Role Description We are looking for a visionary Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us define, build, and drive Coastal’s AI strategy and roadmap across the organization. This is a build-from-the-ground-up leadership role with the opportunity to shape Coastal’s AI strategy, services, market positioning, delivery approach, and internal adoption. As a key leader who will build and grow a team over time, you will focus on advancing Coastal as a premier consultancy for enterprise AI solutions. You will act as the face of our AI practice, drive market awareness through thought leadership, develop services in partnership with our marketing team, collaborate with our go-to-market (GTM) teams, take a leading role in advising clients, ensure solutions are delivered successfully, and collaborate with our IT team to optimize the AI tools internally as well. Responsibilities - Define Overall AI Strategy: Take ownership of a "blank white board" to architect, launch, and execute Coastal's comprehensive AI consulting strategy, practice structure, and AI services portfolio, including identifying new offerings, retiring outdated capabilities, prioritizing investments, and ensuring alignment with market demand and partner roadmaps. - Market Leadership: Drive Coastal's strategic positioning and technical excellence as a leading consultancy for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI solutions, working closely with marketing, sales, and delivery. - Thought Leadership & GTM Support: Serve as Coastal’s primary internal and external subject matter expert on AI; partner closely with marketing and GTM teams to develop collateral, publish insights, and build brand authority. - Client-Facing Pitching & Advisory: Act as a strategic executive in client-facing environments, pitching AI services to prospective clients and advising enterprise leaders on AI roadmaps. - Establish Implementation Best Practices: Define frameworks and guardrails for deploying AI solutions responsibly and effectively, guiding delivery teams on implementation best practices. - Practice Building & Team Management: Recruit, onboard, and manage a high-performing team of 2 to 5 direct reports in AI Engineer roles to support growing project pipelines. - Company Enablement: Develop and lead ongoing Data & AI enablement for sales, marketing, and delivery teams, ensuring employees understand Coastal's AI point of view, and evolving capabilities. - Internal AI Tooling Oversight: Stay at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI landscape to vet and recommend cutting-edge tools for both internal operations and the creation of new services. Collaborate closely with the Delivery Excellence team to ensure Coastal leverages these technologies (such as Sweep.io) to maximize consultant productivity and drive continuous innovation. - Partner Strategy: Work closely with our internal alliances and marketing strategists to develop relationships with our partners including Salesforce, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred). - 15+ years of experience in a technical role, such as a solutions engineer, innovation engineer, or related field. - Proven background in management consulting or technology consulting, with a track record of advising enterprise-level stakeholders. - Deep knowledge of modern AI frameworks, large language models (LLMs), and best practices for implementing scalable AI solutions. - Strong strategic and technical understanding of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI ecosystems. - General technical awareness of data and AI capabilities within platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and similar cloud data architectures. - Demonstrated capability to build a practice, service line, or corporate strategy from scratch with minimal initial structure. - Experience hiring, mentoring, and directly managing technical teams (specifically software or AI engineers). - Superb client-facing presentation, pitching, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex AI capabilities into clear business value. - Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% for client pitches, site visits, and industry events. - Must have full-time permanent US work authorization. Additional Preferred Experience/Skills - Experience implementing Salesforce’s suite of platforms, such as CRM, Marketing Cloud, CDP/Data Cloud, and/or Tableau and CRMA. - Hands-on experience with code-automation or AI productivity tools. - Previous experience working in a cross-functional role that bridges technical and business teams. Benefits - Flexible working hours with an emphasis on a life-work balance (in that order!). - Remote flexible work; “Live by the beach, work in the Cloud,” plus company office locations in Palm Coast, FL; Atlanta, GA; Tysons, VA & Lexington, KY; travel as required to client locations. - Unlimited Paid Time Off (RTO), 401K with Company Match, and Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage. - Competitive quarterly bonus opportunities. - Continuing education and certification reimbursements, specifically within the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Salesforce ecosystems; plus occasional in-house competitions with spot bonuses. - A flexible and fun team culture! We value transparency, support, flexibility, growth, teamwork, fun, and so much more. - Frequent team and culture activities, virtual & in-person, including Lunch and Learns, Happy Hours, team-building events. - Monthly All-Hands calls to bring the company together, and an open-door leadership policy with access to mentorship and guidance. - Opportunities for accelerated growth, networking, and career guidance and support. - Trust, transparency, and respect across all levels of the company.

• Write prompts in your native language designed to test an AI model. • Evaluate the AI's responses using a structured rating guide. • Identify areas where the AI's responses can be improved. • Translate your prompts and evaluations into English.

• Partner with customers to understand their business goals, challenges and technology landscape • Lead AI discovery workshops, technical assessments and solution design sessions • Identify high-impact AI use cases and evaluate their business value and technical feasibility • Assess existing systems, architecture and engineering capabilities to determine AI readiness • Recommend AI solutions, implementation approaches and technology roadmaps tailored to customer needs • Translate business objectives into clear technical strategies and delivery plans • Collaborate with AI Engineers, Solution Architects, Data Engineers and business stakeholders throughout the engagement • Support pre-sales activities, customer presentations and technical demonstrations • Provide trusted technical guidance throughout the AI adoption journey • Stay up to date with emerging AI technologies, industry trends and best practices

Role Description Join an advanced AI research initiative focused on improving how next-generation AI systems understand professional documents, execute complex instructions, and reason through real-world technical workflows. We are seeking experienced technology professionals to design high-quality benchmark tasks that evaluate AI performance across software engineering and data science domains. In this role, you will create realistic, multi-step evaluation tasks based on technical documentation, code repositories, API references, architecture diagrams, and other workplace resources. Your work will help measure and improve the ability of AI models to interpret technical information, follow detailed instructions, and generate accurate, well-structured outputs. This is a fully remote, independent contractor opportunity with flexible working hours. Key Responsibilities - Design AI Evaluation Tasks - Create realistic, multi-step benchmark tasks based on professional technology workflows. - Develop challenges using technical specifications, architecture documents, API documentation, codebases, web research, and code execution. - Ensure each task includes a clearly defined expected output and objective evaluation criteria. - Develop Evaluation Standards - Write comprehensive ground-truth solutions and structured scoring rubrics. - Design tasks that assess reasoning, technical understanding, instruction following, and output quality. - Maintain high standards of technical accuracy, clarity, and reproducibility. - Contribute Domain Expertise - Apply real-world knowledge from software engineering, data science, or analytics to create authentic evaluation scenarios. - Collaborate with research teams to improve benchmark quality and consistency. - Continuously refine tasks based on project feedback and evolving evaluation requirements. Qualifications - Minimum 3 years of hands-on professional experience in one or more of the following areas: - Software Engineering - Data Science - Data Analytics - Strong understanding of technical documentation, software development workflows, and engineering best practices. - Experience working with codebases, APIs, technical specifications, or system architecture documentation. - Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. - Strong written communication with the ability to create clear technical instructions and evaluation criteria. - Ability to work independently while maintaining high standards of accuracy and consistency. Engagement Details - Independent contractor engagement. - Fully remote with flexible working hours. - Expected commitment of 15–20 hours per week. - Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on business needs and performance. - Weekly payments processed through supported payment platforms. Why Join - Help shape the next generation of AI systems for technical reasoning and document understanding. - Work on intellectually challenging projects involving real-world engineering and data science workflows. - Apply your technical expertise to improve advanced AI evaluation benchmarks. - Enjoy flexible remote work with meaningful impact on AI research. Equal Opportunity Statement We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request. Contract Information - Independent contractor engagement. - Fully remote work completed on your own schedule. - Weekly payments are processed based on approved work completed. - Work does not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution. - Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.