AI Creative Technologist
Workday
Workday's in-house creative team builds and operates internal AI tools (Creative AI Studio) to support designers and writers. This contract role will both build and maintain role-specific AI agents, integrations and automations, and support/train non-technical creatives while evaluating AI vendors from a technical/security/data perspective.
What you’ll do
- Build new role-specific AI agents
- Create integrations and automations over APIs and MCP servers
- Support users and improve agents via PRs
- Teach designers and writers to use shipped tools
- Evaluate AI vendors for architecture, security, data handling, and pricing
What they’re looking for
- Have shipped AI agents or agentic workflows that real users depend on
- Comfortable in a repo: branches, PRs, code review, release hygiene
- Understand APIs, auth, webhooks, and MCP and can map data flows
- Can teach non-technical creatives without jargon
Skills
- AI agents / agentic workflows: Claude Code, Cursor, agentic workflows, shipped AI agents
- Version control / code review: repo, branches, PRs, code review, release hygiene
- APIs & webhooks: APIs, auth, webhooks, map data flows
- MCP: MCP, MCP servers
- Vendor evaluation / security: architecture, security, data handling, pricing, AI vendors
The post
Workday | AI Creative Technologist | Pleasanton, CA | ONSITE | Contract
Workday's in-house creative team already uses AI every day. We built our own agent platform (Creative AI Studio) and now need a hands-on technologist to keep it running well and build what comes next.
Half the work is building: new role-specific agents, plus integrations and automations over APIs and MCP servers that move work from request to brief to production to review with fewer manual handoffs. The other half is making shipped tools work for people: supporting users, improving agents through PRs, and teaching designers and writers to get real value from them. You'll also be our technical filter on AI vendors, looking past the demo to the architecture, security, data handling, and pricing.
You'd be a good fit if you: - Have shipped AI agents or agentic workflows that real users depend on (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) - Are at home in a repo: branches, PRs, code review, release hygiene - Understand APIs, auth, webhooks, and MCP, and can map data flows before you build - Can teach a room of non-technical creatives without jargon
Not a fit if you want to build but not support or teach, or you'd rather research AI than ship it.
To apply, email chris.varela@workday.com with your resume and links or write-ups for one or two things you've built. For each one, tell me what problem it solved, how it works, and what you'd change now. I'm the hiring manager and read every one.