About the Role
The Director of Implementation will own the end-to-end implementation of The Machine, Code & Theory's AI orchestration platform, within customer and agency environments. This role involves scoping engagements, leading deployment, integrating with existing tooling, and driving adoption to achieve measurable outcomes. You will lead a team of implementation engineers and solution architects, acting as the crucial link between the platform's capabilities and customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end implementation of the Machine across customer and agency environments, from technical scoping through deployment, integration, and adoption
- Write code daily as part of the implementation process
- Stand up and lead a team of implementation engineers and solution architects
- Set delivery standards and be accountable for the quality and pace of every engagement
- Translate customer requirements into deployment plans
- Work closely with the platform engineering team to surface gaps and prioritize integrations
- Feed real-world needs back into the roadmap
- Design integrations against customer tools such as Figma, Slack, Teams, Adobe, and performance dashboards
- Drive adoption post-go-live by defining success metrics and steering teams toward them
- Provide enablement, instrumentation, and follow-through to ensure successful adoption
- Partner across engineering, account, and customer stakeholders
- Coordinate reporting lines and expectations to ensure a cohesive delivery effort
Requirements
- A track record of leading technical implementations or professional-services delivery for a software or platform product, ideally in environments with demanding enterprise customers
- Strong technical fluency across cloud, integrations, and APIs
- Ability to architect a deployment and debug an integration
- Experience earning the trust of engineers
- Fantastic verbal communication and presentation skills
- Experience owning customer relationships through delivery, including difficult conversations about scope, timelines, and tradeoffs
- People leadership experience, including in matrixed or cross-functional structures
- A bias toward adoption and outcomes
- Conviction about what separates a deployed tool from one a team actually uses
- Comfort leveraging AI-enabled development tools and workflows to accelerate engineering, automation, debugging, and operational tasks
- Experience orchestrating multi-step AI or agent-driven workflows
- Experience selecting appropriate models, tools, and execution patterns for different use cases
- Strong judgment reviewing and hardening AI-assisted output for security, scalability, maintainability, and architectural fit
- Experience building or maintaining prompts, evaluation frameworks, documentation, or operational context systems
- Familiarity with automated evaluation and feedback loops for AI-enabled systems and workflows
Skills
- Cloud
- Integrations
- APIs
- AI-enabled development tools
- AI orchestration
- Prompt engineering
- AI evaluation frameworks
- AI operational context systems
- AI feedback loops
Location
- North America
- South America
- Europe
- Asia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 – $225,000
About the Company
- Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency founded in 2001, operating at the intersection of creativity and technology.
- The company solves consumer and business problems and helps establish new capabilities for clients.
- Code and Theory has a global client roster of Fortune 100 companies and startups.
- The agency has teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
- The Code and Theory global network includes agencies such as Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.
- The company works across various categories including tech, CPG, financial services, travel & hospitality, government, education, media, and publishing.
- Key clients include Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
- The Code and Theory network comprises nearly 2,000 people, with a 50/50 split between engineers and creative talent.
- The company seeks smart, driven, and forward-thinking individuals.
