Forward Deployed Engineer, AI – Creative Transformation

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in London is seeking a senior specialist in creative technology and AI-enabled content operations to lead end-to-end workflow design.

You will partner with creative directors, producers, and marketing technologists to deliver production-ready AI-driven solutions that scale across client engagements. You will lead automation initiatives, integrate with DAMs and CMS, and mentor teams to adopt new workflows across projects.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in creative tech, content operations, production engineering, marketing tech, automation, or applied AI.
• Proven track record shipping production-ready solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Experience working across both creative and technical stakeholder groups.
• Translate operational challenges into scalable workflow solutions.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying creative, content, or marketing workflow solutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise creative ecosystems including AEM, Workfront, Firefly, Figma.
• Ability to communicate with creative directors, producers, brand ops, and marketing tech stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Map creative workflows end-to-end from briefing to measurement.
• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and automation opportunities.
• Diagnose root causes of workflow friction including approvals and governance.
• Design future-state workflows balancing AI automation and human oversight.
• Configure and implement creative AI platforms against real production needs.
• Integrate AI-powered workflows with DAMs, CMS, marketing tech stacks, and PM tools.
• Build prompt architectures, agent workflows, automation layers, and QC at production scale.
• Develop proofs of concept and production-ready solutions with measurable value.
• Iterate rapidly within active client engagements.
• Establish governance for brand safety, rights management, model selection, and compliance.
• Train teams to adopt new workflows and technologies.
• Define and track metrics like throughput, cycle time, and cost-per-asset.
• Contribute to project scoping and solution design across content ops and marketing tech initiatives.
• Develop reusable accelerators, templates, tooling configurations, and best practices.
• Evolve internal methodologies and delivery frameworks for future engagements.

Skills

Creative tech

Content ops

Production eng

Automation

Applied AI

AI agents

Workflow orchestration

Stakeholder mgmt

LLMs

Tools

Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Workfront

Adobe Firefly

Figma

Job description

Responsibilities

• Map creative workflows end-to‑end, including briefing, concepting, production, review, localization, activation, and measurement.
• Identify operational bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation.
• Diagnose root causes of workflow friction, including approval delays, handoff failures, tooling gaps, and governance challenges.
• Design future‑state workflows that effectively balance AI automation and human oversight.
• Configure and implement creative AI platforms and tools against real production requirements.
• Integrate AI‑powered workflows into existing ecosystems, including DAMs, CMS platforms, marketing technology stacks, and project management systems.
• Build prompt architectures, agent workflows, automation layers, and quality control mechanisms that can operate reliably at production scale.
• Develop working proofs of concept and production‑ready solutions that demonstrate measurable business value.
• Rapidly iterate and deploy solutions within the constraints of active client engagements.
• Establish governance frameworks covering brand safety, content rights management, model selection, approval workflows, compliance, and auditability.
• Train and enable teams to successfully adopt new workflows and technologies.
• Define and track success metrics, including throughput, cycle time, cost‑per‑asset, quality consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure knowledge transfer and long‑term sustainability beyond the initial engagement.
• Contribute to project scoping and solution design across content operations, creative production, AI transformation, and marketing technology initiatives.
• Develop reusable accelerators, templates, tooling configurations, and best practices.
• Help evolve internal methodologies and delivery frameworks for future engagements.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in creative technology, content operations, production engineering, marketing technology, automation, or applied AI.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping production‑ready solutions with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience working across both creative and technical stakeholder groups.
• Proven ability to translate operational challenges into scalable workflow solutions.
• Hands‑on experience building and deploying creative, content, or marketing workflow solutions.
• Experience configuring and implementing creative AI tools and automation platforms in real‑world environments.
• Working knowledge of DAM systems, CMS platforms, content APIs, project management tools, and orchestration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, AI agents, and workflow automation.
• Ability to independently create and deploy proofs of concept that drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Deep understanding of creative production processes, content supply chains, and asset lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with enterprise creative ecosystems, including tools such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Workfront, Adobe Firefly, Figma, and related platforms.
• Ability to communicate effectively with creative directors, producers, brand operations teams, content strategists, and marketing technology stakeholders.
• Strong bias toward execution and delivery.
• Diagnostic and systems‑thinking approach to problem solving.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and taking ownership of outcomes.
• Able to work independently while collaborating effectively across functions.