Vice President, Data Architecture, Engineering & AI (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Vice President, Data Architecture, Engineering & AI you will be responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution of data products that enable business growth, operational efficiency, and customer-centric innovation. This role partners closely with business and technology leaders to transform data into a strategic asset, delivering scalable, reliable, and user-friendly data solutions.

What You'll Do

• Define and own the data product and technical data science strategy, aligning with enterprise technology and business priorities
• Lead the design, development, and lifecycle management of data products that support business operations, customer insights, and innovation
• Build and scale data science capabilities, including machine learning, AI-driven solutions, and advanced analytics to optimize retail operations and customer engagement
• Partner with business units, analytics, engineering, and product management to prioritize high-value use cases for both data products and data science applications
• Oversee data governance, stewardship, and metadata management to ensure accuracy, compliance, and trust
• Champion modern data and AI architectures, including cloud-native platforms, APIs, data streaming services, and real-time analytics
• Drive data democratization, ensuring business users can easily discover, access, and leverage insights
• Foster a product mindset and a research-to-production pipeline for data science solutions, ensuring scalability and usability
• Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of data product managers, architects, engineers, and data scientists
• Define and monitor KPIs for both data products and data science initiatives, ensuring outcomes translate into tangible business impact
• Represent data and AI strategy at the executive level, influencing enterprise decisions and advocating for innovation
• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl's may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

Physical / Cognitive Requirements