Creative Technologist

Workman Labs; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma AI is hiring a Creative Technologist to drive the build engine for its Forward Deployed Creative team. You will pressure-test new models and endpoints and turn capabilities into working prototypes, demo boards, and reusable pipelines for Sales and FDCs to win customers.

In this role you will build end-to-end production workflows tailored to brand, agency, and entertainment use cases, translate briefs into prototypes, and collaborate with Sales on discovery and demo prep.

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 how professional creative work gets made and shipped.
• A portfolio showing taste, craft, and range across mediums.
• Speed and a prototyping instinct — solving creative problems by building.
• Comfort working alongside Sales and embedded creatives, translating between commercial goals and creative execution.
• Nice to have: experience at Buck, The Mill, or in-house lab (Google Creative Lab, Unity).
• Nice to have: building with generative AI APIs or integrating AI tools into production pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end production workflows, concept to delivery, tailored to brand, agency, and entertainment use cases.
• Translate real customer briefs into working prototypes that prove what is 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 FDCs use to drive adoption.
• Develop reusable boards, templates, and pipelines, and document what works.

Skills

Generative AI expertise

Brand/agency/film experience

Portfolio of work

Rapid prototyping

Sales collaboration

Agency/lab experience (nice-to-have)

AI APIs integration (nice-to-have)

Job description

Luma AI is hiring a Creative Technologist as the build engine behind its Forward Deployed Creative team — pressure-testing new models and endpoints before anyone else and turning what Luma can do into working prototypes, demo boards, and reusable pipelines that Sales and FDCs use to win customers.

$145,000 – $205,000 / yr

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What you'll do

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end production workflows, concept to delivery, tailored to brand, agency, and entertainment use cases Common
• Translate real customer briefs into working prototypes that prove what is 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 Common
• Build and maintain a library of vertical-specific demos and customer boards FDCs use to drive adoption
• Develop reusable boards, templates, and pipelines, and document what works

What you'll need

Experience

• 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 how professional creative work gets made and shipped Common
• A portfolio showing taste, craft, and range across mediums
• Speed and a prototyping instinct — solving creative problems by building
• Comfort working alongside Sales and embedded creatives, translating between commercial goals and creative execution Unique
• Nice to have: experience at an innovative agency (Buck, The Mill) or in-house lab (Google Creative Lab, Unity)
• Nice to have: building with generative AI APIs or integrating AI tools into production pipelines Common