Applied AI Architect - Seedance / Seedream / Seed Audio

ByteDance; New York (NY); On-site; USD 159,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Restricted stock units

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance in New York seeks a customer-facing AI solutions leader to advise on AI transformation, sit with creators, and shape roadmaps across content, workflows, ROI, and governance. You will run discovery sessions, workshops, and partner with Sales to land strategic accounts.

You will prototype usable solutions on Seedance, Seedream and Seed Audio, and build playbooks and templates to scale adoption across industries.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a customer-facing technical or creative role in AI.
• History of advising stakeholders and moving from interest to decision.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI for video, image or audio.
• Able to ship a working prototype with Python/JS and APIs.
• Excellent communication to executives and creators.
• Experience teaching others via workshops or enablement.

Responsibilities

• Understand the industry workflows and how content is made and paid for.
• Map value from video, image and audio generation for customers.
• Lead discovery sessions, executive briefings and workshops.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development on strategic accounts.
• Prototype agentic solutions on Seedance, Seedream and Seed Audio.
• Design end-to-end solutions with APIs and customer tools.

Skills

3+ years exp

Executive advisory

Generative AI experience

Prototype shipping

Communication to execs/creators

Workshop/enablement

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

APIs

Job description

Responsibilities

Seedance, Seedream and Seed Audio are ByteDance's AI models for video, image and audio. Customers across advertising, gaming and frontier AI applications want to build with them, and most of those customers need more than an API key. They need someone who understands how their business makes content today, can show leaders where AI changes the economics, and can sit with their creators until the new workflow actually runs.

• Understand the industry and its workflows
• Build deep knowledge of how content is made and paid for in your target industries, from creative production and asset pipelines to budgets, timelines and performance metrics.
• Map where video, image and audio generation creates real value for a customer, and where it does not yet.
• Track how the industry is adopting generative media and turn that into a clear point of view on high-value use cases.
• Advise decision-makers on AI transformation
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives, including CMOs, studio heads, heads of creative and CTOs.
• Shape AI transformation roadmaps that cover use-case priorities, workflow and team changes, ROI, and governance for content safety and IP.
• Lead discovery sessions, executive briefings and workshops that turn broad ambition into scoped, fundable projects.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development on strategic accounts, from first conversation through deployment and expansion.
• Prototype agentic solutions on Seedance, Seedream and Seed Audio
• Turn real customer briefs into working prototypes quickly, so customers can judge results on their own content.
• Design end-to-end solutions that combine our models with APIs, agents, automation and the customer's existing tools and pipelines.
• Develop prompting and multi-model workflows that reach professional quality, and be honest about the limits of each model.
• Define how quality is evaluated for each use case, and guide customers from proof of concept to production.
• Enable creators and customer teams
• Design and run hands‑on training for creators, artists, marketers and developers at customer organizations.
• Create the materials that let adoption scale without you: playbooks, prompt guides, demo libraries, templates and reference workflows.
• Build internal capability by equipping our sales and solutions teams with demos and vertical stories.
• Represent our models at industry events, creator communities and customer showcases.
• Close the loop with Product and Research
• Bring structured field feedback to product and research teams, with concrete examples of what works and what fails.
• Separate one‑off customer requests from repeatable needs, and turn the repeatable ones into product requirements and reusable solutions.
• Test new model capabilities early and work out what they make possible for customers.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimally 3 years of experience in a customer‑facing technical or creative role, such as applied AI, solutions architecture, forward‑deployed engineering, creative technology, technical art, or AI consulting.
• A track record of advising stakeholders and moving them from interest to decision. Good at crafting tailored industry stories and solution pitches to convince stakeholders to take actions.
• Hands‑on experience with generative AI for video, image or audio, with a real sense of where today's tools excel and where they break.
• Ability to build: comfortable with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs and scripting, enough to ship a working prototype without waiting for an engineering team.
• Clear communication with both executives and creators, including explaining technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience teaching others, through workshops, training programs, public content or team enablement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in industries such as advertising, gaming, model labs, robotics, film, VFX, e-Commerce or other related fields.
• Having a portfolio of creative or technical work.
• Experience taking AI solutions from proof of concept to production in an enterprise setting.
• Familiarity with production tooling such as creative suites, ad platforms, game engines, 3D tools or simulation environments.
• Ideally coming with public presence in AI or creator communities.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $158824 - $317648 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
3. Exercising sound judgment.