Creative Specialist, AI Workflows

Foundry's Creative Services team helps studios get the most out of our portfolio and, increasingly, helps them bring AI and agentic workflows into real production pipelines. This is a pipeline generalist role with a heavy focus on AI. You'll be the technical pipeline expert who consults with VFX and animation studios to support integration of Foundry Griptape and AI workflows (both pipeline and artist facing) into their infrastructure. The role supports pre-sales evaluations, and acts as the voice of the customer back into the business. This role sits within the Pipeline team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Creative Services (Pipeline).

• Provide in-depth consultation and education to current and prospective VFX and animation studios evaluating Foundry's AI solutions, including Griptape.
• Act as a technical pipeline expert across Foundry's product portfolio with deep fluency in integrating AI and agentic workflows into production.
• Design and build reproducible pipeline-integration demos that connect Foundry products and AI workflows to studio infrastructure, including asset management, render submission, versioned workflows and more.
• Serve as the technical point person for Griptape evaluations across strategic and enterprise accounts; partner closely with Sales to structure time-bound evaluations, define technical milestones, and support technical progression until purchase.
• Be a strong internal advocate for customers  ensuring feedback flows between sales, support and product engineering, and accurately reporting issues and proposing practical fixes.
• Provide technical data and customer feedback to Foundry's product development teams; be a voice for customers internally and disseminate information back to them externally.
• Deliver technical presentations and software demos at trade shows, events and customer site visits translating between the most technical experts and a general audience.
• Create technical customer enablement content (video tutorials, written guides, and templates) to streamline self-managed evaluations for customers.
• Travel to customer locations to represent Foundry onsite and support sales goals.

THE ESSENTIALS.

• High-end production experience in a studio environment (film, episodic or games).
• Broad pipeline-integration expertise: asset management systems, render farm submission, versioned workflows, cross-application data flow.
• Advanced Python skills (some JavaScript a plus).
• Strong skills with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Working fluency with AI / agentic workflow tools and how they slot into a production pipeline (Griptape, node-based AI tools, generative models).
• Comfortable and credible in customer-facing settings: sales calls, technical evaluations, studio consultations, conference stages.
• A genuine translator, able to liaise with the most technical engineers and explain it to a general audience.

THE NICE TO HAVE, KEEN TO LEARN.

• Hands-on experience with generative AI models, local model installation and quantization.
• Familiarity with Griptape architecture (SDK, Nodes, Cloud).
• Content-creation skills (video, written guides).
• Understanding of the competitive AI workflow landscape (e.g. ComfyUI and studio AI tooling).
• Cross-portfolio exposure across multiple DCCs and pipeline tools.

Foundry has a 30-year heritage in developing creative software for the Media and Entertainment industry. Its portfolio of award-winning products solves complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality. 
Working with creative leaders around the globe, Foundry products are used to create breathtaking visual effects and animation and have been integral in the making of every VFX Academy Award-winning film since 2007.
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