Head of AI Workflows / Lead Architect at Wonder Studios
London
$150,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
London
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role leads the development and standardization of AI-assisted filmmaking workflows at an AI-native creative studio. The work involves evaluating emerging generative models, building production-ready techniques and playbooks, collaborating with directors and production teams to identify where AI tools can serve creative goals, and translating proven methods into engineering priorities. It suits someone with a background spanning VFX or post-production and hands-on experience with generative and traditional visual tools.
Senior level · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $112,112 (middle half $73,931–$166,799). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is listed with three possible locations — Los Angeles, New York, and London — on a hybrid basis. The CBSA is set to Los Angeles as the first-named US location; New York (CBSA 35620) is an equally valid primary site, and London makes this a potentially non-US role. The US-based flag is set true because at least two of the three options are US cities.
SOC classification is genuinely ambiguous. The role is primarily about designing and operationalizing AI/generative-media workflows for film production — a creative-technology architect function that sits between 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other, covering AI/ML workflow architects without a clean fit elsewhere) and 15-1252 (Software Developers, given the hands-on prototyping, API integration, and engineering collaboration). 15-1299 is chosen as the primary because the day-to-day work is workflow design, model evaluation, and production playbook development rather than shipping software.
The title 'Head of AI Workflows / Lead Architect' implies a Principal-level framing, but the actual scope — owning one function at a 35-person studio, reporting to the CEO — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor or senior lead, not a true org-wide Principal. Advertised seniority reflects the title; assessed seniority reflects the scope.
The tools list (ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Flux, Runway, Veo, Luma, Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve, Unreal Engine, Nuke, Maya) appears under the 'What You'll Bring' requirements section and is introduced with 'Hands-on knowledge of … platforms such as', which is a substitution qualifier. Each named tool is treated as a hard gate on the underlying capability (generative/VFX tooling), with the 'such as' indicating the specific tools are interchangeable within their category rather than making the requirement optional.
No minimum total years of experience is stated explicitly in the posting.
Kling and ByteDance are mentioned as model partners Wonder works with, not as skills candidates are gated on — omitted from the skills list accordingly. Google and Magnific are similarly partner/vendor context rather than candidate skill requirements.
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