Join the VVP Group team:

• In the Forbes Best Employers Ranking — 2024 and 2025 in the "gold" group,*
• TOP-30** for 2025 in the HeadHunter Employer Ranking,
• I*** Group of the RBC 2025 Employer Ranking,
• TOP-10*** among the largest distribution companies in Russia,
• 30+ years of experience,
• 1000+ active and motivated employees,
• Average employee tenure — over 5 years,
• Official employment,
• Career growth and training,
• Discounts on company products for employees.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the formation of a new AI-native process for producing short animated films.
• Define the visual language of the project: style of characters and world, composition, palette, motion characteristics, lighting, and level of detail.
• Combine the functions of director, art director, and hands-on creative producer in the production of the first videos.
• Go through the entire process from idea and script to the finished animated film: storyboard, animatic, keyframes, shot setup, video generation, sound, editing, and final check.
• Translate the script into a clear visual plan: scenes, shots, character actions, emotions, camera movement, and shot duration.
• Achieve visual and emotional consistency of characters between different scenes and releases.
• Create references, visual rules, style guides, and Character Production Packs for neural networks.
• Define mandatory character attributes, acceptable variations, and unacceptable visual drift.
• Test modern generative models for images, video, voice, music, and sounds.
• Compare tools and providers based on quality, reproducibility, speed, and cost of the accepted result.
• Determine which scenes, movements, and interactions models can already create stably, and where it's necessary to simplify the setup or change the production approach.
• Create short animated films lasting 60–90 seconds for the first target market.
• Select generations, provide clear feedback, and make final creative decisions.
• Record the causes of defects: changes in face or silhouette, loss of accessories, incorrect clothing, problems with anatomy, movement, lighting, style, and continuity.
• Turn recurring errors into rules, templates, checklists, and automated checks.
• Calculate production economics: number of generations, percentage of accepted results, number of attempts, cost of a usable shot, and finished video.
• Together with technical specialists, transfer the developed production process to Story OS and Character Bible Studio.
• Formulate requirements for new product features based on actual content production.
• Use Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, and other AI tools to create simple prototypes, interfaces, and automations.
• Work directly with the founder, universe author, children's editor, and technical team.
• Help shape a production standard where humans are responsible for concept, taste, and final decisions, while the system handles the main routine.

Requirements

• Practical experience in animation, video production, motion design, CG, VFX, post-production, or visual content creation.
• Understanding of the full video production cycle: from script and visual concept to editing, sound, and final publication.
• Portfolio with real video works, animations, commercials, series, game cinematics, digital content, or AI videos.
• Strong visual thinking and the ability to maintain a consistent artistic language for the project.
• Understanding of composition, visual storytelling, editing, rhythm, character emotions, and scene staging.
• Ability to assess not only the beauty of an individual frame but also the suitability of the material for a coherent video.
• Practical experience using generative models for images or video.
• Ability to obtain multiple related scenes with the same character and in a consistent style.
• Capacity to understand the reason for an unsuccessful result and adjust references, staging, prompt, model, or shot structure.
• Willingness to independently go through multiple production stages, not just manage contractors.
• Active use of AI tools in your own work.
• Interest in creating your own tools, automations, and new production workflows.
• Basic understanding of what API, JSON, and automated processes are. Professional developer skills are not required.
• Ability to systematize creative work and turn recurring actions into a clear process.
• Willingness to experiment extensively, compare approaches, and honestly document unsuccessful results.
• Ability to work in conditions of high uncertainty and rapidly changing technologies.
• Focus on the finished animated film and reproducible process, not just on spectacular individual AI clips.

Will be an advantage

• Experience as an art director, animation director, video director, editing director, animation supervisor, motion director, lead motion designer, CG generalist, technical artist, creative producer, or AI content producer.
• Experience in defining a project's visual style or overseeing its adherence by the team.
• Experience with character animation, character design, storyboarding, animatics, layout, or cinematic production.
• Experience in a small studio or production house where you had to independently go through multiple production stages.
• Experience creating children's animation, series, game trailers, commercials, YouTube content, or short narrative formats.
• Practical experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, Windsurf, Lovable, or other AI coding tools.
• Experience with vibe coding and independently created prototypes, applications, or internal tools.
• Experience creating automations, bots, generation pipelines, or interfaces for your own work.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js at a level sufficient to modify and run small projects.
• Experience with n8n, Make, Zapier, webhooks, and API integrations.
• Experience with ComfyUI, Flux, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Runway, Kling, Veo, Sora, Pika, Luma, or similar tools.
• Understanding of ControlNet, IP-Adapter, LoRA, reference-driven generation, image-to-video, inpainting, and consistency workflows.
• Experience with ElevenLabs and other voice generation and processing systems.
• Experience with Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, Houdini, or Nuke.
• Personal pet projects, Telegram bots, web applications, AI tools, or automated production workflows.
• Interest in child psychology, upbringing, education, cultural adaptation, and meaningful children's content.
• Understanding of video production economics and the ability to calculate the cost of an accepted result.

What needs to be done at the first stage

• Define a practical production recipe for the first short animated films.
• Choose one visual style, one video format, and one target market.
• Prepare two to three characters for reproducible generation through Character Bible Studio.
• Formulate visual rules for characters: silhouette, face, proportions, clothing, permanent accessories, and acceptable variations.
• Define the minimum set of references required to maintain character appearance.
• Compare several image and video generation models on the same set of test scenes.
• Set up a keyframe-first and image-to-video process.
• Define a limited set of shots, actions, and camera movements that models can reproduce stably.
• Create storyboards and animatics for the first episodes.
• Assemble the first animated films, 60–90 seconds long, from 6–10 connected shots.
• Set up a basic workflow for voice, music, sound, and automated assembly.
• Create a classifier for defect causes and rules for regeneration.
• Define mandatory human approval points and stages that can be automated.
• Transfer recurring operations to Story OS and Character Bible Studio.
• Release the first 10 short animated films with the same characters and a consistent visual style.
• Record time, cost, number of re-generations, percentage of usable results, and cost per accepted shot.
• Prepare the process for scaling output volume without a proportional increase in the team.

We offer

• Work in a large diversified group of companies.
• Opportunity to influence the architecture of key business systems and digital products.
• Tasks at the intersection of business, processes, data, integrations, and IT architecture.
• Direct interaction with heads of business units, product, and IT teams.
• Opportunity to participate in building a modern data-driven and AI-enabled operating model.
• An entrepreneurial environment where changes can be launched quickly and results are visible.
• Salary level is discussed individually with the successful candidate.

*Forbes ranking based on 2025 results **HeadHunter Employer Ranking based on 2024 results ***RBC research