Director of AI Solutions

SketchDeck HQ

Houston (TX)

Remote

USD 140,000 - 170,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Fully remote

Paid time off

Annual company retreat

Equipment stipend

Office setup stipend

Job summary

SketchDeck is seeking a Director of AI Solutions to drive AI transformation across our creative operations and client work. You will lead AI initiatives, design scalable AI workflows, and collaborate with Creative and Production Directors to deliver high-impact solutions for enterprise brands from anywhere.

You will balance client engagements with internal AI program development, staying ahead of AI trends while ensuring practical, on-brand outcomes.

Qualifications

6+ years working with creative teams or in agency environments.
A portfolio or demos of AI projects.
Hands-on experience with AI tools across image, video, text and prototyping, plus light development.
Strong design eye; working knowledge of Figma, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite.
Experience redesigning work processes around AI.
Comfortable consulting with clients and training teams.
Aware of legal and client-permission questions around AI in creative work.
Self-directed and curious; able to handle shifting priorities.
Available during U.S. business hours.

Responsibilities

CLIENT DEVELOPMENT: Propose AI-ready brand systems and governance; create small client-facing AI tools; participate in roadmap-level client discussions.
TOOLS TO ENHANCE EXISTING WORK: Map workflows, build AI-assisted design explorations, set up prompt/asset libraries, track time savings.
EXPERIMENTATION AND ONE-TIME PROJECTS: Translate ideas into fast AI implementations; develop new formats (AI video, interactive pieces); contribute to live projects.
RESEARCH AND SHARING WITH THE SKETCHDECK TEAM: Continuously explore new AI tools and share findings via demos and internal sessions.

Skills

Creative teams/agency experience

AI portfolio

AI tools (image/video/text/prototyping

Design eye (Figma/Canva/Adobe CS)

AI-driven process redesign

Client consulting & training

AI legal considerations awareness

Self-directed & adaptable

US business hours availability

Tools

Figma

Canva

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

ABOUT SKETCHDECK

Elevate your career working with leading global brands alongside inspiring colleagues in a flexible, remote-first environment. At SketchDeck, we aim to bring great people together to deliver exceptional impact. Through a combination of purpose-driven partnerships, technology, and global talent, we help brands realize their limitless potential with high-quality creative and digital solutions delivered on demand. We work with clients ranging from startups to well-known enterprise brands such as Dropbox, Rémy Cointreau, and Asana.

At SketchDeck, our values are more than just guiding principles—they're the foundation of how we work and grow together globally. We commit to:

Win as a Team.
Find Solutions.
Take Ownership.
Do the Right Thing.
Be Human.

Guided by our vision to be the best creative partner, we empower our team to collaborate and innovate from anywhere with a flexible, remote-first culture. Our camera-on, Slack-heavy environment cultivates genuine relationships and collaboration, where we actively seek culture add, not just culturefit.

DIRECTOR OF AI SOLUTIONS ROLE AT SKETCHDECK

About the role:

This is a new role at SketchDeck, helping bring AI impact to our creative work.

Key parts of the role:

Consult with clients to understand current approaches and identify opportunities for AI in Creative Work (Key: strong client communication skills)
Design and build AI solutions for our creative operations and clients and support team adoption
Stay on top of the latest AI developments, understand how they can impact our work, and effectively share with the team

Note: In your first six months, about half your time will go to leading AI transformation for one of our enterprise clients, including quarterly trips to Houston, TX (two nights per trip).
You'll report to the VP, Creative Impact.

How you'll work with our creative and production leads:
Our Creative Directors and Design Directors own the creative direction and design. You own the AI solution: what's possible, what to build and how it gets used. They bring you the problem, you build the solution, and together you present it to the client. You'll bring a strong design eye so the work meets our creative standard.

You'll also partner with our Production Directors on AI systems that make high-volume client production faster and more consistent.

You'll often support several leads at once, so clear communication matters as much as technical skill.

Working with clients:
You'll be in front of clients alongside the creative lead. That means consulting with clients on what AI can and can't do for their brand, training their teams on new tools and workflows, shaping and presenting AI ideas in new business pitches, and joining live projects where the work needs someone who can build it.

As the Director of AI Solutions, you'll have four areas of responsibility:
The percentages are our starting balance. We'll review them after six months.

CLIENT DEVELOPMENT: (25%)

Consult on how a client's brand system needs to change for AI, and prototype AI-ready brand systems we can train tools on
Define client AI governance: usage guidelines, approval flows and brand safeguards
Build small client-facing tools and apps (e.g. an on-brand social asset builder)
Pressure-test ideas early with the Design Director leading new offerings, then turn what works into repeatable, documented offerings we can sell
Join new business and pursuit calls as the AI voice, showing clients where AI fits at a roadmap level

TOOLS TO ENHANCE EXISTING WORK: (35%)

Map how client and internal teams work today, and flag which workstreams are ready for AI now, later or not at all
Build and test AI workflows for design exploration, variations and templated systems on live accounts
Work with Design Directors, Production Directors and Project Managers to find where workflows will stick, and run regular checkins with leads on embedded programs
Set up shared prompt and asset libraries, and document workflows so designers can use them on their own
Track the time each workflow saves, so we know what's worth keeping

EXPERIMENTATION AND ONE-TIME PROJECTS: (25%)

Take ideas from Design and Production Directors, tell them early what's achievable, and build them fast while they're still relevant to the client
Open up new formats, including interactive experiences, AI video and playable pieces
Build and present the AI concepts in new business pitches
Jump onto live projects that need hands-on technical execution

RESEARCH AND SHARING WITH THE SKETCHDECK TEAM: (15%)

Explore new AI tools continuously and bring what’s worth our attention to the team, without waiting to be asked
Share findings through short demos, recordings, posts and internal sessions that build the team’s AI fluency
Keep a living record of what works, what doesn’t and what we’ve tried

6+ years working with creative teams or in agency environments
A portfolio or demos of what you've built with AI, and how you built it
Hands-on experience with AI tools across image, video, text and prototyping, plus light development (prompting, low-code, no-code, building with AI assistance)
A strong design eye, with working knowledge of Figma, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
Experience redesigning work processes around AI, and a clear view on where AI fits, including when it doesn’t
Comfortable consulting with clients and training teams through new ways of working
Aware of the legal and client-permission questions around AI in creative work
Self-directed and curious, comfortable with shifting priorities and supporting several leads at once
Available during U.S. business hours

*Individual compensation packages are based on experience, demonstrated performance, market factors, and other job-related considerations.