Head of AI Workflows / Lead Architect

About the role

The role sits across filmmakers, Wonder's go-to-market organization, model partners, the Wonder community, product, and engineering to turn emerging capabilities into production-ready workflows. This is a filmmaker-first role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Wonder's GTM team and leading generative model providers, including Google, Kling, ByteDance, Magnific, and others, to test early access to upcoming models through APIs, assess creative and production readiness, and identify where new capabilities can create value for filmmakers and partners
• Work with the Wonder community to discover emerging techniques, identify workflows with real production potential, and develop the strongest experiments into repeatable studio capabilities
• Build and maintain a shared library of AI filmmaking techniques, reference workflows, model evaluations, and production playbooks that equips creative technologists and AI production teams across Wonder and its community
• Read and break down scripts with filmmakers to identify scenes, sequences, and production challenges where AI can expand creative options, accelerate iteration, or solve practical constraints, always in service of the filmmaker's intent
• Turn proven techniques into dependable production workflows by leading prototypes and deployments, integrating established creative tools and infrastructure, defining quality, cost, and reliability benchmarks, and translating recurring needs into product and engineering priorities

Requirements

Significant experience in VFX, post-production, animation, creative technology, or production engineering; a blend between an engineering first-principles mindset and a passion for film and creativity

Significant hands-on knowledge of generative and traditional VFX image and video systems, APIs, node-based workflows, and platforms such as ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Flux, Runway, Veo, Luma, Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve, Unreal Engine, Nuke, or Maya

A demonstrated track record of taking emerging technology from early evaluation and prototyping through to a dependable workflow used on a real production

Comfort working directly with directors, producers, production designers, VFX supervisors, editors, artists, engineers, model partners, customers, and senior executives

Strong technical and product judgment across creative quality, controllability, infrastructure cost, reliability, security, licensing, production deadlines, and operational risk

Excellent communication and teaching skills, with the ability to turn complex techniques into clear documentation, demonstrations, workshops, and reusable learning resources

High ownership, bias to action, intellectual honesty, and a filmmaker-first mindset — you move quickly, communicate limitations clearly, and believe AI should amplify creative teams rather than replace them

Qualifications

Competitive compensation: $150-200k and meaningful equity, based on experience and scope