People
Up to 25Multidisciplinary team leadership at Whiskey Glass; team accountability in Chrysler design leadership.
SAMUEL YOUNG ORIGINAL SYSTEMS FILMCreative Leadership · Creative Technology · Applied AI
Director,
Creative Strategy
& AI Innovation.
I lead creative strategy and AI innovation to turn complex products, technologies and business problems into clear human experiences.Creative strategy and AI innovation, made human.
More signal. More instinct. More human.
GUMI / ORIGINAL MYNKI ORCHESTRATION FILM
Silent cinema first. Sound when you want it.
GUMI / ORIGINAL PUBLISHED MYNKI CASE FILM
A distinct opening for this hiring path. Original film sound, optional.
FILM CONTEXT + SOURCE
The original GUMI orchestration film from the publicly presented Mynki case. It explains relationships between components; publication of the film is not a code audit, customer-deployment record or measured adoption result.
OPEN THE ORIGINAL CASE ↗01 / SAMUEL YOUNG
Director, Creative Strategy
& AI Innovation.
I lead creative strategy and AI innovation to turn complex products, technologies and business problems into clear human experiences.
Creative Leadership · Creative Technology · Applied AI
Experience Ford Model e · Nickelodeon · Northrop GrummanAI Strategist Mynki
VIEW EXECUTIVE SCOPE
The responsibility behind the work. People, budgets, clients and enterprise delivery.
Operating / financial
Budget responsibilityBudgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, production resources and vendor costs.
Cross-functional
Six Ford functionsProduct, data, marketing, operations, design and content.
Enterprise
Platforms + programsAutomotive design platforms, Navy aerospace engineering and enterprise creative delivery.
Client
Acquisition → deliveryStudio client ownership, proposals, scoping, resources and relationships.
Outcomes
Sales + profitWhiskey Glass’s deployed exhibit purchasing/customization workflow.
AUTHORITY / WHO DECIDED WHAT
Direct operating authority is clearest at Whiskey Glass: clients, proposals, scoping, contributors, budgets, vendors and delivery. Chrysler records design-team/platform, financial-planning and technical-review responsibility. Witrye covers consulting product/design direction, standards and review. Mynki adds founder-owned product, architecture and experience decisions while retaining Samuel’s AI Strategist title. Ford combines direct creator/content direction with six-function coordination; Northrop is senior technical responsibility inside a larger program; Scimund is product/design leadership plus contribution during development toward an acquisition.
Direct creator/content authority; coordination and influence across the wider functions.
No invented Fortune 100 VP/C-suite appointment, manager-of-managers structure, program-wide control, sole acquisition causality or universal role qualification.
SCALE / PEOPLE, MONEY & PROGRAMS
People
The strongest documented team scale is 25. Chrysler’s historical professional record describes design-lead accountability for a team of 25. At Whiskey Glass Studios, Samuel recruited and directed up to 25 in-house and remote multidisciplinary contributors.
These are team/contributor counts, not a verified maximum of formal direct reports, permanent employees or managers reporting to him.
Operating / financial
Yes. Budget responsibility is established. Chrysler’s Jeep/Truck design-platform work included financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and cost analysis. At Whiskey Glass, Samuel set and managed budgets, allocated production resources and evaluated vendor costs alongside client delivery.
The largest dollar amount, delegated signing limit and formal P&L scope are not presently documented. That does not mean no budget responsibility.
Enterprise
Yes. Samuel’s enterprise responsibility includes Chrysler Jeep/Truck design-platform leadership, senior design engineering within Northrop Grumman’s U.S. Navy Hawkeye environment, and Ford Model e creator/content leadership. At Northrop his scope included conceptual/assembly layouts, metallic/composite structures, lab/prototype design, dimensional controls, supplier/procurement coordination, field testing and product support.
This is actual responsibility within large organizations, not ownership of entire companies, the aircraft program, its budget or final enterprise approvals. Ford employment remains separate from the independent public Ford study.
Client
Whiskey Glass is Samuel’s clearest direct client-operating example. He co-founded the studio and owned client acquisition, proposals, briefs, scoping, relationships, resource coordination and creative delivery. Documented clients include Coca-Cola, Maker’s Mark, Radio One and Mitchell & Ness. Witrye adds product/design consulting leadership and delivery for engagements including Suunto and Peloton.
A largest account by revenue or contract value is not documented. Do not attach the exhibit metrics to a named client, or merge historical Coca-Cola client work with UH OH’s separate Coca-Cola/F1 study.
OUTCOMES / WHAT MOVED INTO USE
Whiskey Glass / purchasing + customization
56%Reported sales increase during one exhibit.
32%Reported profit increase within 90 days.
