Director, Creative Automation

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr
Bentonville, AR

R-2584635

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$110,000 - $220,000/yr

Regular/ Permanent

The Director, Creative Automation leads the development and execution of strategies to enhance creative production through advanced automation technologies, including Generative AI. This role drives efficiency, scalability, and consistency across marketing workflows by implementing innovative tools and managing technology roadmaps. Collaborating closely with internal teams and agency partners, the position ensures alignment with business objectives while overseeing resource allocation and team development.

The Director continuously evaluates automation performance, fosters a culture of innovation, and provides strategic insights to senior leadership to optimize creative processes and deliver measurable business impact.

The team leads the development and execution of marketing automation and AI strategies to enhance efficiency and scalability across creative workflows. Collaborating closely with cross-functional partners, they drive innovation by integrating advanced technologies and optimizing processes. The group focuses on delivering measurable business impact through technology roadmaps, resource management, and continuous improvement. They foster a culture of professional growth, technical expertise, and operational excellence, ensuring alignment with business goals while supporting adoption of new tools.

This team plays a critical role in advancing automation capabilities within a large, dynamic marketing ecosystem.

• Develop and execute strategies to automate creative production workflows, enhancing efficiency, scalability, and consistency.
• Lead the creation and implementation of a technology roadmap focused on automation and innovative tools, including Generative AI.
• Collaborate with agency partners and internal teams to align automation initiatives with creative and business objectives.
• Oversee adoption, integration, and ongoing support of automation platforms, ensuring optimal utilization.
• Monitor and analyze automated workflows and outputs to drive continuous improvement and maintain quality standards.
• Manage resource allocation, mentor team members, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Establish performance metrics and report progress to senior leadership.

• Proven experience in developing and executing creative automation strategies to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Strong expertise in workflow automation and integrating generative artificial intelligence within marketing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology roadmap development and implement innovative automation tools.
• Skilled in resource allocation, project management, and driving cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and agency partners.
• Experience mentoring and developing technical teams focused on automation support and continuous improvement.
• Proficient in analyzing data to measure automation performance and optimize creative production outcomes.
• Ability to align automation initiatives with business objectives and maintain high standards of quality and consistency.

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

-Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage

-Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance

-Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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