Associate Director, AI & Creative Transformation (US)

Job Description

Code and Theory is hiring an Associate Director to work at the core of content and creative transformation engagements within our Enterprise Transformation practice. You will map existing creative workflows, redesign them, and build the AI-powered pipelines that prove the new model works inside real client environments. Building is not a differentiator in this role. It is the job. The right person comes from creative technology, production engineering, or applied AI in creative contexts — not from consulting alone. You operate inside the workflow, not above it. Depending on the client engagement, this role operates in a forward-deployed capacity — embedded inside a client team, working alongside their creative directors, producers, MarTech leads, and engineers to redesign and ship workflows in real time. That is not a separate track or program. It is a mode this work requires, and the expectation is that you are ready for it when the account calls for it. WHAT YOU’LL DO Map the creative workflow end-to-end: brief, concepting, production, review, localization, activation, measurement — find the bottlenecks the team has stopped seeing Diagnose root causes of operational friction: handoff failures, approval bottlenecks, tooling mismatches, governance gaps Redesign the workflow for target-state operations: AI-powered where it accelerates throughput, human judgment where it must stay in the loop Configure and integrate creative AI platforms against real brand and channel requirements: Adobe Firefly Services, GenStudio, ComfyUI, Figma plugins, Pencil, Typeface, Weavy Wire pipelines into the existing stack — DAM, CMS, Workfront, MarTech — so they run inside the team’s day, not alongside it Build prompt architectures, agent workflows, and quality gates that hold up under production volume Demonstrate value fast: a working pipeline inside the client’s actual process is more persuasive than any roadmap Stand up g