# Director, AI at iSpot.tv

- Company: iSpot.tv
- What the company does: Backed by Insight and Madrona.
- Company website: http://www.ispot.tv/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Bellevue, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $205K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ispottv/jobs/4730171005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ispot-tv-director-ai/

## About the role

As Director of AI, you will lead the team that builds and ships iSpot's AI-powered capabilities across our Creative, Audience, and Outcomes (CAO) product lines. You will take AI concepts from prototype to production — intelligent creative analysis, audience insights, agentic workflows, and next-generation outcome measurement — and make them reliable, evaluated, and economical at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience shipping AI or machine learning capabilities into production products used by customers
- Working knowledge of modern AI technologies: large language models, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, embeddings, evaluation methods, and fine-tuning trade-offs
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, testing, and production operations
- Genuinely hands-on: comfortable in the codebase, in notebooks, and in production traces

Tags: Engineering