Director of Generative AI R&D

Company: Plotsy

Location: Remote (Must reside in Texas)

Plotsy is looking for a Director of Generative AIR&D Lead to pilot our rapidly evolving generative AI technology stack. Your primary mandate is to research, test, and recommend—with strict, numbers-driven evidence—which generative video, image, and audio tools Plotsy should adopt, pilot, hold, or reject. You will bridge the gap between technical infrastructure and creative execution, proving what tools are viable, what they cost, and how to train our production teams to use them.

• 35% Research & Limit Testing: Hands-on benchmarking, scanning the horizon for new tools, and pushing models to their breaking points.
• 25% Analysis & Executive Strategy: Building cost models, checking commercial licenses, and writing "Adopt/Reject" recommendations for the CTO and CPO.
• 20% Training & Creative Enablement: Upskilling directors, writing prompt rulesets, and troubleshooting pipeline bottlenecks with the creative team.
• 20% Pipeline Integration: Collaborating with AI engineers to deploy APIs, configure machines, and run controlled production pilots.

• Track & Filter: Monitor real-time releases in generative video, audio, and image models to instantly identify what matters to Plotsy.
• Rigorous Benchmarking: Run head-to-head, reproducible tests using real internal assets (testing character consistency and motion stability) instead of trusting vendor demos.
• Financial Modeling:
  Quantify the exact impact of new tools on generation spend, production targets, and overall cost-per-finished-minute.
• Risk Auditing: Review terms of service to ensure every tool meets strict commercial-use rights, data safety, and ownership standards.
• Deploy & Safeguard: Partner with engineering to roll out approved tools into the active pipeline, setting up clear fallback plans if a tool fails under stress.
• Hands-on Upskilling: Conduct live training sessions, write operating guidelines for the production playbook, and act as the escalation point when a director hits a technical wall.

• Deep Generative Fluency: Advanced hands-on mastery of AI image, video, and audio generation platforms (conditioning, seed management, control methods).
• Production & Creative Literacy: A foundational understanding of how content gets made (shots, coverage, continuity, editorial) to test tools against real-world creative demands.
• Quantitative Mastery: Comfort building defensible cost and throughput models for executives who make high-stakes budget decisions.
• Technical Depth: Practical scripting or automation abilities, comfort working with APIs, and systems understanding to collaborate with engineering.
• Licensing Judgment: The ability to dissect complex terms of service and flag commercial, data privacy, or intellectual property risks.
• Translation
  
  Skills:
  
  The unique ability to compress three weeks of dense technical benchmarks into a clear, one-page executive memo, and turn right around to teach that exact technology to a creative director.

If you believe book adaptations should be cinematic masterpieces and you have the technical grit, generative fluency, and problem-solving skills to make it happen, Plotsy is your next home.