About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Marketing AI & Automation based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Marketing AI roadmap, prioritizing use cases according to business impact, reclaimed capacity, strategic value, and available resources
- Manage the full journey from idea through pilot, production, and operational ownership, including stage-gate processes and effective handoffs
- Establish and oversee an agent and orchestration platform, including reusable components, data integrations, vendor integrations, and supporting infrastructure
- Lead AI governance for marketing by establishing agent audits, brand-risk assessments, exclusion zones, and review processes
- Drive adoption through structured enablement programs and a network of embedded AI liaisons
- Build and lead a new multidisciplinary team, recruiting strategic and technical talent
- Measure and communicate the value of AI initiatives, including capacity gained, speed to market, business impact
- Continuously identify and shape future AI opportunities, develop investment cases, evaluate existing initiatives
- Partner with marketing, engineering, legal, brand, data, and other stakeholders
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across marketing technology, growth engineering, applied AI, technical product, or related fields, including at least 4 years of team leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience taking AI use cases from proof of concept through scaled production
- Strong understanding of marketing functions and workflows
- Strong technical fluency in agent orchestration, data integration, AI evaluation, and modern marketing technology architectures
- Familiarity with modern composable technology stacks, including customer data platforms, reverse ETL, cloud data platforms, and enterprise LLM tooling
- Experience building or leading a center of excellence, platform team, or center-led function
- Proven judgment in managing brand, legal, privacy, and other risks associated with AI systems
- Strong ability to influence outcomes across teams and roadmaps
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and managing AI and marketing technology vendors
- Bachelor's degree required; an advanced degree in a technical or business discipline such as an MBA, Computer Science, Engineering, or Analytics is a plus
Conditions
- Remote work across the United States
- Base salary of $231,000–$369,000 annually in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington State, and Washington, DC
- Base salary of $219,500–$350,600 annually in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia
- Eligibility for equity awards
- Distributed-work model designed around flexibility, trust, collaboration, and productivity
- Inclusive and innovative work environment