Director/Sr. Director, AI Transformation & Implementation

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York

Reporting To: VP, Cybersecurity

Description

Day One Agency—Fast Company’s #1 on the Most Innovative list —is hiring! 
We’re looking for a Director/Sr. Director, AI Transformation & Implementation to join our rising team. The successful candidate will be ambitious, and hard-working. You’ll take pride in your work, show initiative, and go the extra mile to ensure you are doing your best work. 
We’re looking for self-starters with deep AI experience who are excited to collaborate with our squad within a rewarding learning environment. Day one prides itself on being a place to grow and further your career.
Our company culture is at the core of everything we do. It’s what makes every day, Day One. We offer a highly collaborative environment where smart, passionate people come together to solve creative challenges. We work hard on the things we love.  It’s how we produced e.l.f. SKIN’s first-ever global brand campaign based on cultural insights that our team unlocked and how we honed in on the legacy of both Nike and Converse to contextualize each brand’s heritage with creative that resonates with the next generation.
Our relationships power us. Our colleagues, clients, and partners are the most important part of our business. If you want to join a fast-growing, award-winning, creative team, we’d love to hear from you.
This role is full-time, requires a hybrid work schedule, and is available only in New York City. 

Responsibilities

The Director, AI Transformation & Implementation is a critical role to develop and drive Day One Agency's AI deployment strategy across the agency’s internal business operations and client services delivery.  The ideal candidate is a proven individual contributor with technology and risk management expertise, who understands business objectives and scope to help deliver the expected results of AI platforms.  The successful candidate will lead the organization through change by spearheading the development of an AI strategy and ensuring AI projects align with and deliver tangible value to the company’s strategic goals.  This role champions a holistic approach by collaborating closely with creative, story, and business teams to align AI goals with overarching organizational objectives.  By enabling teams to seamlessly integrate AI technologies across departments, this role fosters innovation and efficiency, ensuring a unified and strategic deployment of AI capabilities to drive impactful outcomes. Key responsibilities will include: 

• Dedicated focus on AI platform integration at the enterprise level.  Manage and deploy AI solutions portfolio agency-wide in collaboration with IT, dynamically accounting for necessary updates or changes.
• Evaluate adoption of new and existing AI technology from a business risk standpoint.
• Proactively searching for new developments in the evolving AI solutions landscape and how this integrates with trends in culture, consumer insights, and technology.
• Align teams with AI adoption in a structured and focused manner, prioritizing client service delivery and streamlining AI solution use in internal business operations.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of AI technology evolution in a business use context and evaluate new trends and patterns in AI adoption.  Drive adoption of AI solutions directly tied to how clients and other agencies use them.
• Serve as a cross-functional pivot point among agency teams, and interface with clients with respect to AI solutions and how data is used for client delivery.
• Ensure governance processes are followed.
• Identify the critical system components that require monitoring and escalation based on business risks.
• Drive clarity and transparency across agency departments and the client services pipeline.  Provide regular status updates, identify drivers of change, highlight blockers, and recommend and execute actions required to improve agency adoption of AI tools in our workflow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years relevant professional experience, or commensurate experience in AI implementation.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with enterprise deployment of AI platforms.
• Consistently informed about industry-relevant AI trends, tools, and applications, with proficiency in generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, MidJourney, Runway, DALL·E, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated experience as an individual contributor with the ability to influence and affect change in business operations.
• Experience leading change management initiatives in the technology space.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills with the ab