Director - AI Innovation

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI practice.
• Set the vision and roadmap for AI at Anchour.
• Decide what we build next, how we prioritize it, and the standards everyone works to.
• Keep a sharp read on the space and bring leadership real recommendations, not headlines.
• Build and deploy across the business.
• Find the friction in business development, client services, creative operations, and the back office, then build the workflows and automations that remove it.
• Turn AI into a client advantage.
• Build AI-driven capabilities into prospecting, proposals, and client work, and develop new offerings clients will pay for.
• Drive adoption across the team.
• Get 40+ people confidently using these tools every day.
• Own responsible use.
• Set how we handle client data, protect confidential work, and decide what goes into which model.
• Measure what's working.
• Track where AI is improving quality, speed, and output. Keep what earns its place and cut what doesn't.
• Shape what we build. Partner with our Technical Lead and dev team on the product roadmap.
• Bring the agency's real needs into the build so what ships gets used.

Requirements

• Hands‑on AI experience: You've deployed AI tools and automations in a working business and driven measurable change across teams.
• A builder's instinct: You're technical enough to prototype, build automations, and prompt with skill, and you can hold your own with a dev team.
• Sharp, current point of view: You read the AI space well and move fast from insight to implementation.
• Real technical foundations: You prototype fast, but you build on solid ground.
• Senior presence: You're as comfortable with a CEO as you are configuring a new workflow.
• Adoption and enablement: You know the tool is the easy part. You teach, document, and get people using what you build.
• Judgment on risk and data: You understand the security, confidentiality, and IP questions that come with AI, and you make smart calls about client data.
• Agency or marketing fluency: Experience in an agency, marketing, or creative environment is a strong plus.
• Self‑directed: You see the work and move it. You don't wait to be told what to prioritize.
• New England‑based: This is a hybrid role with regular in-office days. Maine‑based applicants are preferred.