Job Description

Job Location: SEATTLE, WA 98109Be the mastermind behind AI-generated short-form video content for major streaming platform.

RUN Studios, and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, are seeking an AI Creative Technologist to join for an approximate 6-month project!

This position requires 1 days onsite in Seattle, WA.

Our team is seeking contractor support for a short-term project requiring AI model expertise rather than full-time permanent support. The role offers unique selling points including speed to market with customer-facing changes visible within days or weeks, and direct impact on the first interface customers see when using our products.

Everything is AI-generated — the script, the voices, the video. Your job is to design and tune the system that produces it, and there's no established playbook for this yet! We're building short-form AI-generated videos for a major streaming ecosystem that will recommend movies and shows to viewers — two characters discussing a title, entirely produced by AI. You build the system that turns "here's a movie on our platform" into a finished video.

As an AI Creative Technologist, You Will

• 7+ years of design experience, with experience in AI models
• Design the characters — what they look like, how they talk, how they interact — written precisely enough that an AI video model can recreate them consistently every time.
• Write the creative briefs — the instructions that tell the AI screenwriter what to produce: which title, which characters, what structure, what timing, what rules to follow.
• Build and refine the AI personas — the screenwriter persona that generates scripts, the production persona that generates video prompts. You don't write the scripts or prompts directly — you build the systems that write them.
• Review the output — read the scripts, watch the videos, and when something is off (bad timing, wrong tone, character drift, dead air), trace the problem back to the persona, the brief, or the model's limitations.
• Update the system — fix the persona instructions, tighten the brief constraints, or adjust the quality rules so the same problem doesn't happen again. Every fix makes the next run better.
• Own the quality gates — word-per-minute calculations, segment fill rates, content guidelines, hook evaluation rules — that catch problems before they reach the video model, because the model can't fix bad input on its own.
• Define the evaluation criteria — what makes a generated video good or bad? You define the scoring rubrics the AI evaluator uses: does the dialogue match the script, do the characters look consistent, is the audio clean, does the pacing hold attention? When the evaluator passes something it shouldn't (or rejects something it shouldn't), you adjust the rubrics.

As an Applicant, You Bring

• Experience writing for spoken dialogue — screenwriting, podcast scripts, voice-over, or similar formats where the words are meant to be heard, not read.
• Familiarity with generative AI models — both LLMs (for script generation) and video/image models (for visual output). You don't need to train them, but you need to understand what they're good at, where they break, and how prompt structure affects output.
• Prompt engineering experience — iterating on instructions to get consistent, high-quality results from AI systems, and diagnosing why output went wrong.
• Ability to articulate why a generated video doesn't work — not just "this looks off" but "the character's appearance drifted from segment 2 to 3" or "the pacing drops after the hook because the transition is too long." This precision is what makes evaluation criteria actionable for an AI scoring system.
• Systems thinking — you're building a creative pipeline, not a single artifact. You need to understand how a change to a character file affects the screenwriter persona which affects the script which affects the video prompt which affects the final video.
• Comfort with structured data — JSON, markdown templates, timing calculations. The creative work lives in structured formats that feed into automated pipelines.
• Working familiarity with video production concepts — framing, camera language, lighting, pacing — enough to write effective direction for a video model.
• Self-directed — you watch the output, find the problems, fix the system, and run it again.
• Experience with character design for visual media (illustration, animation, or character-driven content).

Bonus if You Have

• Background in content recommendation, streaming, or entertainment.
• Familiarity with TTS (text-to-speech) systems and how script structure affects synthesized voice quality.
• Experience building or managing creative toolchains — templates, style guides, quality checklists that scale output across titles.

Additional Position Details

• Supervisory Responsibilities
• None.
• Physical Demands
• Physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Work Environment
• Typical for an office setting or home environment.
• 1 day onsite in Seattle, WA.
• Travel
• None.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. At RUN Studios we recognize our ultimate success depends on our talented and dedicated workforce. We understand, value, and are grateful for the invaluable contributions made by each employee. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program of evolving competitive benefits specifically designed to support the needs of our employees and their dependents.

Compensation

Pay Range: $85.00 - $95.00(Hourly)

The successful candidate’s pay will be based on various factors such as individual qualifications and work location.

Benefits

Benefits and perks may vary depending on location and nature of the work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

As an equal opportunity employer, RUN Studios is committed to pay equity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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