BuzzFeed.com AI Creative Fellow

Job Description:

The Role

The BuzzFeed Fellowship is a full-time program for aspiring and hungry creators eager to experiment with the latest AI technology to make playful and conversation-starting work. The program is a full time deep dive with generative AI and Fellows will regularly contribute — both directly with content and indirectly in strategic sessions — to BuzzFeed’s ongoing AI content strategy. This is not a tech or development role, this is an editorial, creative job. If you have experience using emerging tech tools to make cool stuff of your own, even better!

Fellows need a strong grasp of the nuanced cultural conversations happening all over the internet and should be excited about contributing to those conversations, if not starting new ones, via AI-enhanced/generated content. We’re looking for people genuinely obsessed with social media and tracking online memes, trends, and viral moments — and people who have some experience (even if it's just personal or casual) with ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E, and/or other AI tools. Fellows should be prepared to work across mediums and formats — quizzes, image collections, videos, and more. Think AI powered image generators, lists of AI-generated images, gamified chatbots, filters and new formats we haven't seen yet made possible with generative AI.

Fellows will work with and learn from members of the BuzzFeed team — some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, and most viral creators out there. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media. You won’t be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else’s interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, and ultimately creating dozens of pieces of content that will be published across BuzzFeed’s network.

The Fellowship is fun and inspiring, but also fast-paced and challenging.

This is a paid position, with a range from $20-25/hour depending on technical skills and experience. The Fellowship allows for candidates to work fully remote in select locations, but there will also be opportunities to work from our NY or LA locations.

We’re recruiting positions for Summer Fellowship start times, and applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.

You Will

We're looking for culture, internet, and technology obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending, and talking about. You should also have:

• A positive, curious, playful disposition
• A genuine, wide-eyed love of internet culture and digital trends of all types

Experience using current and emerging AI creation tools (Chat-GPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and beyond)

• An interest in social platforms and what drives people to share content
• Curiosity and excitement about social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.)

In addition, you should demonstrate the following:

Some experience creating content for the internet (it doesn’t have to be formal — anything from published articles to creative Twitter threads to personal TikTok accounts)

• Experience writing prompts and an understanding the current landscape of AI and LLM tools
• Ability to quickly identify social trends and topics
• Ability to handle critical feedback and improve from it
• Eagerness to collaborate
• Ability to interpret key audience data points relating to your work and use it to adapt and evolve your approach moving forward
• Experience with video editing tools a plus

To Apply

Please submit the following when applying to be an AI Creative Fellow:

• Instead of a formal cover letter, take some time to research two generators we’ve already published (like Wedding Ring Designer, Transform Your Pet Into A Human, or Soda Generator). You can find all the generators on our Arcade page as well. Select two generators and consider the following questions about them:
  • What was your overall experience like using the generators?
  • Did you encounter any challenges using the generators?
  • How would you improve or change the generator in any way?
  • What audience do you think this generator applies to?
  • You must provide 3 new generator ideas that you think would apply to the BuzzFeed audience

• OPTIONAL: Make a BuzzFeed.com Community profile, and create 1-2 posts that reflect your voice and interests. The posts should include some AI-generated content (text or images). When you submit your posts, include “This is for the AI Creative Fellowship.” in the description. If you publish posts, please include the links in your application materials!
• Provide links to your public social media accounts.
• Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more.