Director of AI Transformation

Join Mammoth Brands as the Director of AI Transformation, a hands-on operational technical leadership role. You will own the technical strategy and execution of the Central AI Team, lead a team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers, and make critical build-versus-buy decisions. This is a career-defining opportunity to shape how a major CPG company operates in the AI era.

• Own the technical AI strategy for Mammoth Brands, including agent architecture, tooling stack, data access patterns, and infrastructure.
• Lead the Forward Deployed AI Engineering team, setting hiring standards, technical standards, and the operating model for embedding engineers with business teams.
• Drive build-versus-buy decisions across the AI portfolio, partnering with the Head of GenAI Strategy and functional VPs to evaluate vendors and configure existing tools.
• You build great teams. You have a track record of hiring excellent engineers and creating environments where they do their best work
• You move fast and lead from the front. You are still hands-on enough to spike a prototype, debug an agent, or write the eval when it matters
• You have strong product and business judgment. You can sit across from a CMO, a Head of Growth, or a Head of Supply Chain and translate their problem into a technical plan — and the reverse
• You are pragmatic to the core. You care more about workflow impact and adoption than novelty, and you are allergic to AI theater
• You have deep, current technical fluency in modern AI — LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval, evals, prompt engineering, MCP, and the tradeoffs between hosted models, open weights, and fine-tuning
• You have a clear point of view on build versus buy, and you have made those calls with real money on the line
• You have led technical organizations through ambiguous, fast-moving environments and built the operating muscles that let small teams deliver disproportionate impact
• You communicate with executive presence. You can present to a CEO, defend a roadmap to a CFO, and rally an engineering team in the same week
• You have shipped real AI systems into production at scale — not just prototypes — and you know what breaks, what's expensive, and what's fragile
• You have success collaborating across diverse teams & stakeholders and driving cross-functional consensus
• You are excited by the opportunity to help define how Mammoth Brands operates in the AI era — and to build a function and a playbook that could become a model for the industry
• You have 12+ years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, platform engineering, or technical leadership roles, including meaningful time leading engineering teams