About This Role
This role is for an AI Writer at Kuku AI Studio, a microdrama production house creating short-form shows for mobile viewers. The AI Writer builds the story skeleton and emotional architecture that feeds directly into an AI Director and AI Architect pair, serving as the creative specification for a machine. It requires a writer who values structure as much as story and understands the architecture behind effective scenes.
Responsibilities
- Read and internalise the adapted story skeleton character wounds, base emotion, identity threats, setting symbolism, arc structure, and translate that into episode-level decisions
- Develop full episode beat sheets covering every episode's hook, plot advancement, key emotional beat, close type, and the single question the audience is left with
- Write episode briefs that are compressed, precise, and immediately executable by an AI Architect without requiring creative interpretation
- Produce dialogue that passes two tests simultaneously: it must work as audio alone for a viewer who is not watching, and it must carry full subtext for a viewer who is watching but not listening
- Place paywalls correctly at peak emotional injustice or identity threat, never at a plot reveal
- Design cliffhangers that leave the audience with an emotional question they cannot bear to leave unanswered, not a plot question, an emotional one
- Calibrate the cliffhanger-to-satisfying-close ratio across a season; too many consecutive cliffhangers create fatigue, not urgency
- Write dialogue that differentiates every character by voice alone. Two characters in this show must never be interchangeable when their lines are read without attribution
- Brief the AI Director on the emotional intent of each episode before they begin visual execution. Your brief is their creative specification
- Review AI-generated episode output against your intended emotional architecture and flag structural mismatches to the Creative Producer
- Stay ahead of the director pairs in your pod; scripts must be ready before the production window opens, not during it
- Contribute to the script pattern library. Every structural solution you find to a recurring story problem becomes reusable for the whole team
Requirements
- A background in screenwriting, content writing, or creative writing; formal training is a plus, but a strong portfolio matters more
- Genuine understanding of what makes someone stop scrolling; you have watched enough microdrama or serialised fiction to know the difference between a hook that works and one that explains itself
- The ability to write emotion without stating it; your characters should never explain what they feel in dialogue
- Speed under pressure; you need to be productive at volume without losing quality
- Fluency in Hindi and English, as many of our shows are multilingual, and cultural register accuracy is non-negotiable
- Curious about AI as a creative tool; you will be writing for an AI pipeline, which means understanding what an AI can and cannot do with the brief you give it
About the Company
Kuku AI Studio is building the world's first large-scale AI-native microdrama production house, making short-form shows for hundreds of millions of viewers who watch on their phones.
