Director, Solutions Architect Agent AI

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

Versant is seeking a Director, AI Solutions Architecture to accelerate the adoption of AI across the enterprise. This role serves as a strategic technical leader, helping teams translate emerging AI capabilities into scalable business solutions that drive measurable impact.

Reporting to the VP of Innovation and Emerging Tech, this role will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Cybersecurity, Resilience, Data, and business stakeholders to establish architectural standards, shared platform capabilities, and reusable services that enable teams to safely and effectively build AI-powered applications and intelligent agents.

This position combines elements of enterprise architecture, platform engineering, applied AI, and technical strategy. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable engaging with senior leaders on enterprise technology strategy, partnering with engineers on implementation details, and rapidly evaluating new AI technologies and capabilities.

Why This Role Matters

AI is becoming a foundational capability across Versant’s business and technology ecosystem. This role will help define how AI solutions are designed, governed, and scaled across the enterprise while accelerating innovation, improving delivery efficiency, and ensuring AI investments deliver meaningful business value.

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