The AI Creative + Automation Associate will build AI-powered production systems for scalable content creation, collaborating on strategy and optimizing workflows.
Vocal Media is seeking an AI Creative + Automation Associate to help turn creative ideas into scalable, automated content workflows. In this role, you’ll build and improve AI-powered production systems that support high-quality, high-volume, short-form content across platforms. This is a full-time position through November 2026, with the opportunity for extension.
Responsibilities
- Translate creative strategy into repeatable, scalable systems for AI-powered content production.
- Collaborate with creative, innovation, and social teams to ensure automated outputs align with brand voice, cultural relevance, and platform-native storytelling.
- Identify opportunities to streamline ideation, production, and publishing through automation.
- Use performance data and audience insights to continuously refine creative systems and content workflows.
- Build and maintain automated workflows for short-form content creation using AI tools (Runway, Higgsfield, Veo, ChatGPT, Sora, etc.).
- Design modular creative frameworks (templates, prompts, pipelines) that enable rapid, high-volume content production.
- Integrate AI tools with automation platforms to reduce manual effort across creative operations.
- Stay current on emerging AI and automation capabilities, testing and implementing new tools to improve efficiency and creative output.
- Support the AI Creative team by documenting workflows, best practices, and system logic for scalable use.
- Train and support team members on automated creative pipelines and AI-assisted production methods.
- Partner with the Director of AI Creative Strategy + Senior Director of Innovation to prototype new automated creative formats and production systems.
- Act as a bridge between creative vision and technical execution, ensuring tools actually work in practice.
- Help manage AI Studio operations, including tracking creative workflows, automation performance, and production timelines.
- Maintain and optimize systems for creative requests, deliverables, approvals, and handoffs.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to integrate automation tools into existing processes.
- Assist with onboarding and training AI Social Media Managers on AI workflows, automation tools, and production systems.
Creative Strategy & Systems Thinking AI & Automation-Driven Production Creative Operations & Enablement
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience in content creation, creative production, digital operations, or automation-focused roles.
- Basic proficiency with APIs, prompt engineering, or no-code tooling is a plus.
- Strong understanding of short-form, social-first content (TikTok, IG Reels, YouTube Shorts).
- Hands-on experience using AI creative tools for image, video, or copy generation.
- Experience building or maintaining automated workflows (Zapier, Make, scripts, internal tools, or equivalent).
- Strong organizational and systems-thinking skills.
- Familiarity with content analytics, performance tracking, and optimization loops.
- Ability to balance creative intuition with operational efficiency.
- Clear communication skills and comfort documenting processes and workflows.
- Deep awareness of internet culture, trends, and platform behavior.
Benefits
- Health insurance covered at 90% for full time employees; Dental and Vision available
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 401(k) plan & company contribution
Vocal Media is committed to developing leaders, policies, and a team culture that embraces diversity and enhances equity. We believe that differences in backgrounds, experiences, and identities lead to healthier organizations and stronger teams. We recognize that our success requires commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the highest quality services to our clients and creators. Vocal is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity, or disability, or any other legally protected basis. Vocal is committed to providing accommodations to individuals with disabilities in the hiring process and on the job, as required by applicable law. Vocal will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.
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