A+E Global Media · 19 hours ago
Senior Director Engineering, Applied AI
New York
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$221K/yr - $258K/yr
12+ years expA+E Global Media is seeking a strategic and hands-on Senior Director of Engineering, Applied AI to lead the design, development, and delivery of AI-driven capabilities across their technology platforms. This role involves coordinating across multiple teams to drive innovation and ensure delivery excellence while building the Applied AI engineering function from the ground up.
Digital MediaMedia and EntertainmentTV Production
Responsibilities
Drive the technical roadmap for applied AI across key product and business areas, including content intelligence, personalization, automation, and creative tooling
Partner with the VP of Engineering and peers to define how AI integrates into A+E Global Media’s broader technology and product vision
Evaluate and implement cutting-edge AI techniques, including GenAI, LLMs, vision models, and recommendation systems
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and vendors to ensure the team remains at the forefront of innovation and leverages the best available tools for impact and scale
Drive development of custom AI solutions using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and model fine-tuning to meet business-specific needs across media, creative workflows, and internal business operations, including defining evals and benchmarks to ensure performance, grounding, and reliability
Design and lead systems that extract value from large, unstructured content sets — including PDFs, SharePoint documents, and multimedia assets (video, audio, image) — leveraging a combination of NLP, computer vision, multimodal models, LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and enterprise-scale retrieval techniques
Drive the thoughtful adoption of AI-powered tools within engineering to enhance developer productivity, model experimentation, and operational efficiency
Build the Applied AI engineering function from scratch — defining the team’s structure, hiring its first members, and establishing best practices and a strong technical culture from day one
Lead and mentor a growing team of engineers focused on applied AI systems, including full-stack AI, MLOps, and platform integrations
Cultivate a culture of experimentation, engineering rigor, and inclusive collaboration
Attract and retain top talent while supporting ongoing professional development
Oversee the full lifecycle of applied AI systems, including model integration and orchestration — from prototyping and data exploration to deployment, monitoring, and retraining
Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to ensure robust data pipelines and experimentation workflows
Partner with Product teams to co-develop AI-enabled features and prioritize high-impact initiatives
Work closely with other internal A+E Engineering teams to embed applied AI into production systems
Serve as a key technical counterpart to the Creative Generative AI teams, enabling media and video generation capabilities
Ensure engineering excellence across performance, scalability, monitoring, and AI system reliability and governance
Build and maintain scalable, cloud-based AI infrastructure
Champion responsible AI development aligned with privacy, IP, and ethical standards
Qualification
Required
12+ years of software engineering experience including team leadership experience
Significant recent focus on application AI technologies including experience applying LLM models or systems to real-world products and workflows
Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams in a production AI environment
Experience working with Embeddings, RAG, RLFH, Fine Tuning etc at enterprise scale
Experience with Python and/or Typescript/Javascript
Experience designing or applying evals LLM models (LLMs), including prompt testing, grounding, hallucination detection, and performance benchmarking
Excellent communication skills and experience working on cross-functional initiatives
Preferred
Experience working with large-scale data in Adtech or Advertising-related platforms is a plus
Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar systems is a plus
Experience with AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) and deploying models to cloud environments is a plus
Experience with data pipelines and integration patterns is a plus including MLOps
Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures at scale and/or fine-tuning large language models
Experience with diffusion/image/video models is a nice to have
Exposure to creative pipelines or AI-enhanced content workflows is a plus
Background in statistical modeling or mathematics is a plus
Familiarity with data privacy, copyright, and ethical issues in applied AI applications is helpful but not needed
Experience in the media, entertainment, or content-tech industry is a plus
Benefits
Healthcare coverage
401k matching
A range of other benefits
Company
A+E Global Media
A+E Global Media™, a joint venture of Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst, is an innovative, multiplatform content powerhouse that reaches audiences everywhere and is comprised of some of the most popular and culturally relevant brands in media, including A&E®, Lifetime®, The HISTORY Channel™, LMN®, FYI®, Home.Made.Nation™ and VICE TV®.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Susan Tanamli
CTO, EVP Global Technology and Media Operations
David Granville-Smith
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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