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About the Role
We are seeking a Director, Applied AI & Strategy to lead an internal productivity revolution by applying agentic AI to analyze workflows, design interventions, and implement solutions, freeing up employees for higher-value work. This is a hands-on leadership role for an individual experienced in building production-grade AI solutions using LLMs and agents, with knowledge of harness engineering and a pulse on AI advancements relevant to the business.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly prototype and demonstrate agentic solutions to improve workflow efficiency.
- Refine prototypes based on business feedback for production alignment.
- Help provide cost estimates for business cases and decision-making.
- Build and deploy production-grade AI agents using various AI tools.
- Incorporate guardrails, evaluations, and observability into AI agents for accuracy, reliability, and safety.
- Integrate AI agents with enterprise resources through MCP.
- Integrate enterprise applications, including legacy systems, with agents via APIs.
- Partner with Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA) and Cyber Security to ensure AI adoption adheres to guardrails and governance.
- Define and track Productivity & ROI metrics, including hours reclaimed, cost savings, and efficiency increases.
- Maintain composability in toolsets for future agility.
- Stay at the forefront of AI developments relevant to the Media Industry and update leadership.
- Provide leadership with actionable “Buy, Build, Ignore” frameworks for AI tools that address media & entertainment friction points.
- Translate high-level leadership vision into a tactical technical roadmap, prioritizing workstreams for highest ROI.
- Rigorously manage scope and stakeholder expectations to move from Proof-of-Concept to Production-Ready.
- Perform technical and functional audits of emerging AI tools relevant to media industry workflows.
- Create sensible budgets in high-ambiguity environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated practical experience.
- 8+ years of total experience in a technical function (e.g., Solutions Architecture, Digital Transformation, or Technical Operations).
- Proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions and advanced workflow integration.
- Demonstrated experience in systems integration and workflow automation.
- Expert in architecting logic across complex SaaS ecosystems.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building production-ready agents with LLMs.
- Proficiency in advanced prompting techniques, multi-agent orchestration, and RAG Frameworks.
- Solid grasp of unstructured content and techniques for curation, enrichment, and accurate retrieval for LLM context injection.
- 3+ years of experience managing complex stakeholder relationships.
- Proven ability to translate high-level business strategy into tactical execution plans.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a “Vibe Coder” using AI-augmented development tools (e.g., Cursor, Replit, Claude) to ship functional code and automations at high velocity.
- Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures at scale and/or fine-tuning large language models.
- Certifications in AI/ML technologies and cloud platforms are an advantage.
- Background in statistical modeling or mathematics is a plus.
Skills
- Agentic AI
- LLMs
- Harness Engineering
- AI Advancements
- Rapid Prototyping
- Agent Development
- Agent Integration
- APIs
- Productivity & ROI Measurement
- Composability
- Industry Insights
- AI/ML Technologies
- Cloud Platforms
- Statistical Modeling
- Mathematics
- Advanced Prompting Techniques
- Multi-agent Orchestration
- RAG Frameworks
- Unstructured Content Curation
- Context Injection
- AI-augmented Development Tools
Location
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Stamford, CT
Work Type
- Collaborate in office 3 times per week
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ Years of total experience in a technical function
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building with LLMs for production ready agents
- 3+ years of experience managing complex stakeholder relationships
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- Annual Pay Range: $188,034 - $220,000
- Annual Incentive Target: 17.50%
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
- A range of other benefits
About the Company
- A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
Equal Opportunity
- A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
- The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.