Creative director Jobs in Calgary, AB

Description

As the Director of AI Enablement, you will work with every department across the company to embed AI tools into how every team works, maximizing productivity, ROI, and output. You will play an integral role, from mapping each team's workflows and data to selecting and deploying the right tools, building the prompts, agents, and integrations that make them effective, and training the people who use them. The role requires a deep, hands-on understanding of current AI tools and prompt engineering, a broad understanding of corporate processes and data structures, and the credibility to change how people work without slowing them down. You are a practitioner, not a strategist-at-a-distance: you use these tools daily, you can show your work, and you measure success in hours saved and output shipped, not in tools deployed.

Location and Work Model

This role is based on-site at our Calgary headquarters and manufacturing facility. Relocation support may be available for exceptional candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute ZeroKey's company-wide AI enablement strategy and roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, feasibility, scalability, and measurable ROI for each team.
• Embed with each function to map workflows, pain points, and data flows, and identify where AI meaningfully augments or automates the work.
• Evaluate, select, and manage AI tools, balancing functionality, security, cost, and demonstrated value. Continuously optimize the tech stack and retire underperforming solutions.
• Lead the end-to-end implementation of AI solutions, from opportunity assessment and proof of concept through deployment, adoption, optimization, and scaling across the organization.
• Build the assets that make tools effective, including agentic workflows, automations, prompt libraries, and integrations that connect AI capabilities to our existing systems and data.
• Partner with Engineering and IT on security review, system integration, and infrastructure for internal AI workloads.
• Establish AI usage governance: policies and guardrails that protect our IP, customer data, and sensitive information without strangling adoption.
• Continuously train and upskill every team through hands-on training, coaching, and ongoing support, building AI proficiency across departments and ensuring solutions become embedded in everyday workflows.
• Define success metrics and measure the impact of AI initiatives on productivity, efficiency, quality, cost savings, and business outcomes. Report results and recommendations to leadership regularly.
• Document playbooks, patterns, and lessons so wins from one team transfer to the next.
• Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, including emerging models, agentic technologies, automation frameworks, and industry best practices.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of experience spanning technology and operations or process-improvement roles, including hands-on responsibility for deploying AI tools across an organization.

Requirements:

• Deep, current, practitioner-level knowledge of the AI tool landscape: frontier LLMs, agentic workflows, coding assistants, and prompt engineering.
• Proven experience building and deploying AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable business value. Ability to demonstrate real-world implementations, not just conceptual knowledge or strategic recommendations.
• Broad understanding of corporate processes and data structures across functions (CRM, ERP, financial systems, engineering tooling).
• Strong technical proficiency in scripting and programming (e.g., Python), APIs, system integrations, and workflow automation tools, with the ability to independently deploy functional solutions.
• Proven change management skills with demonstrated examples of adoption you drove, resistance you converted, and training that stuck.
• Solid understanding of AI architecture, data management, and security principles, including data access controls, privacy, intellectual property protection, and model reliability.
• An ROI-driven mindset with demonstrated experience establishing performance baselines, quantifying productivity improvements, evaluating cost-benefit tradeoffs, and making evidence-based decisions about which initiatives to scale or discontinue.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Considered an asset:

• Experience deploying AI in security- and confidentiality-sensitive environments is a strong asset.
• Exposure to manufacturing or industrial technology companies is an asset.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Extended health, dental, and vision care, plus life and disability insurance
• Paid time off, on-site parking at our Calgary HQ, and casual dress
• Company events and a team that is genuinely fun to work with

ZeroKey is building the spatial data layer for Physical AI.

AI transformed the digital economy by capturing every keystroke as data. The physical economy has no equivalent. On a factory floor, every human action, material movement, tool motion, and assembly step is invisible to software, and therefore to AI. We close that gap.

Our patented Quantum RTLS® (35+ patents) is the industry’s most accurate large-scale 3D real-time location system. Using ultrasound instead of cameras, it tracks people, tools, robots, and materials across entire factories with an accuracy of 1.5 millimetres, which is over 100 times more precise than anything else on the market.

That precision is the foundation of something bigger. The spatial data from Quantum RTLS feeds OmniVisor AI™, our agentic platform that puts a dedicated AI process engineer in every work cell. Together, our two technologies process 3.3 billion positions every month and prevent more than 1.1 million production errors every year.

Production accuracy is ultimately a safety story. Automotive and aerospace OEMs trust ZeroKey to verify safety-critical assemblies, torque by torque and step by step, down to the millimetre. The buses and planes they build carry every passenger safely to their destination. Those passengers will never know our name. That is the point.

Venture-backed, headquartered in Calgary, and winner of the 16th Innovation World Cup (2025), ZeroKey is deployed by 250+ customers across 41 countries, including roughly 1 in 10 Fortune Global 500 companies.

See it in action:

• Quantum RTLS in 30 seconds
• Introducing OmniVisor AI
• Fly through our Calgary HQ