems into production at an enterprise scale.

• Comprehensive mastery of LLM lifecycles, from experimental notebooks to scaled, distilled production models.

• Ability to visualize and build interconnected autonomous agents that navigate complex corporate APIs and data silos.

• Proven ability to influence board-level decisions and negotiate high-value partnerships with infrastructure and model providers.

• Expertise in navigating the ethical, legal, and technical risks associated with autonomous AI and data privacy.

• Champion fiscal discipline by aligning technical roadmaps with corporate financial objectives.

RRD's current salary range for this role is $208,500 to $333,700 / year. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee, and the range may change in the future. At RRD, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon, but not limited to education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. Depending on the role, in addition to base salary, the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus, commission or incentive program. RRD’s benefit offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.

All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans