Creative Technology Director

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7d • Remote

About The Position

As a Creative Technology Director, you will be responsible for building agent pipelines, MCP servers, plugins, generative video systems, and voice agents for prominent brands. This role requires deep expertise in generative AI, design, and creative strategy within a dynamic agency setting. You will independently lead multiple projects, ensuring exceptional creative and technical quality while driving business objectives. This is a hands-on building role, with at least 75% of your time dedicated to coding and development.

Requirements

• 6+ years in design, strategy, product management, or related tech-forward environment.
• Proven ability to lead accounts or initiatives across multiple clients and verticals.
• Hands-on experience with production-ready tech stacks (Python, TypeScript, agent SDKs, MCP, GCP, etc.), and the latest AI models and tooling.
• Comfortable shaping AI-integrated workflows and a track record of using them to accelerate, enhance, or rethink processes.
• Strong instincts for systematizing creativity without diminishing it.
• Experience building scalable frameworks, modular systems, and process design.
• Natural team leader with a collaborative spirit.
• Confident providing oversight to junior team members, influencing cross-functional teams, and presenting to C-suite stakeholders.
• Ability to balance brand, audience, and business objectives with the opportunities and limits of emerging technology.
• A rich portfolio of past projects (repos, deployed demos, working agentic systems) showcasing strong tech and creative skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Fortune 500 brands or large-scale platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Agency Creative Tech Leadership: Balance storytelling with systems thinking to deliver effective and scalable work. Define the vision for AI-powered experiences across multiple projects and push the boundaries of machine-assisted technology.
• AI Architecture: Develop a strong point of view on AI engineering architecture, making decisions on tool calls, skills, subagents, retrieval strategies, and evaluation design.
• Rapid Prototyping + Experimentation: Stay updated on generative AI advancements and quickly build prototypes to test strategies and gain client buy-in. Determine the appropriate level of complexity for demos, from single-file prototypes to multi-package monorepos.
• Client + Cross-Functional Partnership: Confidently present technical possibilities and working software to executive-level clients in an understandable manner.
• Bias Towards Creative Excellence: Build systems that are accountable to and consistent with design systems, brand components, and factual information, ensuring high-quality output.
• Performance-Driven Optimization: Review the effectiveness of tools and campaigns, optimizing for performance using AI-derived insights (e.g., LangSmith, tracing, agent-logs) and qualitative feedback.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed