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Role summary
Lead Firefly Foundrys AI architecture practice building and managing a team of senior architects and engineers. Drive executive engagement with studio streaming sports and gaming leaders while scaling Firefly adoption through people leadership cross-functional alignment and repeatable execution models.
Youll partner with enterprise studio streaming network sports and gaming executives (CIO CCO CMO CTO Head of Post) to reinvent content pipelines with Firefly taking initiatives from pilot to global rollout using Firefly Creative Cloud and more importantly groundbreaking new Foundry workflows and technologies.
What youll do
Build & lead a team: Hire develop and mentor a high-performing group of architects; drive career growth coaching and resource allocation.
Executive engagement: Represent Firefly Foundry with C-suite leaders; guide your team to deliver executive design reviews workshops and thought leadership.
Codify best practices: Establish and evolve reference patterns for creative workflow blueprints prompt/evaluation pipelines campaign scalability and governance guardrails.
Support complex problem-solving: Provide leadership and escalation frameworks as your team tackles brand/style constraints fidelity throughput multilingual quality and authenticity.
Integration strategy: Oversee enterprise integration across Creative Cloud apps (Photoshop Premiere Pro After Effects Substance 3D ) Firefly APIs/Services Workfront and DAM/MAM systems; empower your team to lead implementations.
Ecosystem leadership: Direct partner blueprint creation validate delivery against Firefly Foundry standards and scale through alliances.
Drive measurable value: Ensure your team translates creative and business priorities into ROI/TCO metrics that influence customer expansions.
What youll bring
Must-have
12 years architecting and shipping large-scale platforms or content/ML systems; 3 years leading enterprise GenAI/AI programs.
5 years in people leadership roles managing technical teams (direct reports hiring coaching career development).
Deep understanding of M&E production and marketing workflows (campaign bursts trailer/versioning localization approvals deliverables).
Expertise in GenAI solution patterns: prompt design & evaluation guardrails observability/measurement vectorized retrieval style constraints and cost governance.
Strong technical depth across cloud data/AI tooling and software architectures; ability to evaluate design trade-offs without being the primary implementer.
Executive presence with studio leadership; exceptional written communication (1-pagers decision records reference designs).
Proven track record leading cross-functional programs from pilot to production with Product Security/Privacy Legal and Customer Success partners.
Nice-to-have
Background in broadcast/OTT sports gaming or live events; familiarity with post-production pipelines and marketing tech stacks.
Prior Field CTO/Field Engineering leadership or consulting partner experience.
Expansions driven by reference patterns and executive satisfaction (C-suite CSAT).
Collaboration
Partner daily with Firefly Foundry Engagement Managers Solutions Architecture Forward Deployed Engineering and Scientist Product (Firefly/Express/Photoshop/Premiere/After Effects/) Customer Success Security/Privacy/Legal and Partner/Alliances teams.
Work setup
Travel: 25% to 40% for exec workshops studio/post visits and key industry events.
Hybrid/Remote: flexible.
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