Polar Opposite AI is a same-day AI video production studio founded by NYU Tisch Film & TV alumni. We produce finished branded content for national clients in beauty, real estate, hospitality, and healthcare, combining frontier AI generation tools with real creative direction and professional post-production. Our sister company, Polar Opposite, produces music videos, commercials, and documentaries.
THE ROLE
A creative technologist is the person who looks at a new tool and asks what it’s actually for, then builds the thing that makes it useful to everyone else.
This role sits between the craft and the machinery. Half of it is making work: shots, sequences, experiments, things nobody has tried yet. The other half is turning what works into a system: a template, a preset, a pipeline, a repeatable process that lets the next project start at hour six instead of hour zero.
We’re not looking for someone who only wants to prompt, and we’re not looking for a pure engineer. We’re looking for a creative who is excited about experimenting with and using emerging technologies.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Prototype with frontier tools (Seedance, Veo, Runway, Kling, Higgsfield, Firefly, ElevenLabs) and figure out what each one is actually good at before we bet a client project on it
- Build the systems that come out of that: prompt libraries, continuity templates, look presets, project structures, naming conventions, checklists that survive contact with a deadline
- Combine generative output with traditional craft (practical footage, film scans, compositing, motion graphics, sound) because the interesting work almost never comes from one source
- Automate the boring parts: batch processing, asset organization, deck and deliverable generation, anything currently done by hand twice
- Document what you build so it outlives your term here
- Bring ideas to client briefs, the “what if we tried” that turns a standard spot into something people forward
- Work on real deliverables with real deadlines, reviewed and mentored directly by our AI Content lead
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- How to evaluate a new tool quickly and honestly, past the demo reel
- Prompt craft, continuity, and shot design, closer to directing than typing
- How generative output gets integrated with conventional post instead of replacing it
- Systems thinking applied to creative work: templating, versioning, and repeatability
- Enough scripting and automation to build your own tools, whatever you do next
- The operational reality of a small studio, where every process you improve is immediately visible
WHO YOU ARE
- NYU Tisch Film & TV student, or comparable program, able to receive academic credit
- Make things constantly: films, edits, music, apps, zines, weird side projects. We want to see them
- Comfortable in Premiere or equivalent; After Effects, Photoshop, or 3D a plus
- Some technical curiosity: Python, JavaScript, Git, n8n, automations, spreadsheets held together with formulas. Any of it counts, none of it required. If you only vibe code, that’s genuinely fine
- Hands-on with at least one AI generation tool, and opinionated about it
- Self-directed. Nobody will tell you which problem to solve next; you’ll notice one and fix it
- A real point of view about where this technology should go, not just that it exists
WHAT YOU GET
- Company accounts on every tool the role requires, at our cost
- Free personal access to our AI generation subscriptions and credits for your own projects
- Free passes to the Madison Film Festival, plus a fee-waived submission of your own film
- Letters of recommendation and introductions across our network in advertising, hospitality, music, and film
- First consideration for paid freelance work after the term
DETAILS
- Unpaid, for academic credit
- Remote, 15–20 hours/week, rolling applications
- Apply with a resume and a link to creative work if you have it. Also send a link to something you built or automated: a tool, a template, a system, code, a workflow, a piece of work that shows how you use technology creatively. That last part matters more than the resume.