Director, AI Innovation

Director, Creative Technology

About the Role

We are seeking a Director, Creative Technology to help shape and scale technology-enabled capabilities across a creative organization. This is a strategic, hands-on role for someone who enjoys building practical AI solutions, developing prototypes, and improving creative workflows through emerging technologies.

This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of creativity, product innovation, and artificial intelligence, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify business challenges, rapidly test new ideas, and drive adoption of technology solutions that improve how creative work is produced.

Responsibilities

• Advance the organization’s Creative Technology roadmap by identifying opportunities to enhance existing platforms, workflows, automation, and AI capabilities.
• Build working prototypes using AI, automation, and emerging technologies to solve real business problems.
• Develop AI-powered tools, workflow automations, custom GPTs, and internal knowledge systems that improve creative operations.
• Collaborate with Creative, Product, Engineering, Sales, Information Security, Operations, and Research teams to translate business needs into scalable technology solutions.
• Organize and improve enterprise knowledge repositories, including creative assets, case studies, research, best practices, production processes, and documentation.
• Establish practical standards and governance for responsible AI usage, including quality, transparency, intellectual property, and human oversight.
• Evaluate prototype success through user feedback, workflow adoption, business impact, efficiency improvements, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive adoption of new technology solutions by partnering closely with stakeholders and supporting organizational change.
• Stay current on emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them to creative workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building working AI applications, prototypes, workflow automations, internal tools, or knowledge management solutions.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI technologies, Custom GPTs, AI platforms, APIs, automation tools, and emerging technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI technologies, or similar platforms is highly preferred.
• Product mindset with experience identifying business problems, developing prototypes, gathering user feedback, and iterating solutions.
• Experience improving creative workflows within media, entertainment, advertising, publishing, agency, or other creative environments is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of information architecture and knowledge management principles.
• Comfortable collaborating across Creative, Product, Engineering, Operations, Strategy, and Business teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, prioritize initiatives, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and relationship management skills.

Preferred Experience

• Generative AI
• Custom GPTs
• Microsoft Power Apps
• Microsoft Power Automate
• Microsoft Copilot
• OpenAI APIs
• AI workflow automation
• Prompt engineering
• Knowledge management systems
• API integrations
• Product development
• Creative technology
• Innovation strategy
• Cross-functional leadership
• Design thinking
• Enterprise AI adoption
• Workflow optimization

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a builder who enjoys experimenting with emerging technologies, rapidly developing prototypes, and transforming ideas into practical solutions. They combine technical fluency with product thinking and can effectively partner with both creative and technical teams to improve how work gets done. They are naturally curious, self-directed, and passionate about using AI to solve meaningful business challenges while driving adoption across the organization.