AI Cinematic Artist

We are partnering with a leading global technology company that is revolutionizing how customers interact with their entertainment. This innovative organization is dedicated to creating seamless and engaging user experiences for millions worldwide, focusing on cutting-edge solutions that redefine digital interaction. Join a team that values speed to market and direct customer impact, where your contributions will be visible to users within days or weeks.

Are you ready to be at the forefront of AI-driven creative innovation? We are seeking a visionary Creative Technologist with a passion for AI-generated media to design and tune the systems that will bring entertainment recommendations to life. This is a groundbreaking, short-term project where you'll build the entire pipeline for AI-generated short-form videos, transforming simple content suggestions into dynamic, character-driven narratives. There's no established playbook for this yet - you'll be writing it! Your work will directly shape the first interface customers see, making a tangible impact on how users discover and engage with content. If you thrive on solving novel challenges and building pioneering systems, this is your opportunity to leave an indelible mark on the future of media.

**Responsibilities:**

* **Character Design:** Precisely design virtual characters, defining their appearance, dialogue style, and interaction patterns to ensure consistent recreation by AI video models.

* **Creative Brief Development:** Craft detailed creative briefs that guide AI screenwriter personas, specifying content titles, character assignments, narrative structure, timing, and adherence rules.

* **AI Persona Refinement:** Build and continuously refine AI personas, including the screenwriter persona for script generation and the production persona for video prompt creation, focusing on system design rather than direct content creation.

* **Output Review and Diagnosis:** Critically review AI-generated scripts and videos, identifying issues such as timing discrepancies, tone inconsistencies, character drift, or dead air, and tracing problems back to the persona, brief, or model limitations.

* **System Iteration and Improvement:** Implement fixes by updating persona instructions, tightening brief constraints, or adjusting quality rules to prevent recurrence of identified problems, ensuring continuous system enhancement.

* **Quality Gate Ownership:** Establish and manage quality gates, including word-per-minute calculations, segment fill rates, content guidelines, and hook evaluation rules, to proactively catch issues before they reach the video model.

* **Evaluation Criteria Definition:** Define comprehensive scoring rubrics for an AI evaluator, assessing dialogue accuracy, character consistency, audio quality, and pacing to ensure high-quality generated videos, and adjust rubrics as needed.

**Qualifications:**

**Must-Have:**

* Experience writing for spoken dialogue, such as screenwriting, podcast scripts, or voice-over, where words are intended for auditory consumption.

* Familiarity with generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs) for script generation and video/image models for visual output, understanding their capabilities, limitations, and prompt structure impact.

* Proven prompt engineering experience, demonstrating the ability to iterate on instructions to achieve consistent, high-quality results from AI systems and diagnose output failures.

* Exceptional ability to articulate specific reasons why a generated video is suboptimal, moving beyond general observations to precise technical and creative feedback (e.g., "character appearance drifted from segment 2 to 3").

* Strong systems thinking capabilities, understanding how changes within one part of a creative pipeline (e.g., character file) impact subsequent stages (e.g., screenwriter persona, script, video prompt, final video).

* Comfort working with structured data formats, including JSON, markdown templates, and timing calculations, as creative work is integrated into automated pipelines.

* Working familiarity with video production concepts such as framing, camera language, lighting, and pacing, sufficient to provide effective direction for a video model.

* Self-directed and proactive, capable of independently monitoring output, identifying problems, implementing system fixes, and re-running processes.

**Nice-to-Have:**

* Experience with character design for visual media, including illustration, animation, or character-driven content.

* Background in content recommendation, streaming services, or the entertainment industry.

* Familiarity with text-to-speech (TTS) systems and how script structure influences synthesized voice quality.

* Experience building or managing creative toolchains, including templates, style guides, and quality checklists, to scale output.

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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