Lead Creative Technologist (AI)

MrQ; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday leave

Parental leave (4 weeks)

International health & life insurance

Wellness incentives

Growth allowance

Flexible working

Multinational team

Job summary

MrQ in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on creative technologist to lead AI-driven design, video and campaign work. You’ll prototype with image and video models, set up pipelines, and turn the best ideas into player-visible outputs that stay on-brand.

You’ll build tools, train teammates, and shape workflows, while evaluating new models, managing costs, licensing and provenance. Join a fast-moving, multinational team and help define responsible AI practice in a regulated entertainment business.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a hands-on creative role with craft across design, motion, video or creative technology.
• Deep, practical fluency across modern generative AI for image, video and audio, plus LLMs for creative and production workflows.
• Enough technical ability to build and automate, scripting or node-based work to connect tools and remove manual grind.
• Proven ability to teach, coach or build things a team adopts and keeps using.
• Genuine curiosity about casino, gaming or entertainment and understanding of why people play.
• Honesty to call out AI hype when you see it, including when it's coming from us.

Responsibilities

• Lead briefs from concept to delivery across design, motion, video, and AI pipelines.
• Prototype using image and video models, experimentation with models and pipelines.
• Maintain brand quality; ensure outputs are on-brand and high-quality.
• Build and maintain tools, templates, and automation that the team uses daily.
• Coach and run hands-on sessions to share workflows across disciplines.
• Scout and test new models/tools with cost, licensing and provenance in mind.

Skills

Hands-on creative

Generative AI fluency

Scripting/automation

Teaching/coaching

Startup mindset

Casino entertainment interest

Tools

Python

JavaScript

APIs

Node-based tools

Job description

MrQ - we're an awesome, award winning online casino launched in 2018. We're big on tech, big on performance and most of all - big on fun. Over the years, we have experienced explosive growth - which means we need more rock stars to join our quest for total world domination.

What You Will Do

The making half (where you're a hands-on creative).

• Take briefs from concept to delivery alongside the rest of the team, static and motion design, video, campaign assets, sponsorship activations, merch, with AI running through the pipeline as a native part of how the work gets made, not a shortcut tacked on at the end.
• Prototype the new stuff. You're the one experimenting with the latest image and video models, control techniques and pipelines, then turning the best of them into work a player will actually see.
• Hold the quality line. AI-assisted never means off-brand or off-craft. Everything still has to look, move and sound unmistakably like MrQ, and be good enough to stand next to the best work in the category, full stop.
• Solve the problems nobody's solved yet, brand-consistent characters across a whole campaign, a look that can't be produced any other way, a turnaround that shouldn't be possible.

The multiplying half (where you’re levelling up the team around you).

• Build, document and maintain the tools, templates and pipelines the team uses every day: image and video generation, model fine-tuning, upscaling and finishing, versioning, and automation that connects our existing tools together.
• Train models on our own brand assets so AI output stays on-brand by default, LoRAs, fine-tunes and reference systems that make consistency the path of least resistance rather than a fight.
• Teach and coach. Run hands-on sessions, pair with designers and editors, and set each discipline up with workflows that fit how they already work, so a sceptical motion designer ends up faster, not made to feel behind.
• Scout the landscape. Track what's genuinely worth adopting and what's noise, test new models and tools, and make clear recommendations with cost, licensing and provenance in mind. The names will change every few months; your judgement about which ones matter is the point.
• Set the guardrails. Help define how MrQ uses AI responsibly, rights, provenance and content credentials, brand safety, and compliance in a regulated industry, so we can move fast without getting the brand or the business into trouble.

What We're Looking For

You've spent years actually making things, design, motion, video, or creative technology, and your portfolio proves it. It shows craft, not just tooling. Work you'd defend in a room full of people who know the difference.

You know the modern generative stack cold, in practice, not in theory: image models and video models are like a second language - you know their strengths, weaknesses and hwen wider testing is needed. Node-based pipelines, audio tools and LLMs are used properly across ideation and production and you’re the reason. You've felt the sharp edges of all of it and you know where each one earns its place.

You're technical enough to be dangerous. You can probably script and automate a little, Python, JavaScript, APIs, node-based tools, to wire things together and take the manual grind out of a workflow. You don't need to be a software engineer. You do need to be the kind of person who builds the thing instead of waiting for someone to build it for you.

You've got patience and generosity. You can teach a new workflow to someone who's convinced they don't need it, and leave them glad you did. The best technique in the world is worthless if nobody else on the team will touch it.

You've got honest judgement. You can tell genuinely useful from merely shiny, and you'll say so out loud, even when the shiny thing is the one everyone's excited about.

And you've got startup instincts. Small team, fast brand. You're happy owning things end to end and shipping without a big production line behind you.

• 5+ years in a hands-on creative role; design, motion, video or creative technology, with a portfolio that shows real craft.
• Deep, practical fluency across modern generative AI for image, video and audio, plus LLMs for creative and production workflows. Hands on the tools, not just opinions about them.
• Enough technical ability to build and automate, scripting or node-based work to connect tools and remove manual grind.
• Proven ability to make other people better. Evidence you've taught, coached or built things a team actually adopted and kept using.
• Genuine curiosity about casino, gaming or entertainment. You don't need to be a player; you need to understand why people play.
• The honesty to call out AI hype when you see it, including when it's coming from us.

What We're Not Looking For

• Reporting to: Darren Suffolk
• Level: 5

What We Offer

At MrQ, we take pride in providing an array of fantastic benefits to our valued team members. Enjoy a competitive salary package that recognizes your hard work and dedication. Need some extra time off? We've got you covered with additional leave days, and we believe in celebrating life's special moments, including your birthday, with dedicated birthday leave. Family matters to us, too, which is why we offer a generous four-week parental leave. Your well-being is our priority, supported by international health and life insurance. Stay motivated with wellness incentives and seize opportunities for personal and professional growth with our growth allowance. Embrace a flexible working environment that caters to your needs, and join our friendly and multinational team, where collaboration and camaraderie flourish. At MrQ, we're committed to ensuring that your experience with us goes beyond just a job – it's a fulfilling journey with a supportive community.

We are committed to fostering a workplace that values and celebrates diversity. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we believe that a diverse and inclusive environment leads to innovation and success. We actively promote equal opportunities for all employees and strive to create a space where everyone's voices are heard and respected. Join us in our journey to build a truly inclusive workplace where every person can thrive and contribute to our collective success.