Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, Creative AI

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Elite full-stack engineer. Elite creative-tool expert. Elite public speaker who commands Fortune 100 boardrooms. Now do it as a player-coach — and make your team elite at all three too. Read this before you apply. This role requires all four of the following — at the same time, in the same person. 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. Not “I used to code.” • 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, run a live demo unscripted, and walk out with the room won. • You’ve hired, grown, and performance-managed engineers — you can point to someone who’s more senior today because of you, and a hard call (a PIP, a coach-out) you’ve actually made, not just managed. This bar has to be met on day one, not grown into. If you’re three-quarters there, that’s genuinely great — just come back when the fourth is…