Director of AI

Fortis Games • San Francisco, CA

12d

About The Position

As the Director of AI at Fortis, you will own and drive the company-wide strategy for how Artificial Intelligence is integrated, adopted, and scaled across every part of our business - from game development and creative production to publishing, LiveOps, and internal operations. You are the company’s AI vision holder - responsible for defining where we invest, why, and how it creates measurable business impact. You will oversee our AI R&D efforts, including management of our AI Engineering team, prioritizing, guiding and scoping AI explorations and ensuring the right problems are being solved for the right reasons. You will operate at the intersection of engineering, R&D, game studios, creative operations, and business leadership - driving organizational adoption, influencing workflows, and integrating AI into the fabric of how Fortis builds games. This role is deeply cross-functional, highly entrepreneurial, and critical to Fortis’ long-term success.

Requirements

• Strong technical fluency in AI/ML concepts - able to debate architecture, evaluate tradeoffs, and challenge assumptions without needing to code.
• Proven experience leading 0→1, cross-functional initiatives with measurable, org-wide outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and behavior change, not just build tools or ship features.
• Deep understanding of creative or production workflows, ideally including game development pipelines (art, engineering, content).
• Exceptional strategic decision-making, balancing long-term vision with tactical prioritization in ambiguous environments.
• Credibility with both technical and creative teams, with strong communication skills and stakeholder alignment instincts.
• Entrepreneurial bias for action, comfortable operating in a fast-moving, unstructured environment without relying on process or hierarchy.
• Low-ego, high-ownership mindset, focused on outcomes, clarity, and collaboration rather than politicking or title-driven leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define Fortis’ AI strategy and roadmap, setting clear priorities that align technical feasibility with business ROI.
• Lead and manage AI R&D, guiding a technical team toward high-impact, commercially meaningful outcomes.
• Translate ambiguous cross-functional problems into clear requirements, determining what gets built, why, and in what order.
• Drive org-wide adoption of AI workflows, ensuring new tools and systems are actually used, not just delivered.
• Run pilot initiatives across art, engineering, production, and publishing to validate real-world value and scale successful solutions.
• Establish success metrics and measurement frameworks that quantify efficiency gains, creative acceleration, and bottom-line impact.
• Champion AI education and alignment, helping teams understand capabilities, limitations, and responsible implementation.
• Create the operating model for AI at Fortis, defining processes, principles, and repeatable mechanisms for continuous innovation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees