AI Solution Developer

ABOUT US
tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world's leading brands. With more than 1,400 emwployees across 28 countries., we offer an impressive range of solutions - from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.
Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald's, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.
Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.
WHAT MATTERS THE MOST
Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.
tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.
WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE
The AI Solutions Developer will sit within our innovation team reporting to the Senior Director of Applied Innovation & Research
About the Innovation Team:
Our mission is simple: Move fast, break the status quo, drive technological evolution in every corner of the company, and demonstrate to our customers that tms is ahead of the pack. We believe that true progress requires the courage to experiment, the agility to pivot, and a healthy obsession with curiosity.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION
Innovation Strategy Development :
You'll collaborate with the CTO/CINO, and the Senior Director, taking a leadership role in innovation and AI strategy to drive our business.
AI and Emerging Technology Prototyping & Product Development

• You will play a key role in ideation and construction AI-based applied commercial solutions that address stakeholder problems and align with the business strategy.
• You will contribute your AI skills to PoC initiatives ad production systems to explore applicability of emerging technologies that address internal challenges, opportunities, or external market gaps

Emerging Technology Competency Expansion

• This role requires continuous adoption of new skills, and thus self-starter learning style applied to advanced AI and traditional technologies essential.
• Develop internal expertise in AI (LLMs, image generation, agents, AI workflow tools), robotics, and automation through targeted, small-scale projects.

Tracking & Interpreting Industry Technology Developments

• Keep an ear to the ground, alerting and educating the organization to relevant technological developments that are related to our areas of specialization, as well as opportunity areas.
• Attend relevant conferences that might afford us insights that drive our future strategies and explorations, while sharing learnings with the rest of the team.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE
1. Core Technical Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence technologies such as Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Diffusion Models, and other related technologies in service of applied innovation initiatives. Exceptions will be made for the right candidate based on specific abilities and experience at our discretion.
• Strong software architecture and system design ability: experience building complex software systems that integrate and scale.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building production solutions with modern AI tooling such as ComfyUI and/or Diffusers.
• Strong mathematical and algorithmic problem-solving ability.
• The capacity to learn a sophisticated architecture quickly and to operate with autonomy once established.

2. Preferred Experience

• Breadth across modern AI approaches, such as diffusion models and large language models, with the flexibility to use whatever technique a problem calls for rather than specializing in one.
• Experience delivering solutions that combine AI with substantial conventional software, mathematics, and algorithmic work.
• Familiarity with model fine-tuning and adaptation methods, such as LoRA.
• Comfort using ComfyUI flexibly, including beyond standard generation.
• Prior delivery of AI or software solutions for enterprise clients under formal brand, quality, and security standards.

3. Other Capabilities and Critical Behaviors

• Ability to conceive and develop original AI solutions in collaboration with our customers and other internal innovation resources to solve problems.
• Ability to take innovation plans constructed by leadership and make meaningful contributions to bring those plans to fruition.
• Expert ability to navigate corporate processes in the most expedient manner possible
• Excellent collaboration skills, the ability to work across diverse groups and individuals
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including the ability to present highly complex topics to audiences of widely varying levels of technical acumen.
• Relentless curiosity about AI related technical developments, and the initiative to continuously keep a finger on the pulse of those developments.

Starting Salary Range: $120,000-$125,000
TOTAL REWARDS
Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant:

• Our commitment to rewarding results
• Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers'-and our company's-success

There's more ...
Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
Paid parental and medical leave programs
401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
Hybrid work model
Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
Inclusive employee resource groups
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
RECRUITING AGENCIES
tms does not accept agency resumes submitted by third-party vendors unless a valid agreement has been signed and the tms Talent Acquisition Team has granted authorization for submissions for a specified position. Please do not submit or forward resumes to our site, tms employees, or any other company location. tms is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Nearest Major Market: Chicago