[Hiring] Director of AI Solutions @SketchDeck

Role Description

This is a new role at SketchDeck, helping bring AI impact to our creative work. Key parts of the role:

• Consult with clients to understand current approaches and identify opportunities for AI in Creative Work (Key: strong client communication skills)
• Design and build AI solutions for our creative operations and clients and support team adoption
• Stay on top of the latest AI developments, understand how they can impact our work, and effectively share with the team

Note: In your first six months, about half your time will go to leading AI transformation for one of our enterprise clients, including quarterly trips to Houston, TX (two nights per trip).

You’ll report to the VP, Creative Impact.

How you’ll work with our creative and production leads:

• Our Creative Directors and Design Directors own the creative direction and design. You own the AI solution: what’s possible, what to build and how it gets used.
• They bring you the problem, you build the solution, and together you present it to the client.
• You’ll bring a strong design eye so the work meets our creative standard.
• You’ll also partner with our Production Directors on AI systems that make high-volume client production faster and more consistent.
• You’ll often support several leads at once, so clear communication matters as much as technical skill.

Working with clients:

• You'll be in front of clients alongside the creative lead.
• Consult with clients on what AI can and can’t do for their brand.
• Train their teams on new tools and workflows.
• Shape and present AI ideas in new business pitches.
• Join live projects where the work needs someone who can build it.

As the Director of AI Solutions, you'll have four areas of responsibility:

• CLIENT DEVELOPMENT: (25%)
  • Consult on how a client’s brand system needs to change for AI, and prototype AI-ready brand systems we can train tools on.
  • Define client AI governance: usage guidelines, approval flows and brand safeguards.
  • Build small client-facing tools and apps (e.g. an on-brand social asset builder).
  • Pressure-test ideas early with the Design Director leading new offerings, then turn what works into repeatable, documented offerings we can sell.
  • Join new business and pursuit calls as the AI voice, showing clients where AI fits at a roadmap level.
• TOOLS TO ENHANCE EXISTING WORK: (35%)
  • Map how client and internal teams work today, and flag which workstreams are ready for AI now, later or not at all.
  • Build and test AI workflows for design exploration, variations and templated systems on live accounts.
  • Work with Design Directors, Production Directors and Project Managers to find where workflows will stick, and run regular check-ins with leads on embedded programs.
  • Set up shared prompt and asset libraries, and document workflows so designers can use them on their own.
  • Track the time each workflow saves, so we know what’s worth keeping.
• EXPERIMENTATION AND ONE-TIME PROJECTS: (25%)
  • Take ideas from Design and Production Directors, tell them early what’s achievable, and build them fast while they’re still relevant to the client.
  • Open up new formats, including interactive experiences, AI video and playable pieces.
  • Build and present the AI concepts in new business pitches.
  • Jump onto live projects that need hands-on technical execution.
• RESEARCH AND SHARING WITH THE SKETCHDECK TEAM: (15%)
  • Explore new AI tools continuously and bring what’s worth our attention to the team, without waiting to be asked.
  • Share findings through short demos, recordings, posts and internal sessions that build the team’s AI fluency.
  • Keep a living record of what works, what doesn’t and what we’ve tried.

Qualifications

• 6+ years working with creative teams or in agency environments
• A portfolio or demos of what you’ve built with AI, and how you built it
• Hands-on experience with AI tools across image, video, text and prototyping, plus light development (prompting, low-code, no-code, building with AI assistance)
• A strong design eye, with working knowledge of Figma, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience redesigning work processes around AI, and a clear view on where AI fits, including when it doesn’t
• Comfortable consulting with clients and training teams through new ways of working
• Aware of the legal and client-permission questions around AI in creative work
• Self-directed and curious, comfortable with shifting priorities and supporting several leads at once
• Available during U.S. business hours

Requirements

• *Individual compensation packages are based on experience, demonstrated performance, market factors, and other job-related considerations.
• Salary range: $140,000 - $170,000 per year

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match
• Fully remote working environment (established pre-COVID and continuing forward)
• Paid time off that grows with tenure
• Annual company retreat
• Computer hardware of your choice (up to $2,500)
• $500 towards your office setup expenses
• To work with a talented team of designers, team members, and engineers