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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

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.

We are looking for individuals who are:

• Game Changers: A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.

• Data Fanatics: A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.

• Partner Obsessed: An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.

• Team of Doers: Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.

1. Video interview with Talent Acquisition

2. Video Interview with Hiring Manager 

3. On-Site Interview 

4. Video Interview with Department Leader

5. Professional reference checks

6. Executive review

7. Offer

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 to Stand Out During the Interview:

• Showcase your portfolio: Be prepared to walk through visual examples that demonstrate your eye for detail, composition, and brand consistency. Demonstrated system design is a plus.

• Highlight your AI curiosity: Share concrete examples of how you’ve experimented with or applied AI tools in your personal, academic, or professional projects.

• Demonstrate interdisciplinary thinking: Highlight your ability to discuss technical concepts comfortably without losing sight of aesthetic quality and user experience.

 

Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry! We are a company full of talented people that evolves quickly and often. We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community. We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives, so we offer awesome benefits that include:

 

- 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. 

 

Pattern provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.