Creative Curation Lead

Ideogram is on a mission to make professional-quality design accessible to everyone. We’re building an AI-native application that helps creative individuals and teams produce high-quality content faster and at a lower cost. We are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a growing presence in NYC. Read our Ideogram 3.0 and Canvas blog posts, and try our product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we're building.

About The Role

Curating high quality visual assets is one of the most critical components of developing cutting edge generative image AI models and AI-native applications like Ideogram. As a Creative Curation Lead, you will determine the aesthetic personality of our state of the art image models, shaping the future of AI generated photography and design. You will work closely with the machine learning team and have a crucial role in improving the style and quality of our models. You’ll also engage with the members of our community to reflect their preferences and needs in our training datasets.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the taxonomy and quality standard for visual assets.

• Curate collections of high-quality and diverse assets like photos and graphic designs.

• Collect internal and external feedback on model quality to document areas for improvement.

• Collaborate with the machine learning team to guide model finetuning, prompting strategies, and dataset filtering to achieve desired visual aesthetics.

• Create and manage a visual style guide that can inform training data curation, prompt engineering, and user-facing documentation.

What we’re looking for

• Background in fine arts, photography, graphic design, or media studies.

• Understanding and passion for elements of photography and graphic design such as composition, colors, lighting, typography, and other elements that contribute to appealing visuals.

• Ability to discern and appreciate subtle differences in image quality including resolution, clarity, and colour accuracy.

• Capability to analyze data and make informed decisions about the quality and relevance of visual content.

• Awareness of current trends, best practices, and standards in photography and graphic design.

• Good organizational and documentation skills — can define taxonomies and style guides. 

Nice to Haves

• An existing portfolio demonstrating hands-on experience in graphic design and / or photography.

• Hands on experience with state of the art generative AI image and video models.

Founding Team

Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.

Company Culture

We're a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.

Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.