Senior Director - Mixmaster

Role Summary

A Visual Mixmaster is responsible for visual storytelling excitement, coherence, timing, pacing, and scene flow in innovative content developed leveraging an state-of-the-art AI-driven platform. This role reimagines the job of Editor for an AI-augmented world and requires film editing, VFX, motion graphics, and colorist skills to deliver compelling final picture edits for GenAI contemporary short form content (Microdramas, Web Series, Creator Content, etc.) that meets quality standards as per JioStar guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

Craft the final video: Use standard nonlinear editing tools, colorist tools, and AI tools to retime, rearrange, and visually polish short form content on a daily basis, leveraging an understanding of the visual storytelling language of contemporary short-form content and the possibilities of AI-augmented workflows.

AI innovation: Work with technical teams to help bring more AI capabilities into the editorial and scene finaling workflow by helping develop policies, guardrails, creation prompts, validation prompts, and agentic architectures that become force multipliers for the entire team.

Prompt engineering: Develop and refine specific prompts for AI shot editing.

Familiarity with filmmaking or animation: Understand traditional foundations, principles and procedures of producing filmed entertainment, especially serialized short form content.

Edit and refine AI-generated content: Conduct human review and editing of AI drafts to enhance quality, resulting in a compelling visual narrative for the audience.

Collaboration: Work closely with the AI Media Developers to ensure shots being generated are coherent, consistent, and result in a compelling visual narrative.

Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, platforms, and complex processes. Keep up-to-date with advancements in editorial AI creative tools.

Requirements

Experience in film, TV, or digital video editing, with a portfolio showcasing your skills.

Proficiency in using nonlinear editing, motion graphics, VFX, and color timing tools

Dialog and sound editing and mixing proficiency a plus

Generative AI content creation experience a plus

Understanding of content production principles and workflows

Excellent attention to detail and creativity

Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

Strong communication skills and openness to feedback