Junior AI Art Director (Part-Time)

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! 

• 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.

• 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.

• Execution & Output Quality: Consistently identifying aesthetic defects, fine-tuning model inputs, and maintaining high output standards in collaboration with senior leadership.