The clearest documented commercial example is Whiskey Glass’s QR-code/Square immediate-purchase and customization workflow: a reported 56% sales increase during one exhibit and 32% profit increase within 90 days. The workflow was implemented and used; Samuel has explicitly confirmed the two historical results.
Inspected historical professional record plus Samuel’s specific confirmation. These are candidate-confirmed historical results, not independently audited financials.
The sales and profit periods are different. No named-client attribution, gross/net profit definition, original calculation dataset or particular cost/labor mechanism is established. Profit increase is not margin percentage points, revenue lift or staffing savings.
Different forms of execution
Work moved beyond concept in several distinct ways. Whiskey Glass deployed the QR/Square exhibit workflow. Ford delivered and reused modular launch/EV-education content frameworks. Chrysler records real design/program work; Northrop records prototypes, field testing and U.S./European product support. Nickelodeon marketing design progressed from brief to production-ready delivery. Scimund progressed functional alpha/form-fit prototypes and production planning. Mynki’s Symbiosis is a released public Streamlit prototype/simulation; PRYSM, GUMI and IMPRINTS retain concept/architecture stages.
Delivery, reuse, production-ready work, field tests, prototypes, organizational adoption and measured impact are not interchangeable. Exact Chrysler component releases, company-wide Ford adoption and Mynki enterprise customer deployment remain unestablished.
SOURCE / WHAT THIS ESTABLISHES
Reviewed against historical and current professional documentation and Samuel’s specific responsibility/outcome confirmations. The underlying private résumés and records are not published or sent to the recruiter model.
Chrysler team/platform/finance: historical engineering and design-lead records. Whiskey Glass team/budgets/clients/results: historical studio record and specific commercial confirmations. Ford: approved role record and creator/content scope. Northrop: technical-design, field and support history. Witrye, Scimund and Nickelodeon: confirmed role and delivery records. Mynki: founder ownership and component-specific prototype stages.
This is professionally documented and candidate-confirmed career evidence, not an independent HR or accounting audit. Largest budget dollars and formal reporting lines remain unestablished; missing public artifacts do not mean missing experience.
PUBLIC PROFILE / CONTEXT ↗ASK ABOUT A SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITY →
BACKGROUND / THE CONNECTING THREAD
One professional. A connected practice.
Engineering → product → creative leadership → brand/content systems → applied AI.
The recurring work is making complicated systems, products and technologies understandable, useful and culturally relevant to people. Applied AI extends that foundation; it does not replace it.
Employer experience: Ford Model e, Nickelodeon and Northrop Grumman. Consulting: Witrye. Founder-led work: Whiskey Glass Studios, Mynki and UH OH.MEDIA. Client delivery, independent studies and component stages remain distinct.
I turn complex technology into clear human experiences.
PUBLIC PROFILE / CONTEXT →CURRENT LENS / AI strategy & transformation
Make intelligence useful to the people doing the work.
Start with human decision-making, product/experience direction and the choices behind an AI system. Verify implementation and adoption separately for a particular role.
LEADERSHIP CONTEXT
Up to 25 multidisciplinary contributors.
Setting priorities. Challenging decisions. Aligning specialists around a shared outcome.
Public profile context, not 25 direct reports or a claim about the team behind each study. SOURCE / PROFILE ↗HOW I WORK / FIVE PRINCIPLES
- Evidence over exaggeration.
- Human judgment stays visible.
- AI has to earn its place.
- Complexity belongs underneath the experience.
- Make the signal useful.
02 / SAMUEL YOUNG
Director, Creative Strategy & AI Innovation
AI strategy &
transformation.
One professional. Three hiring interpretations. Explore the relevant decisions, contribution and work.
RELEVANT ROLE FAMILIES
- Director, AI Strategy
- Senior Director, AI Transformation
- AI Product Strategy
- Creative AI / workflow transformation leadership
Role families to consider, not a claim of fit for every opening. The actual brief determines scope.
A relevant example
REFINE THE SELECTION
Editorial selection, not a certified role match. No AI request is made.
COMPARE KEPT EXAMPLES
OPEN THE ORIGINAL CASE COLLECTION
Alpha interface / published case film
PRYSM
From a pile of signals to a readable decision.
THE IDEA / MY PART / WHAT EXISTS +OPEN ORIGINAL CASE ↗
Published orchestration case + film
GUMI
Intelligence needs a conductor.
THE IDEA / MY PART / WHAT EXISTS +OPEN ORIGINAL CASE ↗
Forward-looking conceptual system
NeuroDrift
Explore control when the environment changes.
THE IDEA / MY PART / WHAT EXISTS +OPEN ORIGINAL CASE ↗
Concept + simulation / access may be required
Symbiosis
Make the logic behind a decision visible.
THE IDEA / MY PART / WHAT EXISTS +OPEN ORIGINAL CASE ↗
FASHION / CONCEPT + PRODUCED MEDIA ↗ADDITIONAL CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY STUDY / INDEPENDENT
Emerald Cocoon
A dress that can become its own shelter.
