Genies is an avatar technology company powering the next era of interactive digital identity through AI companions. With the Avatar Framework and intuitive creation tools, Genies enables developers, talent, and creators to generate and deploy game-ready AI companions. The company’s technology stack supports full customization, AI-generated fashion and props, and seamless integration of user-generated content (UGC). Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA, Genies’ mission is to become the visual and interactive layer for the LLM-powered internet.
We’re looking for a driven, product-minded intern to join our Partnerships team and help shape the next generation of AI companions for celebrities and IP characters. You’ll support the creation, training, and production of these AI companions by researching partner insights and references, testing conversations and behaviors, and refining processes to ensure smooth production and continually improve the end-user experience. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, curious, and resourceful—someone who naturally spots gaps and takes initiative to close them. If you have an interest in AI, gaming, entertainment and product design, this role is for you.
This is a full-time internship (part-time possible) based in Los Angeles, with potential to evolve into a full-time role.
Starting Salary: $25/hour
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Conduct talent and IP-specific research to inform companion’s look, brain and behavior
- Create, test and evaluate companions for conversation quality, personality alignment, and fan engagement
- Track production schedules across avatar 3D generation and companion development
- Evaluate companions to flag issues and propose enhancements that improve the partner and user experience
- Research competitor approaches and cultural trends in AI, gaming and fan interaction
- Help streamline production systems and workflows for scale
- Document findings and keep production records organized
- Use AI tools to speed up workflows and improve efficiency
What You Should Have:
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor's program or recently graduated
- Strong attention to detail and a critical eye for testing
- Go-getter who shares ideas and is a solution-oriented problem solver
- Interest in AI, product design, entertainment, and gaming culture
- Excellent communication skills; able to clearly articulate feedback and insights
- Bonus: experience with prompt engineering or basic Unity
Top Skills
What We Do
Genies is the world’s largest avatar technology company, bringing the power of NFTs and crypto to culture through its mission to own the “virtual being identity layer.” The company has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars as virtual beings in society through its consumer-first future vision coined “Decentralized Disney of the metaverse.”
Genies provides consumers and celebrities with the tools to create high-quality avatars, enabling anyone to own their digital identity and express themselves across metaverses. The technology features an avatar wearables/skins marketplace built with Dapper Labs, API integrations, and a consumer app.
Investors include Bond (Mary Meeker), NEA (Rick Yang), Breyer Capital, CAA, and Tull Investment Group.
The company has 99% celebrity avatar market share through its partnerships with Universal Music, Warner Music Group, NFLPA, MLBPI, NBPA, and individually with thousands of celebrities like Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Migos, Cardi B, and J Balvin.
