VP, Commercial - AI Data Solutions

WHO WE ARE Welcome to TELUS Digital, where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture. With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Enterprise Technology, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering. From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are, all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company. LOCATION & FLEXIBILITY This role can operate remotely within the US (we are prioritizing candidates based on the US West Coast) OR be based out of one of our major US office locations - Charlottesville, VA, Durham, NC, Columbus, OH, or Boston, MA. THE OPPORTUNITY TELUS Digital is seeking an enterprising Vice President of Commercial, AI Data Solutions, to own the commercial growth of our AI Data Training practice. This is a pure commercial leadership role responsible for acquiring, expanding, and retaining strategic relationships with the world's leading AGI and Generative AI builders. The VP will serve as the primary revenue driver and executive face of the business to clients. Our service offerings span the breadth of what modern AI development demands. On the Generative AI https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/generative-ai side, we partner with clients to build human-aligned datasets for fine-tuning and evaluating large language models, supporting workflows including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), red teaming, and bespoke dataset creation across more than 20 domains and 100 languages. For data collection https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/data-collection-services, we leverage a global AI Community of over one million contributors to deliver fully managed, multimodal datasets spanning text, audio, video, image, geo, and 3D data at any scale and complexity. Our data annotation https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/data-annotation-services capabilities transform raw, ambiguous data into contextually enriched training assets through advanced labeling services covering image and video, audio, text, and 3D sensor fusion. We also provide rigorous data validation https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/data-validation-services services, ensuring datasets are accurate, relevant, and production-ready through offerings such as search evaluation, ad evaluation, geo-location data verification, and machine translation quality assessment. Rounding out our portfolio, we offer a library of off-the-shelf datasets https://www.telusdigital.com/solutions/data-for-ai-training/off-the-shelf-data purpose-built for training and evaluating LLMs, computer vision models, and audio AI systems, providing clients with accessible, cost-effective solutions ready for immediate integration. The VP, Commercial - AI Data Solutions, is accountable for the growth, retention, and strategic direction of TELUS Digital's AI Data Training client portfolio. The successful candidate will build trusted partnerships with leading AGI and GenAI companies, delivering the high-quality human feedback, data annotation, evaluation, and RLHF services that power next-generation AI systems. RESPONSIBILITIES REVENUE GROWTH & ACCOUNT EXPANSION - Own year-over-year revenue growth across the AI Data Solutions client portfolio, setting and delivering against ambitio…