AI Innovation + Adoption Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead AI Tool Adoption: Manage the agency’s growing AI stack—including text, image, and video generation platforms—while driving hands-on onboarding, training, and enablement across teams.
• Design and Deploy Workflows: Collaborate with creative, strategy, production, and new business teams to embed AI into real projects—boosting speed, scale, and storytelling potential.
• Partner with Leadership: Work alongside the Chief Creative & Innovation Officer to identify new technologies, run pilots, and deliver business cases that support enterprise-wide innovation.
• Maintain a Strategic Tech Stack: Build and maintain a centralized, ever-evolving knowledge base of tools, vendors, pilots, and learnings to future-proof the agency’s approach to emerging tech.
• Champion Human-Centered AI: Act as the agency’s go-to expert on responsible AI use—advocating for augmentation over automation and ensuring creative voices stay at the center.
• Mentor Innovation Talent: Manage and grow the Innovation Coordinator, ensuring alignment with day-to-day initiatives while providing coaching and development support.

Who We’re Looking For:

• A creative technologist who speaks the language of both artists and engineers—and can translate ideas into action.
• A hands-on builder who loves prototyping and iterating just as much as evangelizing and educating.
• A proactive researcher who tracks the bleeding edge of AI and emerging tech and sees around corners for the org.
• A natural collaborator who thrives in cross-functional settings and can align stakeholders with different priorities.
• A structured thinker who can evaluate tools, synthesize insights, and create frameworks that scale.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in creative technology, digital innovation, or AI enablement—ideally within an agency, studio, or forward-thinking brand.
• Strong working knowledge of AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, Sora, Firefly, ElevenLabs, and prompt engineering best practices.
• Experience operationalizing tech adoption—training teams, designing workflows, and measuring results.
• Exposure to creative production, marketing strategy, or product design is a major plus.
• Background in scripting, APIs, or low-code/no-code tools is a bonus—but not required.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

About Onward Search

Onward Search is a nationwide staffing agency and talent solutions provider specializing in creative, marketing, and technology professionals. We work with our nationwide clients to continuously pipeline and fill specialized roles. As such, not all jobs contain an application deadline.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category. Candidates must be at least 18 years old to be considered for employment.

EOE/M/F/D/V/SO

Inclusive Hiring Practices

We’re committed to making every part of our hiring process accessible and inclusive. If you need any accommodations or adjustments to support you during the application or interview process, please contact us at inclusivehiring@onwardsearch.com.

Employment Eligibility

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States. We are unable to support 1099 / Corp-to-Corp / Independent Contractor arrangements. All freelancers will be hired as W2 employees.

Benefits

We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan to all eligible full-time temporary employees. Onward Search is a drug-free workplace.

Virtual Interview Process

To help streamline the hiring process and ensure a more flexible and accessible experience for all candidates, we’ve partnered with Apriora, a virtual interviewing platform. For select job openings, you may receive an invitation to interview with Alex, our virtual interviewer, via email at alex@onwardsearch.com.

Alex will guide you through a brief set of questions to help us better understand your background and interests. The virtual interview can be completed on your own time, and your responses will be reviewed by our recruiting team as part of the screening process.

To learn more about the platform, visit Apriora’s website.

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