Samuel set the cocoon idea, references, emerald direction, casting and wrap–reveal–return brief. AI-generated imagery and motion, with AI-assisted coding and After Effects assembly, made that direction inspectable.
THE IDEA / MY PART / WHAT EXISTS
The challenge: imagine an expressive inner dress that wraps into a protective exterior, then identify what it would take to make it.
Samuel’s contribution: concept and creative direction, visual and movement requirements, review and the physics-first material-development ambition. Collaborative implementation is credited in the case.
Produced: twelve generated key poses, concept films, retrospective white-background studies and a sourced explanatory development brief. A sewn garment, calibrated simulation, responsive textile, market demand and protective/comfort performance have not been established.
Relevant capability: creative technology direction, AI-assisted visual production and translating a fashion idea into explicit construction and testing questions—not proof of textile-engineering certification or a manufactured product.
Published studies, produced media, prototypes, simulations and employer delivery are different states. Each story identifies its own context and scope. The broader archive remains available from the main portfolio.
03 / MYNKI · APPLIED AI & SYSTEMS
Not just an answer.
A way to act.
UH OH is the creative expression. Mynki opens the systems behind it. Same person, another layer of the work.
PUBLISHED CASE + FILM / COMPONENT STAGES REVIEWED SEPARATELY
More signal.
Less guesswork.
Explore how raw inputs become a decision someone can understand.
ORIGINAL CASE / FILM + CONTEXT ↗
01 / CAPTUREIMPRINTSWhat enters the system?
↗IMPRINTS / ORIGINAL SYSTEM FILM
02 / INTERPRETPRYSMWhat could it mean?
↗PRYSM / PUBLISHED CASE FILM
03 / COORDINATEGUMIWhat deserves attention?
↗GUMI / EDITORIAL IMAGE
04 / HUMAN RESPONSEThe next choice.Keep the person in view.
↗HUMAN RESPONSE / EDITORIAL IMAGENEW EDITORIAL MAP OF THE PUBLIC MYNKI ARCHITECTURE / NOT A LIVE SYSTEM OR HISTORICAL PROCESS ARTIFACT
For AI strategy, creative technology and product-system conversations, start with the logic, then inspect the component.
My contribution, what exists & what to verify
Samuel leads Mynki’s founder-owned AI and systems practice. This chapter presents its public architecture and published case media. Design direction, code authorship, prototype behavior, deployment and measured outcomes are separate questions; inspect them component by component.
NeuroDrift is explicitly a forward-looking concept. Symbiosis presents a conceptual decision example and a simulation route, not a claim of deployed financial-service customers. Unknown maturity in another component does not make that component absent or automatically conceptual.
REVIEW THE SOURCE CASES ↗04 / THE MAKING IS PART OF THE WORK
Open the hood.
Not just the highlight reel.
Actual supplied working screenshots from the independent PULSE study, with contribution and original CAD credits intact.
Samuel’s stated contribution: assembly, geometry changes, materials and lighting in Shapr3D / Blender.
WORKING ARTIFACTS + CREDITS →The separately linked wheel motion is AI animation derived from CAD screenshots, not a CAD-session recording or validated mechanical simulation. These are independent-study artifacts, not substitutes for historical employer work.
05 / THE PERSON, NOT THE PERSONA
Precision.
Curiosity.
And a laugh.
Aerospace taught precision. Automotive taught scale. Entertainment taught narrative. The thread is making complex things useful to people.
“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.”
— My résumé died in the ATS. “We’ll be in touch” was the eulogy.
Work can have a point of view—and a sense of humor.
MEET / READ ABOUT SAMUEL ↗PROFILE AUDIO · 3 MIN
Adapted from the existing public profile. By Chance LaRue. Original portrait photography by Kip Jules. Presence film supplied by Samuel Young. READ THE ORIGINAL ↗
06 / THE RECRUITER QUESTIONS
Ask the useful
questions.
Ask about the role, a decision or a contribution. Open supporting detail only when you need it.
QUESTION IDEAS
Your question and recent context go to Google Gemini. Use public, non-sensitive details only.
THE NEXT CONVERSATION
Tell me what
you’re trying to make happen.
Bring the role, the challenge and the evidence you need to see. Let’s make the conversation specific.
How to read the evidence
Published studies, produced media, prototypes, professional delivery and operational deployments are different stages. A missing public artifact is not an absence of experience. Role-specific authority, markets, adoption and measured impact require the appropriate case and documentation. This presentation is a useful starting point, not a guarantee of universal executive-role fit.
Private résumés and source records are not downloadable here. Request the current, role-relevant résumé or authorized materials directly from Samuel.
PUBLIC EVIDENCE GUIDE ↗