Artist - Kaitoi Works

About Kaitoi

Our in-house production studio, Kaitoi Works, is led by Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director Guillermo Navarro, whose work spans Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, Night at the Museum, and long collaborations with filmmakers including Guillermo del Toro and Robert Rodriguez. Kaitoi Works uses Kaitoi to make real work: short films, music videos, visual experiments, brand pieces, marketing assets.

Kaitoi itself is an AI-native orchestration platform for creative professionals. It is built around a conversational moodboard that connects directly to a node graph, a workflow view, a storyboard and a timeline. All interconnected, all live. A project moves from first idea to rough cut inside the platform, then exports cleanly into professional editors for finishing. The assistant is agentic across the whole surface: it collaborates on the work, executes it, guides you through it, and can extend the software itself when you describe what you need.

The studio is both end in itself and the most honest possible product testing: if the platform cannot make beautiful things, we find out first.

The role

You are an artist who can take a brief from idea to delivered piece, and who is excited to work inside evolving, node-based, AI-driven production pipelines. You will be one of the first creative voices in the studio, with real ownership over the work we make and how we make it.

We are open on discipline. Some artists on the team may lean more toward filmmaking and edit, others toward generative pipelines, compositing, motion, or look development. We care more about depth, originality, and taste than fitting a fixed title.

You might come from VFX, CG, motion, live-action filmmaking, generative AI, or some mix that does not fit a category. What matters is craft, curiosity, and the ability to ship.

You will also be a power user of the platform. The friction you hit in your day-to-day directly shapes our product roadmap.

What you will do

• Lead or contribute to studio projects from concept through final delivery
• Build production pipelines inside Kaitoi: shot setup, look development, generative passes, compositing, color, finishing
• Develop a body of work that doubles as proof of what the platform can do
• Collaborate with the product team. Surface what is missing, broken, or slow, and help us fix the right things
• Help define the studio's creative voice and quality bar as we grow

What you bring

• A strong portfolio. We care more about what you have made than where you made it
• Deep craft in at least one creative discipline: VFX compositing, CG, motion, directing, editorial, color, generative AI, or similar
• Working fluency with modern creative tooling: some combination of Nuke / After Effects / Houdini / Blender / DaVinci / Premiere / Unreal, plus generative tools (ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, FLUX, video models, etc.)
• Curiosity about node-based and AI-driven workflows, and the patience to shape new pipelines instead of relying on settled ones
• The ability to take a project from brief to delivery without heavy supervision

Nice to have

• Experience publishing your own work and building an audience around it
• Strong color and finishing chops (log workflows, ACES/OCIO, LUT pipelines)
• Technical-artist tendencies: comfort with Python, scripting, or building your own tools
• Filmmaking instincts (story, performance, edit, sound), not just frames

How we work

• Fully remote, global. Async-first written communication.
• Small team. The work you make ships under the Kaitoi Works brand and contributes directly to the product.
• We protect creative time and keep meetings rare.

How to apply

Send a link to your reel or portfolio and a short note about a piece you are proud of: what the brief was, what your role was, and what you would do differently if you made it again.