AI Solutions Director

About the Role

Our work is bundled by teams, not by organizational layers. But it's not all work. Everyone at Monks knows how to have a good time, and everyone contributes to the positive energy of our culture. If you’re intrigued, read on as we may have the dream job for you. 

As the AI Solutions Director you are accountable for direction, motivation, and financial impact of a newly formed team that focussed on content and innovation (AI development).

You oversee AI Solution Managers in pitching and executing ideas within or across platforms by providing leadership and expert knowledge of the talent, techniques, and technology necessary to execute the content work. 

You are responsible for attracting, developing and deploying internal production talent to ensure the best content and production value possible for the idea and the client. You are accountable for the overall quality of work, ensuring goals are met and projects delivered on time and on budget and delivering within the margin targets. 

The AI Solutions Director has experience across Social, Digital and Photo Content and has worked in film, photo and post production capacities. You are a creative problem solver and your production expertise allows you to guide complex development efforts across AI / Innovation funnels. 

You possess strong leadership skills to help build out the Transformation COE team activities, with a focus on comms management, R&D, education, sales and execution. 

You are a great communicator, motivator, and project manager with an innate ability to 'get things done'. Leading from the front and setting a strategic environment that allows for producers to excel. 

As a result, you wear many hats. You take a very proactive role in business development efforts, helping to prepare and present both written and oral presentations. You advise project teams and clients on best practices, process, scope, schedules, and pricing, while building strong, resilient relationships along the way. 

You develop, build and/or evolve operational processes and workflow documentation, for all successful R&D to be implemented into the Monksflow pipeline after graduation has been determined. You manage micro AI Production squads to deliver product innovation on quarterly timelines. Quarterly you track and review and set new goals based on how the AI landscape develops in markets. 

You will work closely with the Operations & Casting teams in conjunction with the Scaled Client Leads to manage current workloads as well as best forecast incoming projects to secure adequate resources.

Responsibilities:

• Sales: Drive sales and creative development processes with an AI enabled/forward production led mentality. Ensuring that we show up competitive and setting us apart by bringing the AI production and operations capabilities as part of the pitch process, ensuring all pitches are connected to the global vision and strategy. Be the face and a consistent voice in representing the studio to other caps and disciplines to ensure everyone is aware of the latest and greatest. 
• Vision: Innovation is at the heart of everything that we do, our process and client solutions will offer digital first solutions in the creative/origination process. All pitches are accompanied with detailed production approaches that align to the overall vision and drive production innovation. 
• Innovation: Ensures that all AI processes are deployed and delivered on, in collaboration with other Monksflow, Innovation, SME and Tech teams that allows you to move at the pace of the market.