Junior AI Art Director (Part-Time)

Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to use your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies headquartered in the US to the top of the list. Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. Utilizing more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service.

Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre.

Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies headquartered in North America by Deloitte and one of best-led companies by Inc. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of Newsweek’s Global Most Loved Workplaces®.

About the role

As a Junior AI Art Director, you will sit on the cutting edge of art and technology, directly shaping the visual engine driving Pattern’s ecommerce content! This is a part-time position (20 hours per week) where you will work closely with creative, engineering, and studio teams to vet and elevate AI-generated creative outputs spanning photography, copy, and video for hundreds of global brands. If you are interested in data-driven marketing, systems design, image generation, and pushing the limits of automated content generation, this is your opportunity to disrupt the industry!

Responsibilities

• Vetting Creative Outputs: Reviewing and auditing automated AI image generations, copy, and video content for visual quality and brand alignment.
• Testing and Prompting: Experimenting with various image generation models and tools (such as Nanobanana ChatGpt Image, Qwen, Weavey, and local generative workflows) to test content creation across diverse product categories.
• Building Auditing Rules: Spot-checking a wide range of generated imagery against quality benchmarks to ensure that data source assets perform in model training and generation environments.
• Studio & Portal Collaboration: Working on site with the studio team to understand capture setups and ensuring studio photography is tuned to produce high-fidelity content.
• Feedback Loops: Communicating structured, actionable aesthetic feedback to engineering and technical teams to tune and improve the generative engine.

Requirements

• Aesthetic Sensibility: A strong sense of taste and visual judgement (from a background in graphic design, photography, marketing, or fine arts) to evaluate brand compliance and imagery quality.
• Curiosity for Technology: An eager, open-minded approach toward AI and generative image tools including technical systems for creative production and node-based workflows.
• Interdisciplinary Communication: Ability to translate abstract visual and brand concepts into precise feedback that organizations can action.
• Adaptability & Drive: High energy and comfort with rapidly evolving systems, changing parameters, and pioneering uncharted creative territory.
• In-Person Availability: Ability to work on-site in the office (ideally Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Thursdays) with periodic visits to the studio.

What high performance looks like

• Execution & Output Quality: Consistently identifying aesthetic defects, fine-tuning model inputs, and maintaining high output standards in collaboration with senior leadership.
• System Integration: Successfully building and documenting auditing rules that directly improve the automated generation pipeline.
• Team & Cross-Functional Impact: Functioning cross-functionally as a bridge between creative, studio operations, and engineering.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Taking initiative to test new generative models and content generation workflows as well as testing R&D tools ahead of full rollouts.

Career Growth

• Pioneer Experience: Gain rare, cutting-edge experience at the intersection of AI generation and commercial art direction that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere.
• Mentorship: Work directly under senior creative leadership to hone your visual judgment, prompt engineering, and model-tuning skill set.
• Role Expansion: Opportunity to transition from a part-time initial structure (20 hours/week) into a full-time role as content production scales up.
• Cross-Functional Exposure: Build direct working relationships with engineering, studio management, and cross-departmental teams across Pattern.

First 30, 60, 90 Days

• First 30 Days: Develop complete familiarity with Pattern’s internal content generation processes, branding guidelines, and cross-functional team workflows.
• First 60 Days: Begin independently vetting content output from the engine and reliably identifying the visual feedback standards expected by leadership.
• First 90 Days: Seamlessly communicate precise feedback directly to engineering teams and run point on spot-checking portal data capture systems.

Team

This role reports directly to the Director of AI Content. You will be joining a growing team of creative and technical professionals. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Studio Head, Portal Stylists, Partner Art Directors and Pattern Labs team, as well as other departments including Engineering, Tech, and Marketing. This position is mentored by the Director of AI Content.

Company Culture

• Game Changers: Individuals who look at problems with an open mind, share new ideas, reassess plans, and attach realistic timelines to goals. They make profitable, productive, and innovative contributions and actively pursue improvements.
• Data Fanatics: Those who recognize problems and seek to understand them through data, draw unbiased conclusions, and track the effects of solutions using data.
• Partner Obsessed: Individuals who clearly explain project statuses, rely on constructive feedback, actively listen to partner expectations, and deliver results that exceed them.
• Team of Doers: Those who uplift team members, take initiative, contribute to improvements, and hold themselves accountable to the team and partners.

How to Stand Out

• Strong "Nice-to-Haves":
  • A strong visual portfolio showcasing fine art, photography, graphic design, or commercial advertising work.
  • Prior exposure to node-based workflow tools (such as Weave/Figma Weave) or basic prompting experience with generative tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney).
  • A background or educational training in Graphic Design, Photography, or Commercial Marketing.
• Tips for the Interview:
  • Showcase your portfolio: Be prepared to walk through visual examples demonstrating your eye for detail, composition, and brand consistency.
  • Highlight your AI curiosity: Share concrete examples of how you’ve experimented with or applied AI tools in your projects.
  • Demonstrate interdisciplinary thinking: Highlight your ability to discuss technical concepts comfortably without losing sight of aesthetic quality and user experience.

Benefits

• Accrued PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Onsite Fitness Center
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Casual Dress Code
• Competitive Pay
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• 401(k) match: Pattern matches 100% of the first 3% in eligible compensation deferred and 50% of the next 2% in eligible compensation deferred.

Schedule

This is a part-time position requiring 20 hours per week, ideally on-site in the office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Thursdays with periodic visits to the studio.