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Someone who sees frontier AI as an entirely new creative medium and wants to explore its full potential.\nYour work will become a public expression of what's possible at the frontier of creative AI.\nExamples of the work you'll build\nContra Labs\n\nCreative Intelligence Report 2026\n\nWhat you'll own\nCreative vision: Define and execute the creative direction for Contra Labs, establishing an exceptionally high bar for originality, aesthetics, and craft.\n\nOne-of-one experiences: Conceptualize, design, and ship ambitious websites, interactive reports, creative experiments, and digital experiences that stand apart from conventional work.\n\nFrontier AI experimentation: Continuously explore the latest generative models across image, video, code, motion, and 3D, discovering new capabilities and creative possibilities.\n\nAI-native production: Invent and refine workflows that combine frontier AI models with traditional creative tools to achieve exceptional results.\n\nCreative storytelling: Transform complex research, benchmarks, and technical breakthroughs into compelling, visually extraordinary experiences.\n\nHands-on execution: Work directly in design, code, and generative tools to rapidly prototype, iterate, and bring ambitious creative concepts to life.\n\nCreative collaboration: Work with world-class designers, creative technologists, researchers, and engineers to execute projects that push beyond the limits of any single discipline.\n\nEmerging creative formats: Challenge existing conventions and pioneer new ways to communicate, interact, and create with AI.\n\nAbout you\nYou have exceptional creative taste and a distinctive point of view. Your work is original, visually sophisticated, and immediately recognizable.\n\nYou're obsessed with frontier AI and spend your time experimenting with emerging models, tools, and techniques.\n\nYou see AI as a new creative medium with possibilities that are still largely unexplored.\n\nYou're a multidisciplinary creative who can move fluidly between visual design, art direction, interaction, motion, and emerging technologies.\n\nYou're a maker. You love the process of building, experimenting, refining, and shipping exceptional work.\n\nYou have ambitious creative instincts and the technical curiosity to figure out how to execute ideas that initially seem impossible.\n\nYou understand the fundamentals of great design and know when and how to break conventions.\n\nYou move quickly, embrace experimentation, and continually push your own creative standards.\n\nYou're deeply curious about the future of creative work and motivated to help shape it.\n\nExperience\n5+ years in creative direction, art direction, digital design, or creative technology.\n\nAn exceptional portfolio of original, visually ambitious work across digital experiences, brands, or experimental creative projects.\n\nDemonstrated experience using generative AI to produce sophisticated, original creative work.\n\nStrong command of visual design, typography, composition, interaction design, and digital aesthetics.\n\nExperience taking ambitious creative concepts from initial exploration to polished execution.\n\nProficiency with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and emerging AI-native creative platforms.\n\nStrong creative communication and collaboration skills.\n\nBonus\nExperience building immersive websites, interactive experiences, or experimental digital products.\n\nCreative coding experience with tools and frameworks such as React, Three.js, WebGL, or similar technologies.\n\nExperience with generative video, motion design, 3D, or procedural visuals.\n\nExperience combining multiple AI models into novel creative workflows.\n\nRecognition for exceptional creative work, experimental projects, or digital experiences.\n\nExperience working at an AI company, creative technology studio, or design-led startup.\n\nRequirements\nBased in NYC\n\nTotal comp\nSalary: $180,000-$250,000 USD plus equity\n\nMedical, dental, vision\n\n401k matching\n\nCompany laptop on your start date\n\nInterview process\nRecruiting team (20 minutes)\n\nCEO and co-founder (30 minutes)\n\nHead of Contra Labs (30 minutes)\n\nPaid case study and presentation (60 minutes)\n\nNote: Contra communicates with applicants through @contra.com domains only. 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