Associate Director, AI Engagement Manager (US)

Code and Theory

$145K — $175K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York, NY
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in managing enterprise customer relationships with proven business outcomes
  • Ability to engage and build trust with executives proactively
  • Self-motivated, with a focus on leading initiatives rather than passive participation
  • Demonstrated measurable impact from past work in creative production or content supply chains
  • Familiarity with creative operations or digital asset production, preferably in large organizations
  • End-to-end knowledge of content supply chain processes and their metrics
  • Proficient in technology discussions, particularly within the Adobe ecosystem and AI creative platforms
  • Strong skills in influencing and coordinating cross-functional teams effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Engage and understand customer creative organizations and their operational metrics
  • Communicate insights and outcomes effectively across different levels of the organization
  • Define and prioritize impactful use cases with stakeholders and measure outcomes
  • Advise on implementing and scaling AI-driven creative workflows
  • Identify and address risks in use case development and customer readiness
  • Provide honest guidance to creative teams about their needs and expectations
  • Facilitate workshops to align production workflows with AI capabilities
  • Synthesize customer feedback and ensure team alignment throughout engagements
  • Train customer teams for long-term ownership of solutions and results
  • Design change-management plans to facilitate workflow transitions from current to future states
  • Drive adoption of solutions through training and collaboration with customer success teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training and transition support for customer teams
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in the creative industry
  • Dynamic team environment with cross-functional collaboration
  • Flexibility in approach and execution, rewarding a proactive style.
  • Possible travel for workshops and facilitation (10-20%).
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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