WHERE CURIOSITY MEETS IMPACT: DISCOVERING AI OPPORTUNITIES
THE OPPORTUNITY:
At Lakeshirts, we don't wait for the future. We build it. Our teams are already leveraging AI systems and programs that enhance workflows, speed up turnaround times and transform how we operate each and every day. This role builds on our commitment to Continuous Improvement, ensuring we continue advancing, adapting, and remaining NIMBLE as technology evolves. We aim to empower teams and boost work quality with AI-driven, innovative solutions.
We're seeking an AI Innovation Specialist to help identify, test, and pilot AI opportunities across the business. This role is all about exploration and experimentation: discovering where AI can make the biggest changes, document findings and working with our teams to bring your findings to life.
Reporting to the IT manager, you'll work across various departments asking the right questions, running pilots, and turning promising ideas into practical AI solutions. While project management and process ownership stay with our skilled PMO and department teams, your main responsibility is to apply your AI expertise to existing systems and help us to make our work even better.
Schedule: Monday–Friday 8a-5p
Location: Onsite Detroit Lakes, MN
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS | Research + Pilot + Capture + Collaborate
QUALIFICATIONS | Evaluate + Analytical Thinking + Team Player
WHY LAKESHIRTS IS THE PLACE YOU WANT TO BE. At Lakeshirts, we believe in making work as awesome as the apparel we create. We're not just a t-shirt company- we're also a hat, sticker, and sock company (and so much more!). We're a place where creativity meets culture, where ideas and innovation are encouraged, and where the atmosphere is truly one-of-a-kind. As one of the largest screenprinting manufacturers in the U.S., we decorate a variety of garments and accessories for the resort, licensed collegiate, and K-12 markets, supported by over 1,000 ah-mazing team members from sea to shining sea.
OUR CULTURE TRULY SETS US APART. Life at Lakeshirts is all about embracing our core values, having fun, and working with great people who make every day an opportunity to thrive. We're looking for those who want to roll up their sleeves and make an impact while enjoying a culture that values creativity, teamwork, continuous improvement, and empowering each team member to define and elevate their success. We also foster a strong sense of community and are dedicated to wowing our customers on the daily. The wage range for this position starts at $50,000-$70,000 based on experience.
LIFE'S BETTER IN A T-SHIRT & SO IS WORK! Here's what you can expect when you join the Lakeshirts team:
Cognitive or Mental Requirements of the Job:
Employee must be able to see and hear, read and write. Requires adaptability, analyzing, assessing, calculating, decision making, dependability, judgment, reading, speaking, following direction, handling multiple priorities, reasoning.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
NEVER (0%): Climb, Crawl, Lift 25–50 lbs., Lift over 50 lbs., Carry 25–50 lbs., Carry over 50 lbs.
OCCASIONALLY (1%–33%): Lift, Stand, Walk, Carry, Push, Pull, Balance, Bend, Twist, Reach, Lift under 10 lbs., Lift 10–24 lbs., Carry under 10 lbs., Carry 10–24 lbs.
FREQUENTLY (34%–66%): Reach below shoulder height.
CONTINUOUSLY (67%–100%): Sit.
Lakeshirts is a custom apparel decorating company that started in our owner’s parents’ basement in 1984. We have since grown to an $200 million+ company in a 275,000 square foot facility. Our production floor includes 48 automatic screenprint presses, 32 multi-head embroidery machines, six 60-foot laser appliqué bridges, three sublimation presses, and a number of dogs running around the place.
Lakeshirts sales continue to grow, as does its profitability, due to the hard work and continuous improvement efforts of its 500+ employees and over 60 nation-wide reps.
Lakeshirts provides decorated apparel to thousands of customers in the resort and college markets, being a preferred choice to customers based on its breadth of great designs, great garments in its inventory, and reliable and responsive delivery.
With more than 40 artists on our staff, we create thousands of pieces of art each year, giving each customer a unique look. We have over 100 bodystyles in stock, and each one comes in a multitude of colors, totaling more than 1,000,000 pieces in our inventory.
This is all done in a culture that reflects respect, community, and fun. Our culture is second-to-none and must be experienced to be truly understood. If you happen to be in the lakes area, we invite you to stop in and see for yourself. We always enjoy visits, and we’re proud to show off the community that we’ve called “home” for all of our lives. And if you happen to bring along a Milk Bone or two with you, we know you’ll make some very quick and deep friendships.
Life’s Better in a T-shirt
