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About Luma

Luma is dedicated to building unified general intelligence capable of generating, understanding, and operating within the physical world. The company emphasizes multimodality as critical for intelligence, particularly focusing on vision to advance beyond language models. Luma is engaged in training and scaling multimodal foundation models to develop systems that can perceive, comprehend, demonstrate, explain, and ultimately interact with the world to facilitate change.

The Role of Forward Deployed Creative

This full-time position for a Forward Deployed Creative is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves defining a new category at the intersection of creativity, sales, and education. As a foundational member, the Forward Deployed Creative will integrate Luma's technology as a core tool for leading creators, pioneering new workflows that will shape the future of AI-powered storytelling. This is an opportunity to build a new function from its inception, requiring 5-10 years of relevant professional experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with leading brands and creative agencies, serving as a creative and strategic guide for generative AI.
• Design and prototype novel, AI-accelerated production workflows to enhance partner storytelling capabilities.
• Create hands-on, high-craft content using Dream Machine, establishing benchmarks and producing inspirational case studies.
• Consult with partner leadership, translating complex technical capabilities into tangible creative and business opportunities.
• Collaborate internally as an extension of the Product, Partnership, and Sales teams, providing real-world insights to inform roadmap development.
• Establish the foundation for the Forward Deployed Creative function by setting the tone and creating playbooks for partner engagement.
• Educate and inspire the creative community, acting as a key evangelist for Luma and the new medium of generative video.

Required Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in roles such as Creative Technologist, Technical Director, or a similar client-facing, senior creative position at a top-tier agency, studio, or tech company.
• An outstanding portfolio of delivered, high-craft creative work demonstrating exceptional taste, technical skill, or storytelling ability.
• A proven ability to create new initiatives from scratch in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Deep expertise in creative production pipelines (VFX, animation, motion graphics, or production) and the ability to design and implement new workflows.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to act as a strategic consultant to senior creative and business leaders.
• A genuine passion for the creative potential of AI and Luma's mission to expand human imagination.

Desired Attributes

• Hands-on experience with generative AI creative tools (*, Midjourney, Runway, Pika, Stable Diffusion).
• A public profile as a thought leader or creator in the emerging tech or generative art space.
• Experience at an innovative creative agency (*, Buck, The Mill) or an in-house tech/brand lab (*, Google Creative Lab, Apple Marcom).

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.