Storm Ideas
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🇿🇦 Up to ZAR 500,000 per year, on a full-time, permanent employment contract
🌎 Fully remote working from anywhere in South Africa!
🏖️ 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits
✨ Working with globally recognisable brands in US Entertainment
💻 High-end, fast computer
💡 All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need
About the Role
We are hiring a manager to relentlessly drive Storm's AI tooling operations forward. This role sits within our AI Operations team and is focused on the operational management of the AI tools, AI platforms, and AI-enabled workflows used across the business. It is a high-accountability operating role focused on AI tooling operations, AI platform reliability, and the technical standards that keep Storm's AI stack running well.
AI is moving relentlessly. We need someone who can stay on top of that pace, understand what is changing in the AI tooling landscape, decide what matters for Storm's AI stack, and continuously adapt how our AI tools are configured, run, and used as platforms, costs, risks, and capabilities shift.
A significant part of this role is making sure AI tooling is configured well, used correctly, and operationally reliable. You will work with teams that use AI tools day-to-day, understand where AI tooling is causing friction, identify the practical technical levers that will improve how those tools perform, and follow through on the detailed, sometimes tedious operational work that makes an AI stack dependable.
This role is for someone who wants real responsibility for the operational quality of our AI tooling. You will be expected to bring order to messy AI tooling operations, push through technical improvements, and keep Storm in control of fast-moving AI platform developments rather than reacting too late to them. Strong organisation and judgment are not enough on their own; the role requires practical technical judgment on AI platforms and tooling.
If you are looking for a predictable maintenance role, this is not it.
About Storm Ideas
Founded in 2008, Storm Ideas is an international team working with globally recognised clients, particularly across the US TV and entertainment industry.
Our work sits at the intersection of media, technology, creativity, and operations. We build products, produce content at scale, design smarter ways for clients and internal teams to work, and keep looking for new ways to improve how the company operates.
We are a remote-first, fast-moving company with established clients, a growing team, and a strong appetite for better tools, better systems, and better ways of working.
We are an AI-native agency and AI tooling is central to how our teams work. The AI Operations team exists to keep that tooling reliable, well-configured, and well-run. This role sits within that team and is focused on driving the operational quality of our AI stack.
What You Will Do
What We Are Looking For
What Success Looks Like
This Role Will Suit You If
What It's Like To Work Here
Modern Tech Stack
We use current tools, hardware, and working methods across our teams, and this role is responsible for the operational quality of the AI tooling part of that stack.
Agility and Openness for Ideas
We actively encourage people to bring forward ideas that improve how AI tools are configured and run. Operating with the agility of a growing company, alongside the support of an established organisation, means we value quick decision-making, practical experimentation, and clear follow-through.
Team-based
This role sits within the existing AI Operations team and is accountable for a defined part of the AI tooling stack. You will contribute to team priorities within that remit.
Flexibility
Storm is a remote-first company and this role is fully remote within South Africa. We care about outcomes, communication, and availability, not where you sit.
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