Visual Storytelling Lead

JioStar; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

JioStar seeks a Visual Storytelling Lead to oversee AI-driven visual narrative across serialized content. You will guide creative teams on camera framing, acting beats, and staging, while shaping policies, prompts, and architectures that enable AI-assisted production.

The role requires deep experience in traditional directing and GenAI-enabled workflows. You will collaborate with marketing and design teams to align AI-generated stories with brand goals and deliver innovative, high-quality

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience directing TV/serialized short form content.
• Proficiency in GenAI and traditional content creation tools.
• Ability to manage multiple productions simultaneously with quality.
• Excellent attention to detail and high creativity.
• Strong communication and openness to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and direction of creative teams for GenAI serialized content and camera/acting beats.
• Help develop AI policies, prompts, and guardrails to scale storytelling workflows.
• Understand filmmaking foundations for serialized short form content.
• Oversee AI-generated content quality and give creative feedback to artists.
• Collaborate with marketers, designers, and experts to align AI content with campaigns.
• Demonstrate rapid learning of new technologies and processes.

Skills

GenAI proficiency

Creative direction

Communication skills

Collaboration

Learning agility

Tools

GenAI tools

Job description

A Visual Storytelling Lead is an AI-native version of a Supervising Director role and requires both experience working with GenAI and 10+ years professional narrative (television, film, microdramas) directing experience, with at least 3 years experience giving notes and supervising other filmmakers. This role is responsible for crafting the image and video visual generation policies, the guardrails, the LLM-as-judge prompts, and the agentic role prompts (for asset creation, shot framing, camera moves, dramatic acting, action, etc.) to steer AI driven story generation. Leverage AI to develop new visual storytelling paradigms, new genres, new experiences – and expand the capabilities of every artist on the team to create more and better than ever. This role is also responsible for creatively supervising overall visual storytelling for multiple simultaneous series of innovative content developed leveraging an state-of-the-art AI-driven platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and direction of creative teams for GenAI serialized short form content: Help content production teams understand the visual storytelling language of short form content formats, both horizontal and vertical, guiding them to develop deep understanding of camera framing and movement, acting beats, staging action, compliment and contrast within a scene, and other elements of filmmaking as applied to short form content.
• AI innovation: Work with technical teams to help bring more AI capabilities into the visual storytelling workflow by helping develop policies, guardrails, creation prompts, validation prompts, and agentic architectures that become force multipliers for the entire team.
• Familiarity with filmmaking or animation: Understand traditional foundations, principles and procedures of producing filmed entertainment, especially serialized short form content.
• Oversee AI-generated content quality: Conduct human review and provide creative direction feedback to artists to drive them to create a compelling narrative for the audience.
• Collaboration: Work closely with marketers, designers, and subject-matter experts to align AI-assisted content with broader marketing goals and campaigns.
• Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, platforms, and complex processes.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of experience in TV and/or serialized short form creative direction.
• Proficiency in GenAI and traditional content creation tools.
• Understanding of content production principles and workflows.
• Ability to handle multiple productions simultaneously.
• Excellent attention to detail and creativity.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and openness to feedback.

JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.