Visual Storytelling Lead

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. At least 5 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 Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly. Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field. Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day. About us Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies. Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better: Here’s a quick glimpse of Proximity and what it’s like to be a Proxonaut: Visit this YouTube link to listen to what our CEO, Hardik Jagda , has to say about Proximity. Meet some of our Proxonauts here: Know thy Proxonauts better Here are some quick links to the Careers page , Blog , and Studio Proximity (our design wing). Follow our team's #BTS (behind-the-scenes) updates on our Instagram channels — - @ProxWrks - @H.Jagda