Creative Technologist

Luma; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma is seeking a hands-on, experienced creator to join Forward Deployed Creative. You will translate briefs into working prototypes, pressure-test new models, and build demo boards for live pitches, collaborating with Sales to show value.

The role combines production execution with rapid prototyping in a creative tech environment. You thrive when building the thing rather than discussing it, and you bring a portfolio that demonstrates taste, craft, and range across media.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on daily experience using generative AI for image and video.
• Background in brands, agencies, or film production and VFX, with a feel for professional creative work.
• A portfolio that shows taste, craft, and range across mediums.
• Speed and a prototyping instinct: you solve creative problems by building.
• Comfort working alongside Sales and embedded creatives, translating between commercial goals and creative execution.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end production workflows, concept to delivery, tailored to brand/agency/entertainment use cases.
• Translate real customer briefs into working prototypes that prove what's possible.
• Pressure-test new models, endpoints, and features, developing techniques that push generative AI forward.
• Build demo boards that demonstrate Luma's value in live pitches, and collaborate with Sales on discovery and demo prep.
• Develop reusable boards, templates, and pipelines, and document what works so it spreads across the team.

Skills

Generative AI for image/video

Prototype & rapid iteration

Brand/agency/production background

Communication with Sales

Tools

Generative AI APIs

Job description

You'll work close to the model and close to the craft, and translate between them every day. You're the build engine behind Forward Deployed Creative: you pressure-test new endpoints and features before anyone else and turn what Luma can do into working examples that prospects and customers can see, touch, and copy.

This is a hands‑on individual contributor role that expects a professional bar from brands, agencies, or production, so the workflows you build hold up under real creative scrutiny rather than only in a demo. It fits someone who'd rather build the thing than talk about building it. If you're looking for a strategy or management seat, this isn't it.

What You'll Own

• Build end-to-end production workflows, concept to delivery, tailored to specific brand, agency, and entertainment use cases.
• Translate real customer briefs into working prototypes that prove what's possible.
• Pressure-test new models, endpoints, and features, developing techniques that push generative image and video forward.
• Build demo boards that make Luma's value obvious in a live pitch, and partner with Sales on discovery and demo prep.
• Build and maintain a library of vertical‑specific demos and customer boards that FDCs use to drive adoption.
• Develop reusable boards, templates, and pipelines, and document what works so it spreads across the team.

First 90 Days

One way the first 90 could unfold.

• Days 1–30 — Immerse & Diagnose: Learn the models and current endpoints deeply, and see how FDCs and Sales use creative today.
• Days 30–60 — Ship & Validate: Turn real customer briefs into working prototypes and demo boards used in live pitches.
• Days 60–90 — Scale & Systemize: Build a maintained demo library and reusable pipelines that scale across accounts and verticals.

What You Bring

• Deep, hands‑on daily experience using generative AI for image and video — you know where the tools break and where they shine.
• A background in brands, agencies, or film production and VFX, with a feel for how professional creative work gets made and shipped.
• A portfolio that shows taste, craft, and range across mediums.
• Speed and a prototyping instinct: you solve creative problems by building.
• Comfort working alongside Sales and embedded creatives, translating between commercial goals and creative execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience at an innovative creative agency (e.g. Buck, The Mill) or an in‑house tech/brand lab (e.g. Google Creative Lab, Unity).
• Hands‑on experience building with generative AI APIs or integrating AI tools into production pipelines.
• A public profile as a creator or thought leader in generative AI or emerging tech.

About Luma: Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence — the next step beyond language models comes from vision. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.