Job Description
As one of Microsoft’s most recognized global partners, Quisitive sits at the forefront of cloud transformation, enterprise data strategy, cybersecurity, and the emerging frontier of agentic AI. Here, consultants and technologists operate on the edge of innovation—supported by a culture that values craftsmanship, open collaboration, and technical expertise. If you’re looking for a place where you can innovate, solve complex problems, and build solutions that make a measurable impact, join us.
About the Role
Quisitive is seeking a visionary Vice President, AI Strategy & Services to lead the evolution of our Microsoft AI consulting and advisory practice. This executive role sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology innovation, solution architecture, sales, and delivery.
The Vice President will define Quisitive’s AI strategy, lead executive client engagements, and serve as the firm’s technical thought leader for Microsoft AI technologies. Working closely with Delivery leadership, this individual will establish the technical vision, delivery standards, engineering practices, reusable assets, and platform strategies that enable Quisitive to consistently deliver world-class AI solutions.
This leader will balance strategic business consulting with deep technical expertise across Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, ensuring our offerings remain differentiated, scalable, and aligned with Microsoft’s product roadmap.
The ideal candidate will be physically located within the US with Dallas, TX being preferred.
Expected Travel: 40-50%
Key Responsibilities
AI Leadership
- Define and evolve Quisitive’s AI strategy, service offerings, solution portfolio, and go-to-market approach.
- Establish Quisitive as a premier Microsoft AI consulting partner through thought leadership, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Ownership of the roadmap for AI advisory services, AI modernization, intelligent applications, AI agents, and enterprise AI transformation.
- Represent Quisitive with Microsoft, strategic partners, analyst firms, and executive customer communities.
Technical Strategy & Architecture Leadership
- Define the enterprise architecture strategy for Microsoft AI solutions across Azure AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Graph, and related technologies.
- Establish technical standards, architectural patterns, reference implementations, reusable components, accelerators, governance models, and best practices.
- Partner with Delivery leadership to define engineering methodologies, implementation approaches, DevSecOps standards, AI lifecycle management, and solution quality expectations.
- Guide technical decisions around agentic AI architectures, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering, AI observability, model evaluation, responsible AI, and AI governance.
- Ensure Quisitive’s AI capabilities remain aligned with Microsoft’s technology roadmap and emerging innovations.
Delivery Partnership
- Partner closely with Delivery leadership to mature Quisitive’s AI delivery capability.
- Develop technical enablement programs, engineering playbooks, implementation frameworks, and reusable delivery assets.
- Define technical certification priorities and capability development plans across consulting, architecture, engineering, and data teams.
- Guide the establishment and evolution of AI Centers of Excellence and technical communities of practice.
- Provide executive oversight into complex AI solution architectures and strategic client implementations.
Client Advisory
- Lead executive conversations around AI strategy, transformation, governance, modernization, and business value realization.
- Facilitate executive workshops, AI strategy engagements, innovation sessions, design thinking workshops, and roadmap development.
- Translate business objectives into scalable Microsoft AI solutions and implementation strategies.
- Serve as executive sponsor for strategic AI engagements and transformation programs.
Sales & Business Development
- Support strategic pursuits, proposals, executive presentations, and large AI opportunities.
- Partner with Sales and Solution Architects to shape differentiated Microsoft AI solutions.
- Develop repeatable offerings that accelerate sales cycles and improve delivery consistency.
- Build trusted relationships with Microsoft field teams and strategic alliance partners.
What Success Looks Like
- Quisitive is recognized as a trusted Microsoft AI advisory and implementation partner.
- AI strategy engagements consistently convert into successful implementation programs.
- Delivery teams leverage standardized architecture, reusable assets, and proven implementation methodologies.
- Microsoft identifies Quisitive as a strategic AI partner with deep technical capability.
- AI practitioners continually improve certifications, technical depth, and delivery quality.
- AI offerings evolve rapidly with Microsoft’s platform innovations while maintaining delivery consistency and governance.
- Customers achieve measurable business outcomes through secure, scalable, and production-ready AI solutions.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology consulting, cloud architecture, AI, data, or digital transformation.
- 7+ years leading consulting practices, technical organizations, or enterprise architecture teams.
- Demonstrated success building AI consulting practices, technical communities, and delivery organizations.
- Executive-level consulting experience with Fortune 1000 clients.
- Proven success leading strategic sales pursuits and executive customer relationships.
Technical Expertise
Deep knowledge across Microsoft’s AI platform, including:
- Azure AI Services
- Azure OpenAI Service
- Azure AI Foundry
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Microsoft Fabric
- Power Platform
- Microsoft Graph
- Azure Data Platform
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure API Management
Strong understanding of:
- Agentic AI architecture
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Prompt engineering
- Vector databases and semantic search
- AI orchestration frameworks
- Model evaluation and benchmarking
- Responsible AI and AI governance
- AI security and compliance
- MLOps and LLMOps
- AI observability and monitoring
- Enterprise integration patterns
- Cloud-native application architecture
Leadership Competencies
- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills.
- Ability to bridge executive business priorities with complex technical architectures.
- Strong collaboration across Sales, Delivery, Engineering, and Microsoft partner teams.
- Passion for mentoring technical leaders and growing organizational capability.
- Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
Preferred
- Microsoft certifications across Azure, AI, Fabric, Security, and Power Platform.
- Experience developing enterprise AI governance frameworks.
- Background leading AI Centers of Excellence.
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale Copilot and agentic AI implementations.
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
Why Quisitive
At Quisitive, you’ll help shape the future of enterprise AI. You’ll define the technical direction of our Microsoft AI practice, influence some of the industry’s most innovative organizations, partner directly with Microsoft, and build the capabilities that enable our consultants and clients to thrive in the era of intelligent agents and AI-powered business transformation.
