[Hiring] Director, AI Transformation @Rare Beauty Brands

Role Description

Rare Beauty Brands is hiring a Director, AI Transformation to move the company from using AI tools to running on them. The role reports directly to the President & CEO and works across every function: brand, digital and ecommerce, marketing, supply chain, finance, and people.

Most companies, RBB included, have adopted AI at the individual level. The next stage involves:

• Redesigning how work gets done
• Building agents and automations into real processes
• Measuring the return on these initiatives

You will sit with each department head, find the friction in how their teams operate today, and then design, build, and ship solutions that remove it.

Responsibilities

• Find the work worth transforming
• Partner with each member of the executive leadership team to map current workflows, pain points, and sources of friction in their functions
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of AI and automation opportunities, ranked by business impact, effort, and risk
• Say no to shiny projects with no ROI, and be able to explain why
• Design, prototype, and deploy AI agents, automations, and integrations across our systems
• Do hands-on work yourself where it is faster, and direct vendors, agencies, or internal builders where it is not
• Own the technical architecture: how our tools connect, where data lives, how agents get access, and what guardrails are in place
• Lead the change management side: training, documentation, adoption tracking, and partnering with teams to redesign processes
• Build internal capability so the company gets more self-sufficient over time
• Own AI governance at RBB and chair a small AI governance group that approves policy and signs off on higher-risk deployments
• Update and maintain RBB’s AI policy
• Run an agent and tool registry
• Set guardrails for agents that take action
• Protect company and customer data
• Get ahead of shadow AI
• Own the response when an agent gets something wrong
• Track the privacy and AI regulations that apply to RBB
• Define the metrics for every major initiative before it starts and report against them
• Give the CEO and ELT a clear, regular read on what is working, what is not, and what is next
• Stay ahead of the AI curve, continually identifying disruption opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience spanning operations, technology, consulting, or product
• At least 2 years leading hands-on AI, automation, or digital transformation work
• Hands-on fluency with current AI tools and the ability to build with them
• Working knowledge of AI governance and data security
• A track record of changing how a team actually works
• Business judgment and the ability to read a P&L
• Strong communication skills to explain technical architecture and business cases
• Comfortable operating in a lean, fast-moving company

Requirements

• Experience in consumer products, beauty, or ecommerce
• Experience evaluating and managing vendors, agencies, or freelance developers
• Background in data: building reporting, defining metrics, cleaning up messy sources

Benefits

• $130,000-$150,000 annual salary plus bonus potential
• 401(k) plus employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off, including company-wide self-care days
• Ownership over a growing function at a fast-moving, founder-led beauty brand incubator

Company Description

Rare Beauty Brands is a prestige skincare company with a portfolio that includes Kate Somerville, Patchology, and Good Day. We are growing fast, and our strategy is clear: acquire and build mid-sized premium skincare brands that serve discerning consumers, and run them better than anyone else could. AI is now central to how we plan to do that. Rare Beauty Brands is an equal opportunity employer.