Creative Technology Director

<p><strong>Creative Technology Director<br><br></strong></p>
<p><strong>Location</strong>: Remote-first (US-based preferred)<br><strong>Team</strong>: AI Content and Creative Technology</p>
<p>Reporting to <em>Group Director, AI Content and Creative Technology</em>, you’ll build agent pipelines, MCP servers, plugins, generative video systems, and voice agents for some of the world’s best-known brands. </p>
<p>You’ll bring deep expertise in generative AI, design, and creative strategy to a dynamic agency environment, independently leading multiple projects and creating work that excels in both creative and technical craft while also driving real business goals. This is a hands-on building role — expect at least 75% of your time to be spent in a repo.</p>
<p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Agency Creative Tech Leadership:</strong> You’ll balance storytelling with systems thinking to deliver work that is effective and scalable. You’re able to define the vision for AI-powered experiences across multiple projects and can help Addition push the boundaries of what’s possible with machine-assisted tech.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>AI Architecture: </strong> A strong point of view on AI engineering architecture. You’re confident in deciding what needs to be a tool call vs. a skill vs. a subagent; when a retrieval beats a bigger prompt; and how to design an eval before building a feature.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Rapid Prototyping + Experimentation</strong>: Track what’s new and possible in the world of generative AI and quickly build working prototypes to pressure test your strategies and/or get buy-in from clients. You instinctually know when the situation calls for a one-file demo, and when to deploy a multi-package monorepo.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Client + Cross-Functional Partnership: </strong>Confidently present both technical possibilities and working software to executive-level clients in a way they can understand.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Bias Towards Creative Excellence:</strong> You build machinery that is accountable to and consistent with real design systems, brand components and retrieved facts, and which never looks like hastily generated slop.  <br><br></li>
<li><strong>Performance-Driven Optimization: </strong>You have the ability to review the effectiveness of our tools and campaigns and optimize for performance, using both AI-derived insights (LangSmith, tracing, agent-logs/ directories) and qualitative feedback.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Experience:</strong> 6+ years in design, strategy, product management, or related tech-forward environment. Proven ability to lead accounts or initiatives across multiple clients and verticals. Experience working with Fortune 500 brands or large-scale platforms is a plus.</li>
<li><strong>Engineering Fluency:</strong> Hands-on experience with production-ready tech stacks (Python, TypeScript, agent SDKs, MCP, GCP, etc), as well as the latest in AI models and tooling. Comfortable shaping AI-integrated workflows, and a track record of using them to accelerate, enhance, or rethink how things get done.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Creative Ops + Systems Thinking: </strong>Strong instincts for how to systematize creativity without diminishing it. Experience building scalable frameworks, modular systems, and process design.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Creative Leadership + Influence:</strong> Natural team leader with a collaborative spirit. Equally confident providing oversight to junior team members, influencing cross-functional teams, and presenting to C-suite stakeholders.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Strategic Acumen:</strong> Ability to balance brand, audience, and business objectives with the opportunities (and limits) of emerging technology. You see both the forest and the trees.Portfolio: A rich portfolio of past projects (repos, deployed demos, working agentic systems) that showcase strong tech and creative skills in equal measure. <br><br></li>
</ul>