Senior Manager, Creative Tech, AI, and Transformation

Centric Brands•New York, NY

7d•$120,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Centric Brands is building the creative operating model for the next decade — one where generative AI, 3D and connected data are ordinary parts of how product gets designed, developed and marketed across a portfolio of more than 100 iconic brands. As Senior Manager, Creative Technology & AI Transformation, you turn ambitious ideas into scalable ways of working. You will partner with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Sales, Marketing, Studio and Technology to redesign workflows, launch new capabilities and move solutions from early experimentation into everyday use. This is a builder's role for someone who is equally comfortable in a design review, a vendor demo and a governance meeting and who measures success by adoption, not by pilots launched.

Requirements

5+ years of experience leading technology, transformation or program initiatives — ideally within creative, design, product development or marketing organizations.
Demonstrated ownership of an implementation lifecycle end to end: evaluation, pilot, onboarding, rollout and sustained adoption.
Working fluency with generative AI and creative technology — image and video generation, LLM-based workflows, 3D or digital product creation, DAM/PLM/creative platforms.
Strong change management and enablement instincts, with a track record of training and communications that moved adoption numbers.
Process design capability: the ability to map a messy current state and design a future state that people will actually follow.
Comfort operating cross-functionally with Technology, Legal, Security, Data and Procurement partners on governance and risk review.
Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complex technical capability into plain business value for creative and executive audiences.
Bias toward structure: roadmaps, decision logs, prioritization frameworks and reporting come naturally to you.

Nice To Haves

Apparel, accessories, beauty or consumer products experience — particularly wholesale and retailer-facing environments a plus.
Familiarity with 3D product creation tools (Browzwear, Substance) or AI creative tools (Raspberry AI, Node-Based Systems, Adobe Firefly, Claude).

Responsibilities

Transform ideas into scalable programs. Translate enterprise AI and creative technology priorities into structured, actionable programs —leading them from discovery and pilot through rollout, adoption and full production.
Redesign how creative work gets done. Partner with Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Sales, Marketing and Studio to simplify processes and design future-state workflows that connect people, platforms and data.
Bring emerging technology into the business. Support the rollout of generative AI, 3D, creative platforms and custom-built solutions — coordinating requirements, testing, feedback loops and production readiness.
Evaluate and onboard new capability. Run structured evaluations of AI and creative software — defining use cases, coordinating pilot groups, running comparative testing and assessing effectiveness before anything scales.
Drive adoption and engagement. Coordinate rollout strategies, onboarding, training and communications; grow a community of champions and power users across divisions so tools stick after launch.
Serve as the bridge between platforms and people. Act as the primary point of contact between software partners and internal users — managing escalations, resolving configuration issues before they grow, communicating roadmap changes and delivering enablement workshops that translate technical features into clear value for non-technical teams.
Connect strategy, governance and execution. Coordinate across Technology, Data, Legal, Security, Procurement and HR to support AI governance, risk review and production readiness — keeping governance in step with delivery rather than behind it.
Support the transformation operating model. Establish repeatable intake, prioritization, experimentation and rollout methods, supported by clear roadmaps, reporting and decision logs that give leadership visibility into risk and return.