Business Development Executive, Luma AI
Agency Partnerships
$140-160k
+ Equity
AI agents for creative work
Job no longer available
AI agents for creative work
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$140-160k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build multimodal general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of agency-facing business development experience, ideally in tech, media, or creative tools
- You have a robust network across creative, production, and media agencies—and they actually take your calls
- Experience building partnerships from initial conversation through long-term strategic relationship
- You understand agency economics, timelines, and the constant pressure to deliver breakthrough creative
- Track record of closing complex deals involving multiple stakeholders and decision makers
- Strategic thinker who can see around corners and anticipate market shifts
- Entrepreneurial mindset with experience thriving in fast-paced, early-stage environments
Desirable
- You genuinely get excited about emerging technology and love being an early evangelist
- You've worked at an early-stage startup and understand the unique challenges and opportunities
- You can translate complex technical capabilities into clear business value for creative professionals
- You build relationships for the long term, not just the next deal
- You have a sense of humor and can navigate the sometimes ego-driven world of advertising
- You see AI as augmenting human creativity, not replacing it
- You're energized by the idea of shaping an entirely new category alongside creative pioneers
- Expertise in your field: You already know the agency landscape inside and out
- Urgency, velocity and execution: We move at startup speed, agencies move fast too
- Problem solving mindset: Every partnership has unique challenges to solve
- Clear communication: You can explain complex AI concepts to creative directors
- Product focus: Everything serves our mission to expand human creativity
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Business Development Executive to transform how the world's most creative agencies work
- You'll partner with everyone from scrappy independent shops to global holding company networks, helping them discover how AI can supercharge their creative process—from initial brainstorm to final deliverable
- This isn't about disrupting agencies—it's about empowering them to do what they do best, but faster, more creatively, and at unprecedented scale
- Hosting a demo for a top agency's innovation team showcasing how Dream Machine can transform their pitch process
- Negotiating enterprise licensing terms with a top-tier creative agency that wants to integrate AI across all client work
- Collaborating with our product team after a production house requests specific video editing capabilities
- Speaking at Cannes Lions about the future of AI in advertising (okay, maybe not every week!)
- Working with an independent agency to pilot a new creative workflow using our latest models
- Building relationships with agency new business teams who see AI as their competitive edge
- Structuring a partnership with a media agency exploring AI-powered content personalization
- Ome of the Cool Things We're Working On:
- Building strategic partnerships with holding companies to bring AI creativity to their global client roster
- Developing custom creative workflows for agencies pioneering AI-first campaigns
- Creating case studies that showcase how AI can 10x creative output without sacrificing quality
- Establishing Luma as the go-to creative AI platform for the world's most innovative agencies
- Working with production houses to integrate our models into existing post-production workflows
- Partnering with agencies to create entirely new service offerings powered by AI
Application process
- Our interview process is designed to understand both your strategic thinking and relationship-building approach:
- Initial conversation about your agency network and vision for AI in advertising
- Strategic case study around a real agency partnership opportunity
- Product deep-dive with our team to understand what you'd be partnering around
- Meet with key stakeholders to discuss how partnerships drive our overall strategy
- Final conversations about expectations, compensation, and cultural fit
Our take
In a world where creators, filmmakers, advertisers, and brands are looking for faster, more flexible ways to produce high-quality visuals, Luma AI is building tools that turn ideas into production-ready footage in second. Its flagship platform, Dream Machines, already empowers millions of users to generate professional-grade video and images from simple text, image, or video prompts and its helping teams stretch their creative budgets, explore more concepts and rethink how storytelling gets made.
In 2025, Luma took a major leap forward with the launch of Ray3, its most advanced video model yet. Ray3 introduces true cinematic capabilities, like native HDR support, natural motion, character consistency, and a built-in reasoning system that lets the model "think through" a scene before generating it. Instead of behaving like a random slot machine, Ray3 can plan shots, understand director, and refine its output the way a real filmmaker would. So creators can storyboard visually with annotations, combine multiple scenes more smoothly, and generate 10-second, high-fidelity clips with far more control that previous models allowed.
This momentum is amplified by a wave of strong partnerships and industry adoption. Adobe selected Ray3 as its first third-party video generation model inside Firefly, giving millions of creative professionals access to Luma's technology directly in their everyday tools like Premiere Pro. The company is also working with major players like the Clio Awards, Dentsu Digital, Monks, StrawberryFrog, and Humain, all using Luma's models to push the boundaries of advertising, entertainment, and personalized content.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$900m
SERIES C
Dec 2024
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $987.3m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. Premium plans, zero stress, so you can focus fully on the work.
- Flexible time off: We trust you to manage your time. No accruals, no caps. Just the space to recharge when you need it.
- Premium Equipment: Latest MacBooks, studio-quality headphones, and whatever you need to do your best work. We remove the barriers.
- Learning Stipend: Conferences, courses, books, certifications. Invest in your growth however you choose.
Company HQ
West Oakland, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Amit Jain
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Apple as a Computer Vision, Cameras, and Systems Engineer. Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer at Circle Medical and an iOS Engineer at Product Hunt.
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