AI Innovations Specialist
About The Position
At Lakeshirts, we don't wait for the future. We build it. Across our business, teams are already using artificial intelligence to streamline workflows, improve quality, and move faster. This role expands our commitment to Continuous Improvement by helping us stay nimble, thoughtful, and forward-thinking as technology evolves. We're looking for an AI Innovations Specialist who is excited to explore, experiment, and uncover practical opportunities where AI and automation can make a real impact. This role is part investigator, part builder, and part translator, connecting emerging technology with real business needs across manufacturing, operations, art, customer service, and support teams. Reporting to the IT Manager, you'll ask good questions, run pilots, document findings, and clearly communicate recommendations. Project management and process ownership remain with our PMO and department teams. This role calls for a helper-not-a-hero mentality: someone who shares knowledge, supports team ownership, and leaves behind clear documentation.
Requirements
- One or more years of experience with AI tools, automation platforms, or emerging technology in a business setting.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI, prompt engineering, workflow automation, or similar tools.
- Excellent written documentation skills and strong attention to detail.
- Strong verbal communication and active-listening skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- A helper-not-a-hero mentality: humble, collaborative, willing to share knowledge, and focused on helping teams succeed.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify solutions.
- Organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple priorities with consistent follow-through.
- Employee must be able to see and hear, read and write.
- Requires adaptability, analyzing, assessing, calculating, decision making, dependability, judgment, reading, speaking, following direction, handling multiple priorities, and reasoning.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in manufacturing, operations, apparel, or Continuous Improvement is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Research and evaluate AI tools and technologies that may improve Lakeshirts workflows, quality, or speed.
- Work with departments to understand current processes and identify practical AI opportunities.
- Design and run structured AI pilots, then document results and present clear recommendations.
- Build and test prompts, workflows, and automation concepts to validate ideas before rollout.
- Partner with the IT Manager to prioritize initiatives and keep stakeholders informed.
- Create clear pilot notes, user guides, process documentation, and handoff materials.
- Support teams in learning and effectively using approved AI tools.
- Stay current on AI trends and contribute to teamwork and Continuous Improvement.
Benefits
- Compensation guided by meritocracy with a daily pay option
- Health and life insurance
- Voluntary dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, critical illness, and accident coverage beginning the first of the month following 60 days of full-time employment
- Up to 22 paid days off during the first year
- Profit sharing
- A 401(k) program
- Subsidized onsite breakfast, lunch, and snacks at Detroit Lakes HQ
- Dogs at work
- A relaxed dress code
- An employee merchandise discount
- Flexible work schedules based on role and business needs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
