Vice President of Technology - Retail

Korn Ferry has partnered with our client on their search for a role, Vice President of Technology.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a forward-thinking, execution-obsessed VP of Technology to lead our client’s Web Engineering, AI Engineering, Data Engineering, Enterprise Applications, and Information Technology functions. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role will set and scale our client’s end-to-end technology strategy during a period of aggressive growth and innovation.

This leader will be responsible for building a scalable technology foundation that enables our client to move faster, make better decisions, and support increasing transaction volume, channel complexity, retail expansion, and organizational growth.

• Define our client’s long-term technology vision, roadmap, architecture, and investment priorities.
• Align technology initiatives with business OKRs and the Digital Product roadmap.
• Establish a scalable technology architecture capable of supporting our client’s continued growth across DTC, Wholesale, and Owned Retail.
• Drive build-versus-buy decisions with an eye toward speed, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Serve as the executive-level voice for technology across the organization and with our client’s Board.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and identify opportunities to create meaningful competitive advantage through technology.

AI Engineering & Strategy

• Define and execute our client’s enterprise AI strategy and roadmap, identifying the highest-impact opportunities to apply AI across the business.
• Lead the development and deployment of AI-powered solutions, agents, and automation that improve employee productivity, customer experiences, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
• Establish the technical architecture and infrastructure required to securely integrate AI capabilities with our client’s data, systems, and workflows.
• Partner with business leaders to identify and prioritize AI use cases based on business value, feasibility, scalability, and speed to impact.
• Build the capabilities, governance, and operating model required to move AI initiatives rapidly from experimentation to production.
• Evaluate emerging AI platforms, models, and development tools, balancing speed of adoption with security, cost, reliability, and long-term scalability.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled development and productivity tools across the organization while establishing appropriate standards for security, data privacy, and responsible use.
• Build and develop internal AI engineering capabilities while selectively leveraging external partners and platforms where they accelerate execution.

Enterprise Applications & Business Systems

• Own the strategy, architecture, scalability, and operational performance of our client’s core enterprise application ecosystem, including ERP, planning, PLM, integration/middleware, EDI, and warehouse management systems.
• Establish scalable application support, integration, release management, and change-management practices that improve system reliability and business continuity.
• Partner closely with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Retail, and Commercial teams to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Drive decisions around system architecture, integrations, and build-versus-buy opportunities with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, speed, and cost efficiency.
• Oversee strategic technology vendors and implementation partners, establishing clear accountability for delivery, service levels, cost, and performance.
• Ensure our client’s core systems and integrations can scale with increasing transaction volume, channel complexity, retail expansion, and organizational growth.
• Lead the Web Engineering function…