AI Filmmaker Team Lead

AI Filmmaker Team Lead

Fully Remote Work From Home Role

Part-time with potential to transition into a full-time role

(JOB ID: AIFBF2026)

Role
Our client is a character driven entertainment company in the comic and anime universe, with decades of storytelling across publishing, film, games, and digital media.

They are seeking an AI Filmmaker Team Lead to combine cinematic storytelling and filmmaking with AI to transform scripts into fully produced visual content.

The ideal candidate is a filmmaker first, someone who thinks in scenes, shots, pacing, and storytelling, knows camera movement and lens choices, with also hands on experience using AI Tools as part of the creative process.

Initially, you will operate as an individual contributor, owning the production process from prompting and generation through editing and final assembly. Over time, you will transition into a leadership role overseeing AI generators and production workflows across multiple projects.

Responsibilities
• Apply a director’s mindset to script interpretation
• Translate scripts into visual outputs through structured prompting using AI tools
• Break scenes into organized shot sequences (wide, medium, close-up, transitions, pacing, etc)
• Edit and assemble clips into cohesive, story driven content
• Refine outputs for narrative clarity, pacing, visual consistency, and emotional continuity
• Experiment with different AI models and workflows to achieve multiple visual styles
• Optimize production workflows for scalability, consistency, and efficiency
• Eventually train and guide AI generators and team members

Requirements
• Proven cinematic narrative filmmaking experience
• Hands on experience using advanced video tools in a professional creative environment, including AI video generation models (such as Runway ML, Sora, Higgsfield, Kling, or similar) and post production softwares (such as DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid, or similar)
• Strong understanding of storytelling, shot composition, pacing, and cinematic structure
• Experience translating scripts into visual outputs using prompting and creative direction
• Strong English communication skills (C1/C2)
• Ability to independently manage full production workflows from generation to final delivery

Highly Preferred
• Experience working with animation, comic, anime, or entertainment related projects

Location

Remote

Availability

Part-Time (20h per week)

Must be available during U.S. Pacific Time business hours
*While this role is structured to begin at 20 hours per week, there is flexibility to offer an immediate or expedited full-time position to a candidate who demonstrates high level creative and technical expertise

Compensation
Based on skillsets

Originally posted on Himalayas