Director of AI

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Fortis Games

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Fortis Games is a gaming company dedicated to creating meaningful and engaging video games. With an international, fully remote team, Fortis focuses on innovative game design as a competitive advantage. The company fosters collaboration over competition, seeking to build connections and inspire communities through their creative works. Fortis Games is committed to redefining industry standards by changing the conventional approach to teamwork, project development, and recruitment within the gaming industry.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• As the Director of AI at Fortis, you will own and drive the company-wide strategy for how Artificial Intelligence is integrated, adopted, and scaled across every part of our business - from game development and creative production to publishing, LiveOps, and internal operations. • You are the company’s AI vision holder - responsible for defining where we invest, why, and how it creates measurable business impact. • You will oversee our AI R&D efforts, including management of our AI Engineering team, prioritizing, guiding and scoping AI explorations and ensuring the right problems are being solved for the right reasons. • You will operate at the intersection of engineering, R&D, game studios, creative operations, and business leadership - driving organizational adoption, influencing workflows, and integrating AI into the fabric of how Fortis builds games. • This role is deeply cross-functional, highly entrepreneurial, and critical to Fortis’ long-term success. • Define Fortis’ AI strategy and roadmap, setting clear priorities that align technical feasibility with business ROI. • Lead and manage AI R&D, guiding a technical team toward high-impact, commercially meaningful outcomes. • Translate ambiguous cross-functional problems into clear requirements, determining what gets built, why, and in what order. • Drive org-wide adoption of AI workflows, ensuring new tools and systems are actually used, not just delivered. • Run pilot initiatives across art, engineering, production, and publishing to validate real-world value and scale successful solutions. • Establish success metrics and measurement frameworks that quantify efficiency gains, creative acceleration, and bottom-line impact. • Champion AI education and alignment, helping teams understand capabilities, limitations, and responsible implementation. • Create the operating model for AI at Fortis, defining processes, principles, and repeatable mechanisms for continuous innovation.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong technical fluency in AI/ML concepts - able to debate architecture, evaluate tradeoffs, and challenge assumptions without needing to code. • Proven experience leading 0→1, cross-functional initiatives with measurable, org-wide outcomes. • Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and behavior change, not just build tools or ship features. • Deep understanding of creative or production workflows, ideally including game development pipelines (art, engineering, content). • Exceptional strategic decision-making, balancing long-term vision with tactical prioritization in ambiguous environments. • Credibility with both technical and creative teams, with strong communication skills and stakeholder alignment instincts. • Entrepreneurial bias for action, comfortable operating in a fast-moving, unstructured environment without relying on process or hierarchy. • Low-ego, high-ownership mindset, focused on outcomes, clarity, and collaboration rather than politicking or title-driven leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community • We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth. • Build and grow with a seasoned team of accomplished talent who have left an impactful mark in their disciplines, both in and out of gaming.