Associate Director, AI Engagement Manager (US)

Code and Theory

$145K — $175K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience focusing on business outcomes with enterprise customers
  • Proven ability to build trust with executives and proactively engage stakeholders
  • Self-driven approach that favors leadership and initiative
  • Demonstrated measurable impact in previous roles
  • Hands-on experience with content supply chains or creative production workflows
  • Familiarity with the Adobe ecosystem and AI creative platforms
  • Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customer creative teams to understand their brand and production processes
  • Communicate insights effectively with both executives and creative staff
  • Define high-impact use cases with stakeholders and track their success
  • Advise on implementing AI-driven creative workflows
  • Identify and mitigate risks related to customer readiness and use case clarity
  • Facilitate workshops to align creative and AI workflows
  • Train client teams to ensure continued value post-engagement.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with top executive teams
  • Flexible, self-directed work environment
  • Engagement in impactful, measurable client projects
  • Work alongside specialists in creative technology and AI
  • Professional growth through diverse project involvement
  • Chance to play a key role in innovative AI transformation within creative processes.
Full Job Description
This is a customer-facing value and advisory role. You will bring a strong understanding of how the end-to-end content supply chain operates, from ideation and production through activation and measurement, so you can advise customers' creative teams with credibility and be accountable for the value each engagement is designed to deliver.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Engage with customer creative orgs to learn their brand system, production model, and the metrics leadership cares about
  • Communicate with executives through outcomes and insights (not status updates), and with designers, editors, and creative directors in their own language
  • Define and prioritize high-impact use cases with stakeholders: build the value hypothesis, hold engagements accountable to it, and measure/communicate progress toward realized outcomes
  • Advise on deploying and scaling AI-powered creative pipelines across the end-to-end content supply chain, helping customers grow from one proven workflow to full production volume
  • Recognize and mitigate risks from ill-defined use cases, insufficient scale, and customer readiness gaps
  • Understand what creative teams care about and give honest guidance even when it's not what they want to hear
  • Facilitate workshops that help creative teams map their production flow to AI workflows
  • Bring in creative technology, engineering, product, and program specialists as needed
  • Keep cross-functional teams aligned and synthesize customer feedback for product teams
  • Train customer teams and transition ownership cleanly so value continues after the engagement ends
  • Map future-state AI-powered workflows to current-state processes and roles, and build a change-management plan
  • Drive solution adoption through enablement sessions, demos, and partnership with Customer Success and Enablement teams

WHAT YOU'LL NEED
  • A strong track record of owning business outcomes with enterprise customers, rather than simply completing tasks and moving on
  • Real instinct and confidence for building and sustaining trust with executives, including a willingness to reach out boldly rather than waiting to be looped in
  • A self-directed style that creates momentum proactively, since this role rewards leading from the front over passive participation
  • Concrete examples of past work that translated into measurable business impact for a client
  • Hands-on experience with creative production workflows or content supply chains, ideally gained at enterprise companies or agencies
  • A background in creative operations, digital asset production, or content supply-chain management, specifically, is a plus
  • A genuine, end-to-end understanding of how the content supply chain works, from strategy and planning through production, activation, and measurement
  • Enough comfort with technology and product to hold credible conversations about feasibility and capability, ideally including hands-on experience in the Adobe ecosystem (Creative Cloud, Firefly, or GenStudio) or working knowledge of AI creative platforms like ComfyUI, Runway, or Claude Design
  • Experience working within an agile, pod-based software development lifecycle
  • Strong influence and facilitation skills, since this role involves coordinating specialists and cross-functional teams without direct authority over them
  • Good judgment for knowing when a situation calls for bringing in deeper expertise rather than trying to solve it solo
  • Bonus points for familiarity with specific creative workflows such as Assets at Scale, 3D, video, or product-asset production, or broader experience with AI-enabled workflow transformation in a creative or content-operations setting
  • Willingness to travel within the US (10-20%)

The compensation range for this role is $145,000 - $175,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.

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