Business Development Executive, Luma AI
Brand Partnerships
$140-160k
+ Equity
AI video generation with Ray3 & Dream Machine
Job no longer available
AI video generation with Ray3 & Dream Machine
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-160k
+ Equity
101-200 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 experience in brand partnerships, innovation, or creative business development
- You've closed deals that matter—strategic partnerships that moved the needle for both sides
- Strong understanding of content production workflows, from concept to campaign launch
- Experience working with brands in fashion, lifestyle, or adjacent creative industries is a major plus
- You're comfortable being an educator and evangelist for emerging technologies
- Track record of building relationships with C-suite executives and creative leaders
- Self-starter mentality with exceptional organizational and communication skills
Desirable
- You get energized by explaining complex technology in simple, compelling ways
- You've worked at an early-stage startup and loved the pace and ambiguity
- You have experience in e-commerce creative and understand the business ecosystem
- You see partnerships as long-term relationships, not one-time transactions
- You're genuinely curious about how AI will transform creative industries
- You thrive in collaborative environments where every function matters
- The idea of shaping an entirely new market category excites you
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Business Development Executive to pioneer how global brands and innovative challengers unlock the creative potential of AI
- You'll be the bridge between Luma's cutting-edge technology and the world's most creative marketers, helping them reimagine everything from initial ideation to final production
- This isn't about selling software—it's about evangelizing a new era of creativity where AI becomes the ultimate creative partner
- Meeting with a luxury fashion brand's creative director to explore AI-powered campaign concepts
- Structuring a strategic partnership with a major agency to integrate Dream Machine into their creative workflows
- Collaborating with our product team to understand how a beauty brand's feedback could shape our next features
- Presenting at a marketing conference about the future of AI in brand storytelling
- Negotiating a multi-year partnership deal that unlocks new revenue streams
- Working with our research team to demonstrate emerging capabilities to forward-thinking CMOs
- Building relationships with creative agencies who are hungry to experiment with AI
- Some of the Cool Things We're Working On:
- Partnering with global fashion houses to create AI-powered virtual fashion shows
- Building strategic relationships with creative agencies pioneering AI workflows
- Developing custom solutions for brands experimenting with personalized video content
- Creating case studies that showcase the future of AI-native marketing
- Establishing Luma as the go-to creative AI platform for premium brands
- Working with our research team to understand what brands need before they know they need it
Our take
In a world where creators, filmmakers, advertisers, and brands are looking for faster, more flexible ways t produce high0quality visuals, Luma is building tools that turn idweas into prpduction-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 topok a major leap forward with the launch of Ray3, its most advanced miveo model yet. Ray3 introduces true cinematic capabilities, like native HDR support, natural motion, character consistency, and a built-in reasoning system tha tlets 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.
Freddie
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 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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