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GenerativeFilmmaker
Space (sp-ce.co) · Remote · Full-time
TL;DR
- —Space, an AI-native brand agency, is hiring a Generative Filmmaker to direct brand films, launch films, and campaign spots made primarily with generative video, camera optional.
- —The engines render any shot; the human owns story, shot selection, continuity, and the reason the cut lands, which is the part that was always directing.
- —Budget ceilings collapsed: seed-stage clients get the shot that used to need a helicopter, a permit, and a producer's apology.
- —Space doesn't pretend a camera was involved when it wasn't; hybrid shoots are a choice, never a failure.
- —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
Film was the medium funded startups could rarely afford: the crew, the permits, the weather day, the reshoot nobody budgeted. Generative video collapsed the cost of the shot, which means our clients can now have the launch film that used to require a helicopter. What didn't collapse is the reason the film works. The engines can render any shot; they can't tell you why it's the wrong shot for this story, this brand, this half-second of a stranger's attention. They don't know what the audience should feel in second four, why the cut lands better a beat late, or how shot seven stays in the same world as shot six.
That last one is the actual craft now. Continuity, consistency, a world that holds together across a cut: this is where generative film is won, and it's won by people who learned coverage and blocking somewhere real. You'll direct brand films, launch films, and campaign spots end to end, build each brand's cinematic system so every future video inherits it, and decide, shot by shot, what still deserves a camera. Hybrid is a choice here, never a failure. What we don't do is pretend a camera was involved when it wasn't.
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What you'll do
Direct brand films, launch films, and campaign spots end to end: story, boards, shots, edit, grade, ship, in weeks.
Cast the light, the lens, the era, the weather, then reject everything merely beautiful. Beautiful is what the engines do by accident.
Solve continuity, the hard problem: characters, worlds, and light that hold across cuts, because one gorgeous orphan shot is now free.
Build each brand's cinematic system (world rules, palette, pacing, the physics of its universe) so the four-hundredth video still belongs to it.
Call the camera. Some shots should still be shot, and you'll say which, why, and what it costs.
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What you won't do
Wait for weather, permits, or a reshoot budget. The constraint moved from money to judgment, and judgment doesn't have a weather day.
Cut a sizzle of other directors' shots and call it a treatment. If a reference would work for the client's nearest competitor, it stays in the file.
Ship the model's defaults: the floaty drift, the physics that almost work, the faces that are one frame from wrong. We keep a catalog of the tells for video too.
Babysit renders or run a versioning farm. Volume, ratios, and cutdowns are machine work, permanently.
Manage juniors, sit in status meetings, log timesheets, or build spec work for pitches. None of those survive here.
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Who you are
A filmmaker first. Coverage, blocking, continuity, and cut points live in your hands from somewhere real, and the instincts transferred when the camera became optional.
Level 4 or above on our published AI Fluency Ladder, headed for 5: you run the video engines daily and can say precisely where each one lies.
A consistency obsessive. Your worlds hold together for thirty seconds without a seam showing, and you know exactly how much work that sentence hides.
Story-brained. You can explain why the cut lands in a sentence a founder can act on, and the explanation survives the edit.
Calibrated about the tools. When a client asks for the impossible because the impossible got cheap, your no arrives with a reason and an alternative.
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Who you aren't
A prompt roulette player generating until something looks cool. Volume without intent is the new B-roll.
A gear romantic. If the set was the point for you (the crew, the call sheet, the craft table at 5 a.m.), we respect the grief, and we can't build a job around it.
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 work, 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 camera was always a tool. The job was deciding what a stranger feels in each second, and that job didn't move. If your identity is the gear, honestly, no. If it's the frame, yes.
The Motion Designer authors how a brand moves: identity physics, logo behavior, interface motion. You direct narrative film: story, spots, launch films. You'll pair on hero moments constantly, and the seam between you should be invisible.
When the shot demands it, yes. Hybrid is a choice, never a failure. What we don't do is pretend a camera was involved when it wasn't.
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.