Director, Applied AI & Strategy

Work Locations: With the exception of select roles, A+E Global Media operates on a flexible model allowing for remote, hybrid, or full-time in-office work in certain locales. Office locations include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Stamford, CT. Eligible remote-work states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

About the role

A+E’s Technology team drives innovation by tackling complex challenges with modern, cloud-first solutions. We seek a Director of Applied AI & Strategy to architect an internal productivity revolution. In this hands-on leadership role, you will analyze workflows, design agentic AI interventions, and implement them to free teams for higher-value work. The ideal candidate has built production-grade AI solutions using LLMs and agents, and stays ahead of AI advancements relevant to media.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on AI Orchestration
  • Rapidly prototype and demonstrate agentic solutions to improve workflow efficiency, refining based on business feedback.
  • Build and deploy production-grade AI agents with guardrails, evaluations, and observability for accuracy, reliability, and safety.
  • Integrate AI agents with enterprise resources (e.g., MCP) and legacy applications via APIs.
  • Partner with Legal & Business Affairs and Cyber Security to ensure AI adoption aligns with governance.
  • Define and track productivity/ROI metrics (e.g., hours reclaimed, cost savings, efficiency gains).
  • Maintain composable toolsets for future agility.
• Industry Insights
  • Monitor AI developments relevant to media and provide leadership with actionable "Buy, Build, Ignore" frameworks.
• Administration
  • Translate leadership vision into a tactical technical roadmap, prioritizing high-ROI workstreams.
  • Manage scope and stakeholder expectations to move from proof-of-concept to production-ready solutions.
  • Audit emerging AI tools for alignment with media workflows.
  • Create budgets in high-ambiguity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated practical experience.
• 8+ years in a technical function (e.g., Solutions Architecture, Digital Transformation, Technical Operations) with a track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions, including systems integration and workflow automation.
• Expertise in architecting logic across complex SaaS ecosystems.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building production-ready agents with LLMs, including advanced prompting, multi-agent orchestration, RAG frameworks, and techniques for unstructured content curation/enrichment.
• 3+ years managing complex stakeholder relationships, translating business strategy into tactical execution.
• Rapid prototyping skills using AI-augmented tools (e.g., Cursor, Replit, Claude) to ship functional code/automations quickly.
• Hands-on experience with RAG architectures at scale and/or fine-tuning large language models.
• Certifications in AI/ML or cloud platforms (advantageous).
• Background in statistical modeling or mathematics (a plus).

Pay

Annual base pay range: $188,034–$220,000. Annual incentive target: 17.50%. Compensation varies by qualifications, skills, location, and experience. A+E offers a competitive total compensation package, including healthcare, 401k matching, and other benefits.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage.
• 401k matching.
• Additional benefits (learn more at www.aegm.com/careers).