Acting & Animation Performance Consultant

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🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏱ Part Time

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Weekday (YC W21)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

☁️ SaaS

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Human Resources • SaaS • Recruitment

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Join a leading AI lab at the forefront of generative AI innovation and help shape the future of performance-driven AI systems. • Contribute expertise toward evaluating and improving AI models that transfer and preserve human performances across different outputs. • Establish evaluation standards: Define criteria for assessing performance fidelity, emotional authenticity, and physical accuracy. • Evaluate how effectively AI-generated outputs preserve the original actor’s intent, timing, expression, and movement. • Identify shortcomings in existing evaluation approaches and recommend improvements. • Curate benchmark content: Select and analyze performance examples that range from straightforward to highly nuanced and challenging. • Help establish meaningful benchmark datasets for evaluating AI performance transfer capabilities. • Shape human evaluation frameworks: Define reviewer qualifications, expertise requirements, and evaluation methodologies. • Develop scoring rubrics and guidelines for large-scale human review processes. • Collaborate closely with other creative and technical specialists to ensure evaluation consistency and quality. • Provide subject matter expertise that informs future model development and assessment strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10 years of professional experience in the entertainment, film, animation, visual effects, or related creative industries. • Demonstrated contributions to at least two professionally released films, animation productions, or equivalent projects. • Expertise in one or more of the following disciplines: • - Character Animation (human or character performance-focused) • - Character Technical Design • - Acting Coach or Acting Instructor (film, television, or theater) • - Director of Photography (DP) • - Performance Capture or Character Performance Development • Exceptional ability to recognize and evaluate: • - Micro-expressions • - Emotional nuance • - Physical acting choices • - Timing and performance rhythm • - Authenticity of human movement and behavior • Strong familiarity with AI tools and workflows, including the ability to generate and evaluate visual examples. • Excellent written communication skills and the ability to translate complex performance observations into structured evaluation criteria and documentation.