You will serve as a central technical leader, coordinating across multiple teams - including Data Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Software Engineering, and Creative AI - to drive innovation, ensure delivery excellence, and align AI capabilities with business goals....MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU'LL DO: Senior Director, Engineering - Applied AI
Key Responsibilities
Applied AI Strategy & Execution
• Drive the technical roadmap for applied AI across key product and business areas, including content intelligence, personalization, automation, and creative tooling.
• Partner with other heads of engineering, business analysts and product owners to define how AI integrates into A+E Global Media's broader technology and product vision....ngineering, Platforms & Data
• Evaluate and implement cutting-edge AI techniques, including GenAI, LLMs, vision models, and recommendation systems.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and vendors to ensure the team remains at the forefront of innovation and leverages the best available tools for impact and scale.
• Drive development of custom AI solutions using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and model fine-tuning to meet business-specific needs across media, creative workflows, and internal business operations, including defining evals and benchmarks to ensure performance, grounding, and reliability.
• Design and lead systems that extract value from large, unstructured content sets - including PDFs, SharePoint documents, and multimedia assets (video, audio, image) - leveraging a combination of NLP, computer vision, multimodal models, LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and enterprise-scale retrieval techniques.
• Drive the thoughtful adoption of AI-powered tools with...Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Oversee the full lifecycle of applied AI systems, including model integration and orchestration - from prototyping and data exploration to deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to ensure robust data pipelines and experimentation workflows.
• Partner with Product teams to co-develop AI-enabled features and prioritize high-impact initiatives.
• Work closely with other internal A+E Engineering teams to embed applied AI into production systems.
• Serve as a key technical counterpart to the Creative Generative AI teams, enabling media and video generation capabilities....Preferred
• Experience working with large-scale data in Adtech or Advertising-related platforms is a plus.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar systems is a plus.
• Experience with AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) and deploying models to cloud environments is a plus
• Experience with data pipelines and integration patterns is a plus including MLOps
• Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures at scale and/or fine-tuning large language models.
• Experience with diffusion/image/video models is a nice to have
• Exposure to creative pipelines or AI-enhanced content workflows is a plus
• Background in statistical modeling or mathematics is a plus.
• Familiarity with data privacy, copyright, and ethical issues in applied AI applications is helpful but not needed
• Experience in the media, entertainment, or content-tech industry is a plus.