Director of Applied AI Product

Director of Applied AI Product: The Director of AI Product role at Acceleration Partners is a remote, work-from-home position, as are all roles at AP, a structure central to our culture and our vision for a better balance of work and life. Some travel may be required for internal meetings, conferences, and events. The Role: Something just changed about what a single person can build, and we intend to be the agency that puts it to work first. Acceleration Partners is the recognized leader in partnership marketing, built on more than a decade of proprietary data and technology our industry cannot match, and we are now putting applied AI at the center of how we turn that advantage into measurable outcomes for our clients. We are looking for a Director of AI Product to own how we build. We have a clear thesis about where this is going and what our clients need, and a working, data-connected platform that already proves part of it. What we want now is a peer who is deeper in this technology than we are, someone who can pressure-test that thesis, tell us where it is wrong, and drive how we bring it to life. This is not a role that manages AI features from a distance. You will be in the tools every day, prototyping, building agentic workflows, and shipping against real client data in weeks rather than quarters, and you will help decide what we build ourselves and what we stop outsourcing. You will own the technical approach and the build from day one, and the product roadmap and vision increasingly as the platform matures. We are among the first to apply AI at this depth in partnership marketing, and this role sits at the center of that work. This is a highly cross-functional role. You will work closely with engineering, data, client services, agency operations, and strategy teams to translate the needs of our clients and our teams into product that delivers measurable value, while keeping our people focused on the judgment and strategy that technology cannot replace. This role reports to and partners directly with the Chief Strategy Officer. Top 5 Responsibilities: Product Direction and Judgment Pressure-test and help shape the product thesis, bringing enough depth in AI and modern build practices to tell us what is real, what is not yet, and what we are missing. Execute the established direction, turning it into shipped product that delivers measurable value, and take on increasing ownership of roadmap and vision as the platform matures. Hands-On Product Creation Move concepts into working software quickly, prototyping and shipping in weeks rather than quarters, building the tools and agentic workflows that do real work against real client data rather than handing specifications to others and waiting.