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CreativeTechnologist
Space (sp-ce.co) · Remote · Full-time
TL;DR
- —Space, an AI-native brand agency, is hiring a Creative Technologist to run the experiments that become the company's tools, agents, and Labs products.
- —Every system Space runs (127 agents, 362 workflows, 14 tools) started as somebody's prototype; this role owns the pipeline from "what if" to shipped.
- —Prototypes either ship or teach: nothing gets built to impress a room, and the experiment graveyard is kept on the record, proudly.
- —New models get wired into real workflows within days of release, which makes this the seat where the frontier meets client work first.
- —Applying is three questions in a short form: one piece you shipped and now hate, the best idea you ever cut, and one thing in culture that makes you jealous.
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About Space
Space is an AI-native brand agency. Three always-on leaders, 82 on-demand specialists, zero juniors. 127 agents, 362 agentic workflows, 14 tools we built ourselves. We ship brand identities, websites, campaigns, and products for funded companies in weeks: Validere got strategy, a full rebrand, and a new site in 8 weeks, lifted inbound 31%, and closed a $43M Series B on the story. We grow entirely by word of mouth, and we publish our AI rules, our hiring bar, and our pricing logic at sp-ce.co/notes, because an agency that won't tell you where AI stops is telling you it doesn't know.
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The job
Most creative technologists spend their careers as the person who makes the QR code work, building demos that die in decks after the applause. Here the pipeline runs the other way: Space Labs exists to turn experiments into infrastructure, and the receipts are the company itself. Every system we run started as somebody's unreasonable Tuesday experiment, including the agents, including the product we now sell. The 14 tools were prototypes once. Beacon, the AEO product, was an experiment that refused to stay one. The rule that makes it work is simple: prototypes either ship or teach. Nothing gets built to impress a room.
You'll live at the moving edge: wiring new models into real workflows within days of release, building the tools the team asks for and the ones nobody knew to ask for, prototyping client-facing experiences the deck-bound shops would call impossible on the timeline. The frontier improves monthly on someone else's research budget; your job is being the first person here to find out what that means on a Tuesday.
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What you'll do
Prototype weekly: tools, agents, interactions, client experiences, whatever the "what if" demands.
Graduate the winners. The path from experiment to Labs product to company infrastructure runs through you, with the standard rising at each gate.
Wire new models into real workflows within days of release, and write down honestly what they change and what they only appear to change.
Build for the team: the tool a strategist asked for on Monday exists by Thursday, and the one nobody asked for occasionally changes how the company works.
Keep the graveyard on the record: every retired experiment, with the lesson, because a prototype that taught something ended successfully.
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What you won't do
Build demos that exist to impress a room. If it can't ship and can't teach, it doesn't get made.
Be the QR code person. You're upstream of the brief here, never bolted onto the end of one.
Wait for permission. Relentlessly resourceful is one of our first principles, and this seat is its natural habitat.
Manage juniors. There are none. Nobody learns the craft on a client's budget here.
Sit in status meetings, log timesheets, or build spec work for pitches. The machines and the model retired all three, and you'll maintain the machines that did it.
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Who you are
A builder whose Sunday projects keep becoming Monday's infrastructure, with the repos and the stories to prove it.
Level 4 or above on our published AI Fluency Ladder, headed for 5 fast, because this seat is where the ladder's next rung gets built.
Fluent across the stack: comfortable enough in code to ship alone, literate enough in brand and design that what you ship has taste.
A finisher of experiments. Curiosity starts prototypes; you're the rarer kind who lands or retires them, on the record.
Honest about magic. You can tell a genuine capability jump from an impressive demo, and you've called both correctly in public.
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Who you aren't
A demo artist collecting applause. Impressive and load-bearing are different careers, and this seat only pays for the second.
A tinkerer without verdicts. Endless exploration with no ship-or-stop call is a hobby, and we'd be an expensive place to have one.
Level 2 on the ladder: someone who ships whatever the model returns. That's worse than not using AI at all, and we said so in print.
Anonymous. Your name goes on the experiments, living and retired, and we treat that as the perk it is.
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How to apply
No cover letter. No 90-page portfolio PDF. No resume upload, even. The application is three questions:
One piece of work you shipped and now hate, with the reason. Two hundred words max.
The best idea you ever cut, and why it was right to cut it.
One thing in culture right now that makes you jealous.
Use AI to answer if you like; we do. We'll be able to tell whether you reviewed it.
Comeargue.
Yes, this job description was drafted with AI. A named human rewrote it, cut a third of it, and will defend every line on a call. That's the entire model, and it's hiring.
Frequently asked questions
The part of the company where experiments become products. Beacon, our AEO platform, came out of it. So did tools the team now can't imagine working without. You'd be its engine.
They deploy proven systems into client companies and stay until adoption. You build the unproven things that eventually earn deployment. They face outward; you face the frontier.
Both, unapologetically. The role is real and open; the posting argues the model, because the model is the job.
Because the seat is sized to the person in it. You'll hear a real range in the first conversation, before you've invested anything beyond the three answers.
A named human reads all three answers. If they're real, we call you.