Turn stories from something you watch
into something you play.

About the Role

Vizzy Labs (venture-backed, San Francisco) builds Taplot (taplot.ai): AI-generated interactive dramas where the player's choices drive the story. We're looking for a narrative game designer who is passionate about crafting emotionally engaging stories, designing meaningful player choices, and exploring how AI can transform the future of storytelling.

Commitment

We’re open to several ways of working together. Choose the one that fits you best:

• Full-time (40+ hrs/week): You’re a strong independent creator who can also lead other creators to produce interactive dramas that fit our platform.
• Part-time (fixed 20 hrs/week): You deliver a set number of dramas based on company needs, and share ideas for improving both the platform and other creators’ work.
• Freelance: Just create fun, eye-catching content.
• Interns are welcome, and we’re open to candidates who need visa sponsorship.
• All roles are fully remote (United States).

Pilot test: Whichever type you apply for, you’ll first complete a pilot episode. We provide funding and content support to help you design it. Pass the pilot, and you move on to a formal collaboration.

Tell us which type you’re applying for, how many hours a week you can commit, and your expected rate.

Responsibilities

• Own the narrative vision of our interactive dramas from concept to final build: worldbuilding, characters, dialogue and branching narrative design.
• Design meaningful player choices, branching story paths and multiple endings that balance narrative depth with player engagement.
• Use AI tools (LLMs, image, video and voice generation) to speed up writing, iteration and creative exploration.
• Work closely with product, engineering, art and design to take stories from prototype to launch.
• Refine stories using player feedback, analytics and live performance.
• Give writers and narrative designers actionable creative feedback and keep a high storytelling bar across the team.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of professional experience in game narrative design, game writing, scriptwriting, or a related creative writing role.
• Strong command of interactive storytelling: branching narratives, player agency and choice-driven experiences.
• Proven ability to create compelling characters, engaging dialogue and emotionally impactful story arcs.
• Comfortable adopting new AI tools and workflows to improve creativity and production speed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• A strong sense of pacing, narrative structure and player engagement.

Nice to Have

• Proven industry experience in areas other than narrative design, such as system design, gameplay design, or monetization design.
• Writing for narrative-driven RPGs, visual novels, interactive fiction, choice-based games (Episode, Choices, Chapters) or short dramas.
• At least one shipped game or interactive narrative project.
• A portfolio with narrative design work, writing samples or shipped titles.
• Insight into the global interactive drama and short-form content market.

How to Apply

Apply below with a portfolio or writing samples.

About Us

We are an AI interactive entertainment startup turning short dramas and story content from something you watch into something you play. Our team comes from Stanford, Google, and TikTok, and we have raised close to $10M. Our product is live in beta: AI adapts a viral short drama into a playable, branching interactive game in under an hour. We are redefining interactive entertainment on three layers: video-native interactive storytelling (cinematic live-action quality, not game-engine graphics — every choice changes the story), an AI-native creation pipeline (script breakdown, branch design, and final cut are 90% done by AI agents — creators just bring a great story), and TikTok-style distribution feeding a 'Roblox for interactive content' where anyone who can tell a story can publish an interactive drama.

What You'll Do

• Own product end-to-end for our AI-native interactive content / UGC game platform, across the consumer experience and the AI creation tools.
• Define the roadmap and north-star metrics with the founders; build the data and growth loop (instrumentation, funnels, retention, A/B).
• Design the two-sided ecosystem: content supply-demand matching, creator incentives and revenue share, community and remix loops.
• Translate frontier AI capabilities (generation, agents, world models) into experiences users can feel.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in consumer products spanning at least two of: games, UGC platforms, content communities, creator tools; real 0-to-1 experience.
• Hands-on growth experience with first-hand judgment on retention, monetization, and virality.
• AI-native daily workflow; deep gamer or heavy consumer of short drama / interactive fiction.
• Working-level English; startup pace and ownership.

Nice to Have: Roblox/UEFN-type ecosystem experience, short-drama globalization, AI companion products, US/SEA growth.

We offer competitive cash + meaningful early equity.

About Us

We are an AI interactive entertainment startup turning short dramas and story content from something you watch into something you play. Our team comes from Stanford, Google, and TikTok, and we have raised close to $10M. Our product is live in beta: AI adapts a viral short drama into a playable, branching interactive game in under an hour. We are redefining interactive entertainment on three layers: video-native interactive storytelling (cinematic live-action quality, not game-engine graphics — every choice changes the story), an AI-native creation pipeline (script breakdown, branch design, and final cut are 90% done by AI agents — creators just bring a great story), and TikTok-style distribution feeding a 'Roblox for interactive content' where anyone who can tell a story can publish an interactive drama.

What You'll Do

• Build our content supply engine from zero: in-house PGC incubation, seed creator acquisition, then a self-sustaining UGC ecosystem.
• Recruit, segment, and grow seed creators; design and validate incentive structures (guarantees, rev-share, contests, traffic boosts).
• Close the loop between creators and our AI creation tools: templates, learning curve vs. creative freedom.
• Set content quality bars, run co-creation programs, and build supply-side analytics (creator funnel, supply-demand match, retention).

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years in UGC game / creator ecosystems: Roblox, Fortnite UEFN, Minecraft, Eggy Party, PUBG Mobile (Oasis) creator programs, TikTok Gaming, or similar.
• First-hand cold-start experience — you can articulate what YOU made happen, not just what you witnessed.
• Deep understanding of creator motivation and economics; strong content taste; data-driven.
• Working-level English preferred (global creator community).

Nice to Have: overseas creator networks (Discord/MCN/KOC), being a creator yourself (maps/mods/interactive fiction with shipped work), creator economy design.

We offer competitive cash + meaningful early equity.

Vizzy Labs builds Taplot (taplot.ai), where anyone can make and play AI interactive films and games. We're looking for a UI designer with great taste to make Taplot look and feel beautiful.

What you'll do

• Design screens for Taplot's creator studio and player (web + mobile), from first sketch to polished high-fidelity UI.
• Own the visual details: layout, typography, color, iconography and motion.
• Work directly with the founder and engineers. Your designs ship in days, not quarters.

What we look for

• A portfolio that shows strong visual taste and polished UI. This matters more than anything else.
• Figma fluency.
• Comfort using AI tools in your own design work.
• English + Mandarin Chinese is a plus (the team works in both).
• Interest in games, interactive stories or short drama is a plus.
• A background in graphic, print, brand or visual design is a plus.

Junior and senior designers are both welcome.

Terms: remote contract, part-time or full-time, flexible hours. Paid per project or hourly, depending on experience.

Apply with your portfolio link.

Vizzy Labs is an AI-powered interactive entertainment platform. We’re looking for a creative, social media savvy intern to turn AI short dramas into engaging clips for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X.

You’ll find compelling moments, edit short-form videos, write captions, and publish content. We provide the strategy, raw footage, and posting guidelines.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is based in the US and available to start immediately.
• Has experience editing short-form content and creating content for or managing faceless accounts.
• Understands hooks, trends, and what makes people stop scrolling and engage.
• Ideally has experience with drama or entertainment content.

Part-time: 2–3 hours per day

To apply, send a brief introduction, examples of accounts or posts you’ve worked on, and your availability.

Remote, paid per finished project. US-based preferred.

About us

Vizzy Labs (vizzylabs.ai, venture-backed) builds Taplot (taplot.ai), an interactive short-series platform. The episodes are AI-generated and the player's choices drive the story. Creators use our AI agent to turn a story into a playable series: no camera, no actors, no game engine.

What you'll do

• Pitch and write interactive stories in the Episode / Choices / Chapters tradition: a strong hook, a clear trope, choices that change how the player feels, and a cliffhanger that earns the next episode.
• Use our AI agent to make each story playable end to end: characters, scenes, dialogue, branches and endings. You direct; the agent generates the video.
• Play your own build like a player, find the confusing beats and the dead choices, and fix them before you hand it in.
• Give clear notes on other stories: what you didn't understand, what's broken, what works. Your notes also teach our AI what a good story feels like.

What we're looking for

• You have finished at least one branching story that real readers played: an Episode or Dorian story, a ChoiceScript or Twine game, a visual novel, an otome route, or interactive fan fiction. Finished matters more than follower count.
• You know why the romance, revenge, forbidden-love and power-fantasy tropes work, and you can write a story that is a little over the top and still makes people play on.
• You like trying new tools. You have used ChatGPT, Claude or AI image / video tools in your own work, or you are eager to.
• You care about results. We pay for a finished story that meets the bar, not for hours.

Nice to have

• Writing credits at Episode, Pixelberry (Choices), Crazy Maple (Chapters), Dorian, Pocket Gems, or a short-drama app such as ReelShort or DramaBox.
• A small, active readership on Wattpad, AO3, itch.io or Instagram.
• Game design, screenwriting or short-video editing experience.

How it works

• Send us one or two stories you have finished (links are fine).
• Trial: we give you your own workspace and a generation budget, and you make one short episode with our agent.
• If the trial lands, we commission full stories at a fixed fee per story, paid once the story is accepted.

Vizzy Labs builds Taplot (taplot.ai), where anyone can make and play AI interactive films and games: playable series that hook like short drama and hold you like a game. We're backed by a top-tier US fund and part of a Sequoia program in North America; the founding team comes from Stanford, TikTok and Google.

This category is new and almost nobody is bidding on this audience yet. We want someone who can both buy traffic and make the creatives, and take Taplot from its first players to millions.

What you'll do

• Own North America consumer growth across TikTok, Meta and Google: CPI, CTR, D1/D7 retention, payers and ROAS.
• Make the creatives yourself: cut hooks from our series, spin variants with AI video tools, test dozens a week, and keep what wins.
• Grow through creators and UGC: creator partnerships, boosting the best creator-made series (Spark Ads and similar), so growth comes from content, not only spend.
• Feed what you learn back to writers, designers and our AI creation pipeline: which genres, openings and choices make people click and stay.
• Turn it into a repeatable growth playbook.

What we look for

• Growth or UA experience on a consumer app: short drama, mobile or mini games, interactive stories, social or AI. Bring numbers you moved.
• You make creatives yourself: editing, scripting hooks, AI video or image tools.
• Fast experiment loops and clear write-ups.
• Content taste: you know why people click, stay and share.

Nice to have

• North America UA for ReelShort, DramaBox, Episode, Chapters or similar.
• Creator or influencer program experience.
• English + Mandarin Chinese (the team works in both).

Terms: remote; full-time or part-time.

Apply at https://taplot.ai/career

Vizzy Labs builds Taplot (taplot.ai), where anyone can make and play AI interactive films and games. AI video and AI coding have cut the cost of making an interactive series dramatically; now we need people who make them genuinely fun. We're backed by a top-tier US fund and part of a Sequoia program in North America.

We put story and casual games together. The story pulls players in; quick casual games make it fun to play and replay. At key story beats, a round of match, merge, puzzle, reflex or tycoon play decides what happens next. You'll design those games and the systems around them, and build them yourself.

What you'll do

• Design casual mini-games that live inside a story: learnable in seconds, 30 seconds to 3 minutes a round, and the result changes the plot.
• Design the systems that bring players back: levels and difficulty curves, rewards and collections, energy or tries, chapter unlocks and well-placed paywalls.
• Turn mini-games into templates that Taplot's AI creation agent and UGC creators can drop into their own series and reskin for any genre.
• Prototype it yourself with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) on web, Cocos, Unity or Godot, and ship playable demos in days, not months.
• Iterate on real player data: first-time success, completion, replays, drop-off points and conversion.

What we look for

• You led gameplay design on at least one shipped casual or mini game and can explain the decisions you made.
• You build your own games: indie releases, web or H5 games, TikTok or WeChat mini games, or game jam entries.
• You understand what makes casual games sticky: core loop, game feel, feedback, pacing, and ad or IAP monetization.
• You use AI tools in your daily work.

Biggest plus: you've made story + casual games. Think narrative match-3 or merge games (Gardenscapes, Homescapes, Merge Mansion), story-driven mini games, or interactive stories, otome games or visual novels with mini-game moments.

Also nice to have

• Mini games inside UGC editors (Roblox, UEFN).
• Live ops, monetization, or UA creative for casual games.
• English + Mandarin Chinese.

Not a fit: designers who only do economy or balancing for midcore or hardcore games; people who only write design docs and don't build.

Terms: remote; full-time or part-time.

Apply at https://taplot.ai/career with a link to something you made that we can play.

Employment Type

Independent contractor, near full-time during active productions

Compensation

$50–$100/hour guaranteed base, plus revenue share and breakout bonus. You keep your copyright.

About Vizzy Labs

Vizzy Labs is a VC-backed San Francisco studio founded by Stanford and Google alumni, building the future of interactive drama: short-form stories where the viewer decides what happens next. Minutes long, watched on a phone, where the visual hook has to land in the first three seconds.

AI tooling made it cheap to generate a lot of footage. It did not make it easy to generate footage that looks authored. Closing that gap is this job.

About the Role

You set the look of a series through concept art and keyframes, then hold the quality bar as that look moves through AI video generation. You are the taste layer — the person who can say exactly why a shot feels flat (staging, lens, value structure, cut rhythm) and then fix it, by repainting a frame, reshaping the approach, or directing the generation differently.

Senior, hands-on craft role. You'll direct, and you'll also make. Not a prompt-writing role.

What You'll Do

• Develop environment and mood concept art that establishes each series' world, palette, and lighting language
• Produce keyframes and shot mood frames that give the production team an unambiguous visual target
• Partner closely with a narrative designer — story beats and visual language get built together, not handed off
• Review AI-generated video from internal and external teams; give precise notes on composition, blocking, lighting continuity, performance, and edit rhythm
• Get hands-on in generation and iteration, and hand-correct output where generative tools fall short
• Write down what "good" means: aesthetic standards, cinematic language guidelines, reference libraries
• Coach our internal AI content creators so quality compounds across projects

Qualifications

• Multiple years of professional experience in film/TV, game or animation cinematics, advertising, or an adjacent creative industry — shipped work, real deadlines, real stakeholders
• Real command of visual and audiovisual language: composition, staging, color and value, lighting, lens behavior, continuity, and how a cut carries emotion
• Strong traditional art fundamentals — you can draw and paint, and can hand-correct a generated image instead of rerolling and hoping
• Working fluency with generative image and video tools. We're tool-agnostic; we judge output, not software
• Range across visual styles, plus the judgment to know which style serves which story
• Experience art-directing or mentoring other artists — a meaningful part of this role is raising the team's bar, not only your own output
• Clear written communication and feedback other artists can act on
• Able to work autonomously across time zones with async review cycles

Preferred

Vertical or short-form experience; custom pipeline work (node-based workflows, character consistency, fine-tuning); cinematography, editing, or previs background; Chinese-language ability (not required).

Compensation and Terms

We structure this role around three commitments:

• Guaranteed base pay — $50–$100/hour. Set by experience and demonstrated ability, and paid for every hour you work regardless of how a title performs. Your rate moves up as your work proves out. This is your floor, not your ceiling.
• Upside on top of base — revenue share and breakout bonus. You receive a share of revenue on the titles you shape, plus an additional performance bonus when a title becomes a hit. This is added to your hourly pay, never in place of it.
• You keep your copyright. Narrative designers and artists retain copyright in the work they create — we take the license we need to produce and distribute it, and your creative output remains yours. This is unusual in this industry, and it's deliberate: we think the people who make the work should own it.

Independent contractor agreement; hourly billing against agreed scope, invoiced on a set cycle.

Hiring Process

Apply through our careers page with your portfolio and resume — concept art and keyframes are what we most want to see.

Apply: https://reelcraft.art/career

Shortlisted candidates are invited to a paid trial that mirrors the real job: pair with one of our narrative designers on an actual scene, set its visual direction, and work with the video team to push a finished clip as far as it can go. We pay for your time and give honest feedback either way.

Vizzy Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate on craft and judgment.