AI Integration Strategist

Overview

The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic and creative solutions. We are the insights to action agency. At our core, we are problem seekers and thought partners. Our unique model challenges global, iconic brands to navigate moments of transformation and engage their ever-evolving future consumer.

The Program is looking for an AI Integration Strategist who can help us unlock the potential of AI and emerging technologies across our agency. This is a new role that will work across disciplines—strategy, creative, design, tech, and content production—to identify opportunities where AI and workflow automation can challenge our thinking, sharpen our processes, and elevate our work.

You’ll bring curiosity, clarity, and coaching to help our teams integrate AI in practical, repeatable ways, institutionalizing your work across the agency. Approach this in an additive, not reductive mindset. Your work will focus on leveraging AI tools and new technology to uncover opportunities to streamline our workflows, helping our agency move smarter and faster, making better work with intention.

Key Responsibilities

AI Integration

  • An eagerness to deeply understand our service offering, the work we do, and the brand partners we work with, and how the AI solutions you assemble can impact that work

  • Develop and implement comprehensive AI solutions that align with the company’s vision and goals, contextualized for use across active workstreams for our client-partners

  • Be the champion leading integration; drive from conception through execution, where success is measured in institutionalization; develop training materials and offer ongoing guidance to internal teams

  • Evaluate and measure the effectiveness of our AI solutions and adjust as needed

  • Provide guidance and leadership on AI ethics, compliance, and security

  • Stay apprised of AI trends; maintain a robust understanding of advancements in the field

  • Ongoing identification of high-impact areas for AI integration across the agency

  • Facilitate internal workshops with key stakeholders

  • A collaborative, product-minded approach to building — you focus on real-business impact and thrive working both independently and cross-functionally.


Workflow Automation

  • Observe the various workflows across the agency, both common and unique to client-partners, and develop a POV on areas where automation can improve the way we work and our outputs

  • Focus on improvements, not just reductions; develop workflow automations that allow our team members to focus on producing their best work more efficiently

  • Build connectors across tools and services to bring workflow automations to life

Experience

  • Proven experience in integrating AI solutions and workflow automations

  • Experience in strategy development, particularly in AI or digital transformation

  • Strategic thinker with a proven track record of executing successful technology integration projects

  • Familiarity with modern LLM workflows, including prompt engineering, embedding generation, function calling, MCP workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.

  • Background in creative tooling, marketing automation, or content management systems.

  • A passion for how technology can aid in the development of creative solutions

Details

  • This is an in-office Portland, Oregon position with three days per week in office. A hybrid approach will make up the other two days per week, with additional days in office per week as needed or required by management. *We’re open to fully remote options for the right candidates.

  • The salary band for this role is $70,000-$90,000.

  • We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.

Apply

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*Upon submitting the application form successfully you will be presented with a confirmation screen. This confirms that your application has made it into our system and it will be reviewed by the hiring team. The Program is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe that the best work is produced by a diverse team, each with our own unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where all are welcomed regardless of age, race, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, preferences, military or veteran status, ability, or political affiliation.