Associate Vice President

Perficient is building an AI-First Marketing & Engagement practice from scratch—one designed around the premise that agentic AI, intelligent automation, and model-driven personalization are fundamentally changing how enterprise marketing technology gets designed, delivered, and operated. This is the technical strategy lead for our largest OEM client relationship: a major enterprise account spanning marketing technology, customer experience, and digital platform work across multiple business units, workstreams, and partner co-delivery motions.

Reporting to the VP, you’ll own the architecture vision, the solution roadmap, and the commercial growth strategy for the account. The role is part Solutions Architect, part Technical Account Strategist, part Practice Builder - you’ll be the senior technical voice the client’s IT leadership, marketing technology teams, and business stakeholders turn to when they need to understand what’s possible, what’s smart, and what to build next - including how AI reshapes the answer to each of those questions.

This is an AVP-level role for someone who has shaped the multi-year technology direction of a major account, influenced seven-figure-plus engagements, and operated at the level where their recommendations directly affect a client’s investment decisions. The practice is being built from scratch, the playbook doesn’t exist yet, and the person in this seat will define what AI-first technical strategy looks like at Perficient, on this account and beyond it.

In This Role, You Will

• Own end-to-end technical strategy, solution architecture, and commercial growth for a flagship enterprise account: designing solutions that integrate platform, data, and AI capability from the start, not as separate layers.

• Operate as a trusted technical partner to CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and marketing technology leaders: helping them see how agentic systems and AI-native architecture change what’s possible for their business and then building the path to get there.

• Combine hands-on solution design with consultative strategy, account growth, and organizational influence: shaping not just what we deliver on this account, but how the broader practice thinks about technical strategy and AI-first delivery.

How You’ll Make a Difference

Shape and scope client engagements

• Partner with the client’s IT directors, enterprise architects, marketing technology leaders, and business stakeholders to define engagement scope, success criteria, and solution direction, with an explicit eye toward where AI changes the scope of what’s worth building.

• Lead technical discovery and design sessions that go beyond mapping current-state pain points to existing platforms. The question isn’t just “what system do you need?” - it’s “what does your operation look like when agentic automation, model-driven personalization, and intelligent orchestration are part of the architecture?”

• Identify risks early, clarify technical and organizational dependencies, and ensure alignment between client expectations and Perficient’s delivery capabilities, including realistic assessment of where AI is production-ready and where it isn’t.

• Navigate the OEM relationship dynamics: co-delivery with the client’s internal teams, alignment with their platform and partner ecosystem, and the ability to build on and through their technology, not just alongside it.

Lead end-to-end technical strategy and solution design

• Own the architecture vision across concurrent engagements, designing for the integration of martech platforms (Adobe, Sitecore, Optimizely), CX systems, data and personalization infrastructure (CDPs, decisioning engines), AI capability, and enterprise integration architecture as a coherent whole, not as separate tracks.

• Design and present solution architectures for platform implementations and migrations, system integrations, data unification and personalization, and AI-driven automation. Every architecture should answer the question: where does intelligence live in this system, and how does it improve over time?

• Evaluate and recommend across Perficient’s partner ecosystem - and beyond it - based on what’s right for the problem. You know when Salesforce is the answer, when Sitecore is the answer, when an agentic workflow is the answer, and when the an