Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative AI

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Elite full-stack engineer. Elite creative-tool expert. Elite public speaker who commands Fortune 100 boardrooms. Read this before you apply. This role requires all of the following — at the same time, in the same person, at the hardest scale in the organization. Not three out of four. • You ship production code every week — real, full-stack systems that run in front of real customers. Not scripts. Not prototypes that die after the demo. • You have deep, professional-grade mastery of at least one of: Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D or Substance 3D — or an equivalent tool in your craft. Not familiarity. Mastery. • You can walk into a room of CMOs and CTOs from a Fortune 100 brand — the account with the impossible timeline, the fractured stack, the deal that has to prove out the whole motion — run a live demo unscripted, and walk out with the room won. • You’ve set a technical or creative direction that changed how an org works — a real “before-me / after-me,” not a one-off win. This bar has to be met on day one, not grown into. If you’re most of the way there, that’s genuinely great — just come back once the track record is real, not…