📝 Vice President, Research, Planning & Operations, are you there?

Hey there! We’re looking for a Vice President, Research, Planning & Operations for a global technology research and advisory firm focused on helping business and technology leaders make confident decisions about AI. If you are analytical and a clear communicator with hands-on experience in AI budgets, financial modeling, and enterprise AI deployments, keep reading!

🌎 100% Remote
💵 Salary in USD
📍 LATAM – Reporting to Boston, Eastern Time (ET)
🕒 Full Time
🇬🇧 Advanced English

About our client 🤓

You will be working for our client, a global research and advisory firm that is a leading provider of trusted technology intelligence, focused on helping business and technology leaders make confident decisions about strategy, investment, and innovation. They have a large worldwide analyst community and a strong reputation for credibility and impact. You will join their AI Economics research team, working alongside curious, high-caliber colleagues who value rigor, integrity, and shared success.

About Athyna 🙋🏻

Athyna is a Global Talent Platform, helping align world-class talent with the best employment opportunities across the globe.
We believe in the future of work. That’s why we are a 100% globally distributed team across 5 continents. We believe in people, and we value freedom, integrity, quality, and sustainability.
We’re proudly carbon neutral as an organization and 5% of all revenue funds impact-driven startups & climate tech. We’re very keen on social impact - we truly care about everyone on our team, and we want to make the world a better place for all of us.

In your day-to-day, you will 👇🏼

Contribute to the research agenda for enterprise AI economics, covering investment prioritization, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and value realization across business functions
Help develop and validate AI economic models covering cost structures, value realization, unit economics, payback, and scenario analysis
Advise CIOs, CFOs, and business leaders on AI portfolio decisions, including build or buy choices, deployment options, funding, scaling, and when to redesign or discontinue use cases
Build benchmarks and case studies across business functions and domain-specific processes
Partner with the sourcing advisory team to bring price benchmarks and commercial terms into the models
Produce syndicated and custom research, brief clients, and join executive discussions

Skills you have 🚀

Senior practitioner experience leading AI deployments in large organizations, with direct or shared accountability from business case and funding through production, adoption, and post-deployment performance
Hands-on delivery across multiple business functions or domains, such as finance, procurement, HR, customer service, and supply chain (several projects within a single function do not meet this requirement)
Direct responsibility for AI budgets, forecasts, and investment models covering capital and operating expenditure, cost structures, unit economics, and sensitivity analysis, including tracking actual costs and benefits against forecasts
Detailed knowledge of AI lifecycle costs: data, integration, licensing, compute, implementation, evaluation and monitoring, security and governance, adoption, and ongoing support
Proven ability to measure and realize business value, distinguishing cash savings, cost avoidance, capacity released, and revenue or margin contribution
Experience presenting to and advising CIOs and CFOs on AI investments, funding, and realized value
Ability to produce clear research and executive presentations, and to normalize survey and benchmark data into defensible models
Background in enterprise operating roles or consulting (consultants need hands-on delivery for large enterprise clients, with responsibility for implementation economics and post-launch results)
Bachelor’s degree
Advanced English

Skills that will make you stand out 💥

Master’s degree in a relevant field
Experience publishing research or developing reusable economic models
Experience advising multiple enterprise clients
Experience with generative AI and agentic AI

You’ll be entitled to 🙌🏼

💵 Salary in USD

🤗 Opportunity to work in an amazing environment