Sr. AI Video Technical Artist

WHO WE ARE:
Headquartered in Southern California Skechersthe Comfort Technology Companyhas spent over 30 years helping men women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do driving the development of stylish high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Senior AI Video Technical Artist is a hands-on production role owning AI shot execution reusable video workflows technical QA product-fidelity validation and production-ready handoff across Skechers product social advertising and e-commerce channels.

Ownership boundaries: the Creative Technology Team lead owns platform architecture approved infrastructure and technical acceptance; the Technical Product Manager owns portfolio priority approvals rollout coordination and outcome metrics; creative teams own briefs creative direction final finish and publishing; Legal Privacy and Security define applicable rights and disclosure controls which this role implements.

All work follows Skechers content standards. Approved product imagery and geometry are authoritative: workflows must not invent or materially alter product silhouette construction materials color logos or text and where generative processing cannot preserve these within approved tolerances the product is isolated and recomposited from approved source assets. Likeness work follows consented contract-covered processes.

The role operates a governed production lane opening to selective self-service for creative teams as workflows are approved against a defined cross-channel production backlog approved inference capabilities and a clear path from successful pilots to sustained production.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Execute AI video production: design run and refine workflows (image-to-video motion enhancement upscaling and compositing) on approved enterprise-managed inference environments.
• Transform approved product photography and creative assets into dynamic motion content while preserving product fidelity; isolate and recomposite product elements from approved source assets wherever generative processing cannot hold tolerance.
• Produce and curate motion assets at volume through the governed production lane with human-in-the-loop quality and brand review; creative teams own final finish.
• Build reusable motion templates style frameworks character and identity systems and structured prompt systems that maintain brand and character consistency and scale across the pipeline.
• Maintain versioned reproducible workflows: pinned model and custom-node dependencies recorded job settings and provenance for every deliverable.
• Define and apply quality and evaluation criteria for generated motion including temporal consistency artifacts color and banding product fidelity (silhouette materials logo integrity geometry drift warping flicker) character and identity consistency across shots and variants brand adherence and how legibly synthetic the output reads to target audiences; contribute to the evaluation sets and QA gates that allow workflows to be approved and operated as systems.
• Deliver campaign-ready assets to spec: formats codecs alpha handling aspect-ratio variants safe areas captions color management and versioned handoff.
• Provide video-specific training and documentation for creative teams with rollout and ongoing support coordinated by the Technical Product Manager.
• Work against defined production metrics: approved assets shipped cycle time first-pass QA rate re-render rate template reuse and unit cost.
• Monitor emerging video generation models and techniques and evaluate their fit within Skechers existing AI ecosystem.
• Other duties as assigned.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required.

• 5 years of experience in video production motion design VFX or creative technology with substantial recent hands-on generative video work.
• Demonstrated portfolio of commercial AI-assisted video or motion work; portfolio review and a practical exercise are part of the interview process.
• Deep hands-on fluency with node-based generative pipelines (e.g. ComfyUI) including image-to-video workflows that leverage existing photography and creative assets.
• Demonstrated character and product consistency across shots scenes and campaign variants using identity- and reference-conditioned workflows (e.g. IPAdapter PuLID InstantID or equivalent) and continuity-preserving generation techniques; consistency work must be evident in the portfolio.
• Professional working proficiency in at least one compositing and finishing environment (After Effects Nuke or Resolve/Fusion) including masking rotoscoping tracking cleanup and matte integrity.
• Delivery craft: frame rates codecs alpha handling aspect-ratio variants safe areas captions and color-space and gamut management.
• Working Python and Linux comfort sufficient to automate batch and operate pipelines with awareness of queues retries logging VRAM constraints and failure recovery.
• Ability to design structured reusable prompt systems that scale across a pipeline rather than one-off prompts.
• Preferred: adapter fine-tuning such as LoRA for character style or product consistency; evaluation-set construction; agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code); experience with DAM/MAM asset workflows.
• Experience producing for social digital advertising and/or e-commerce channels with a strong eye for motion and brand consistency; footwear fashion apparel or retail experience is a plus.
• Strong communication skills; able to collaborate effectively with creative marketing and technology teams in a fast-moving environment.

The pay range for this position is $100000-$120000/yr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers a global Fortune 500 company developsand markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear apparel and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores e-commerce and digital stores and through our more than 5300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe inclusive and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race color religion gender gender identification and expression national origin marital status age disability genetic information military status sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic established by local state or federal law.

Reasonable Accommodation
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To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities who are otherwise qualified for the job position to perform the essential functions.