Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Data

Patrick Industries, a publicly traded company headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, invites you to join a team of dedicated Team Members who are passionate about delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. As a leading solutions provider serving a diverse range of markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high growth, diversified and empowered Team of more than 10,000! Your adventure awaits! Patrick Industries is building its enterprise AI and data capability from the ground up — and is searching for the executive to lead it. This is a rare “zero-to-one” mandate inside a profitable, acquisitive company with 65+ years of entrepreneurial execution and 85+ operating brands: a staged, multi-year investment behind a use-case portfolio carrying more than $150M of identified value across 70+ initiatives, spanning customer-centric operations, aftermarket commerce, and back-office automation. The Vice President of AI & Data will set the operating model, formulate the AI and data investment strategy, build and scale the delivery team, own the data foundation on which it all depends, and run the engine that turns strategy into production-grade and measurable value. The Role Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Vice President of AI & Data governs, prioritizes, and delivers the enterprise AI, data, and automation initiatives that drive measurable business value across Patrick Industries. The role is the execution engine behind the enterprise AI strategy — and the steward of the data foundation beneath it — translating prioritized use cases into scalable, production-grade solutions through a DevOps-enabled, agile delivery model, and ensuring a disciplined delivery capability that is fast without being fragile. Operating at the intersection of business and technology, the VP carries full lifecycle accountability — from intake and prioritization through build, deployment, and scaled adoption — and is expected to stay at the leading edge of a fast-moving field, continuously evaluating new models, agentic frameworks, and tools and translating them into pragmatic, well-governed advantage. The leader drives clear traceability from each use case to defined KPIs and business outcomes, strengthens the data-governance leg of the enterprise Digital Backbone, and aligns delivery to Patrick’s IT Strategic Pillars: Innovative Advantage – Scale AI-, data-, and automation-driven capabilities that unlock new business value. Value Optimization – Ensure measurable ROI, efficiency gains, and capital discipline. Agility & Efficiency – Enable rapid, iterative delivery through modern DevOps practices. Resilient Operations – Keep AI and data solutions secure, stable, and well-governed. Areas of Responsibility The mandate spans the operating capabilities the VP will stand up to govern, deliver, and sustain AI and data at enterprise scale. Govern &…