Technical Director, AI & Immersive

Paradowski Creative is an independent, full-service creative agency based in St. Louis. We bring strategy, creativity, technology and craft together to create experiences that spark curiosity, invite participation and help brands build meaningful connections with people.

Our teams work collaboratively across disciplines to solve complex business challenges and produce work that is thoughtful, effective and made with care. We value creative play, clear thinking, accountability, strong relationships and people who care about both the quality of the work and how it gets made.

Our next chapter brings those capabilities together in more personalized and immersive ways. We are building the technical leadership needed to make that work distinctive, commercially sound and repeatable.

The Role

Lead the technical vision behind intelligent, personalized and participatory brand experiences, from the first ambitious idea through a dependable launch. Build the future without breaking production.

Paradowski Creative is looking for a Technical Director, AI & Immersive Experiences to lead the technical thinking behind a growing portfolio of interactive, intelligent and experiential work.

This is a senior player-coach role for someone who can sit with a creative team at the beginning of an idea, help shape what is possible, and stay close enough to the work to ensure it launches securely, reliably and at the quality our clients expect.

You will connect creative ambition with practical architecture across artificial intelligence, real-time and 3D experiences, branded gaming, immersive web, interactive installations and emerging platforms. You will also help us decide when to build, when to partner and when the smartest answer is simpler than the newest technology.

This is not a lab role. We value exploration, but the job is to turn exploration into client-ready solutions: scoped clearly, designed responsibly and delivered with confidence.

With clients: Translate complex technologies into clear choices, honest tradeoffs and compelling recommendations for senior client teams.

With the agency: Partner across creative, strategy, account, production and growth to shape ideas early and carry them through delivery.

Your first instinct is “How could we make this work?”

You bring the technical credibility to make the call and the creative curiosity to find a path forward. You bring productive constraint, not simply constraint.

Four things this role has to do exceptionally well.

Shape the Technical Approach

Bring a point of view early, while the idea is still forming.

Partner with creative and strategy from the first conversation, bringing possibility and productive constraint to the room.

Define the approach for AI-powered, immersive and interactive work: architecture, platforms, integrations and data.

Decide when to build, when to partner and when the smartest answer is simpler than the newest technology.

Make Ambitious Ideas Buildable

Give big ideas a real path to launch.

Turn ambiguous concepts into prototypes, clear decision points and a plan that can ship.

Prototype quickly enough to learn, then name what must change before production.

When an idea will not work as pitched, come back with options that protect what makes it great.

Own the Technical Truth

Be the trusted voice on what is real, so producers and clients can plan with confidence.

Give honest, early reads on feasibility, effort, risk, security and privacy, with options, not surprises.

Own technical scoping, estimates and partner recommendations, working closely with producers to establish realistic budgets, timelines and delivery plans.

Take accountability for technical budgets, ensuring solutions are appropriately scoped, estimated and delivered within agreed parameters. Producers manage schedules and day-to-day execution.

Set the technical quality bar across internal teams and external partners, including reviews, launch readiness and final technical sign-off.

Stay Curious and Keep Evolving

Keep expanding what Paradowski can credibly imagine and deliver.

Explore emerging tools and platforms and test the ones worth testing.

Raise technical fluency across the agency, including where AI adds value and where it does not.

Grow a trusted network of specialists and bring new capabilities into pitches and new-business conversations.

Required Qualifications

~8+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant…