AI Creative Engineer

Title: AI Creative Engineer

Location: Remote - United States or Canada

Department: EPD

Job Description:

About Owner

Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.

We’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.

It powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.

Product philosophy

Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.

Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.

Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.

Our vision

We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.

But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.

Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.

In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.

Read our Series C memo here →

Our traction

Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.

More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.

Our team

Our team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.

We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.

Where we work

Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!

Why we are looking for you

Owner is building the agentic system for the next era of small business software. Visual content is one of the most visible and emotionally important parts of a restaurant’s brand—and it heavily shapes whether customers trust, click, and convert. We’re looking for an AI Creative Engineer to build and scale the creative engine behind Owner: image and video generation + processing pipelines that produce stunning, on-brand photos, illustrations, and video for restaurants out of the box.

This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada.

The impact you will have

• Own the end-to-end systems that generate and process restaurant imagery and video at scale.

• Build a style system (presets + guidelines) that creates beautiful, brand-appropriate outputs across restaurant types.

• Go deep with models and prompting to push quality, consistency, and creative range.

• Ship pipelines and tooling for iteration, QA, and post-processing (upscaling, cleanup, framing, compression).

• Build evaluation loops (rubrics, goldens, review) so creative quality improves continuously.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Design, AI, and Launch teams to turn creative generation into a durable product advantage.

Who you’ll work with

• You’ll partner closely with Engineering to build reliable generation and processing pipelines in production.

• You’ll collaborate with Product/Design and AI to define quality bars, style systems, and customer-facing creative experiences.

• You’ll work with Launch and Customer Success to learn what restaurants need—and where visuals drive conversion and trust.

What we’re looking for

• Exceptional art direction and photographic taste; you can look at an output and instantly know what’s off and how to fix it.

• Strong technical ability (you can code) and comfort building prototypes, scripts, and tooling to improve pipelines.

• Deep curiosity and hands-on experience with modern image/video models, prompting, reference workflows, and iterative improvement.

• A systems mindset: you care about reliability, cost, throughput, and guardrails—not just one-off great outputs.

• High-ownership execution: you move quickly from insight to shipped improvements, and you’re relentless about quality.

• Customer empathy for restaurants and an instinct for brand expression, vibe, and what “looks right” for different cuisines and identities.

Pay and benefits

The estimated base salary range for this role is $180K-192K, plus a generous pre-IPO equity package

Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, remote-first workplace, unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!

Notice - Employment Scams

Communication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address.

We do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or “spam” and do not respond.

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