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Talent Brand Partner — Luma AI

The Build & Present Brief

This isn't a take-home. It's a real piece of work that shows us how you'd approach this role. Here's everything you need.

01The ask

The 30-second version.

In one breath —

Pick one or more of Luma's Talent Brand North Stars below. Build something that moves us toward it. Present what you built — what, why, how — to a small panel: Josh (Talent Ops & Engineering Lead), one of our recruiting leads, a marketing partner, and a senior member of our creative and social teams.

You'll get free access to the Luma Agents platform for a month — yours for the whole of this stage and beyond. Use our tools, your tools, anything you want. The output can be anything — a campaign concept, a content piece, a microsite, a video, a launch kit, an advocacy playbook. The format isn't the point. The thinking is.

02Your North Stars

Four directions. Pick at least one.

This is the core of the brief. You're making a strategic choice when you pick from these — that choice is itself part of what we're evaluating.

01North Star

Make sure candidates know who we are.

The single biggest signal we care about: when a recruiter says "I'm from Luma AI," candidates already know who we are. Today, depending on the role, that's roughly 3 or 4 in 10. We want it to be 10 in 10. Anything that moves that number up the funnel — awareness, inbound interest, social presence — moves this North Star.

Candidate awareness
02North Star

Be a real presence where the talent already gathers.

Awareness gets us in the door; presence keeps us in the conversation. Our audiences live in specific places — NeurIPS, ICML, SIGGRAPH, meetups, hackathons, university labs, and the podcasts and feeds those researchers, frontier engineers, and AI-native designers actually follow. Anything that turns Luma into a trusted, recurring presence in one of those rooms — rather than a name people half-recognize — moves this North Star. Depth in one community beats a viral post that lands nowhere.

In the right rooms
03North Star

The story is told by the people building it.

Luma has unbelievably talented researchers, engineers, designers. Their work, told in their voice, is the most powerful asset we have. Anything that lowers the activation energy for them to share their work — and shows their work well — moves this North Star.

Built by builders
04North Star

Make every step of the candidate journey feel unmistakably Luma.

Focus on the moments we actually control: the way we publish a role, the first recruiter message, the interview experience, and the offer itself. The moment someone gets a Luma offer should feel like a milestone, not an email. Anything that raises the craft on a real candidate touchpoint — and makes the whole journey feel like one company with one voice — moves this North Star.

The candidate journey
03What you'll have

The starter pack.

Five things show up the moment you kick off the build. None of them are gimmicks — they're what we'd hand the person in this seat on day one too.

i

Free access to Luma Agents — for a month

A full month of free access to the Luma Agents platform — Ray3.14, Uni-1.1, and the whole creative toolset. Yours for this stage and well beyond it. You don't have to build with it, but it's there if you want to.

ii

A content packet

YouTube links to Luma launches and announcements (including our newest — the Open Physical AI Lab), podcast episodes featuring our team, examples of Dream Lab work, sample content from our product, and internal materials we can share publicly.

iii

Live job postings

The actual open reqs we're hiring against right now — research, engineering, GTM. Useful if you want to build something tied to a real hiring moment.

iv

Our brand pillars

The four North Stars above, plus a short brand voice document.

v

A direct line to Josh

For any clarifying questions during the build. We'd rather you ask than guess wrong.

NoteThe actual content packet, brand voice doc, and platform access instructions arrive in a separate email at the start of this stage. If anything's missing when you start, ping Josh — flag this for confirmation that everything's shipped.

Want to learn the platform before you dive in? You don't have to use Luma Agents for this — but if you'd like to, here's everything you need to get good at it fast. (Using it well within the time is genuinely impressive; treat it as a bonus, not a requirement.)

04Time, format, constraints

Read this twice.

Six constraints. The first three are the hard ones. The rest is permission.

TimeRoughly 2 – 6 hours

A suggestion, not a stopwatch — don't read too much into the number. We're not after agency-grade polish, just a thoughtful piece that shows your craft and judgment. You'll have free Luma Agents access for the whole stage, so lean on it if it helps.

FormatAnything

Microsite, campaign concept, video, content series outline, launch kit, deck, Lovable prototype, Figma file. Pick what lets you show the thinking best.

ScopeYour call

Pick one North Star and go deep, or pick multiple and connect them. We'll judge the choice itself as part of the work.

Polish vs. ideasScrappy + smart

We prefer scrappy and smart over polished and safe. Show us the reasoning behind the work, not just the finish on it.

AI toolsUse them. Visibly.

Non-negotiable signal. Show us how you actually work — what tools, where you cut corners, where you didn't.

DeliverableWhatever you bring to present

No required template. Send a link or attach to the calendar invite if you want us to look ahead of time. Not required.

05The presentation

Forty-five minutes. Conversational.

Plan for ~15–20 minutes of you presenting, the rest is conversation. Push back on us, ask us questions, tell us where you'd want more info. We're trying to see how you'd actually work with us — not whether you can deliver a polished monologue.

J

Josh Gill

Head of Talent Ops — your hiring manager
R

Recruiting Lead

One of our recruiting leads
M

Marketing Partner

A partner from our marketing team
C

Creative / Social

A senior member of our creative and social teams
i.What we'll want to hear
01What did you build?
02Why this, why this North Star?
03How did you think about it?
04How would you measure whether it's working?
05What would you do next if you owned this for real?
06What we're looking for

The scoring lens.

Candidates do their best work when they know what we care about. Here it is, in plain English. Six things.

01

Strategic clarity

Did you pick a North Star deliberately and explain why?

02

Craft

Is the work itself well made? Would we be proud to ship it?

03

Originality

Does this look like something you actually made — or like something every employer brand candidate would have made?

04

AI fluency

Did you use AI tools in a way that made the work better, faster, or both?

05

Systems thinking

Did you show how this would scale, repeat, or plug into something bigger? Or is it a one-off?

06

Voice

Does it sound like Luma — or could we swap our logo for any other AI company?

07What success looks like

This. Not this.

Concrete examples. Not a rubric — these are illustrations of the shape we're looking for, on each side.

This
  • A short-form video series concept with one episode mocked up using Luma Agents
  • A launch kit for a real open role — copy, social assets, and a 7-day calendar
  • A microsite for "Life at Luma" with 3 working employee story sections
  • A repeatable template for turning researcher LinkedIn posts into shareable assets
  • A redesigned offer experience — the moment someone gets a Luma offer, mocked end to end
  • A plan to show up at NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, or a hackathon — booth/presence concept, content, and a follow-up sequence
  • A speaker / thought-leadership kit that gets one of our researchers onto a podcast or panel
  • An employee-advocacy playbook that makes it easy for engineers to share their work
×Not this
  • A 40-slide strategy deck with no actual work shipped
  • A generic "social media calendar" with placeholder content
  • A campaign that could run for any AI company unchanged
  • Pure positioning — we want to see things made
08Logistics

The practical bits.

When it's due
Within a week of the starter-pack email that kicks this stage off. Sending it also starts panel scheduling, so don't sit on it once it's ready.
When to schedule
Within 5–10 business days of receiving this brief. Email rec-ops@lumalabs.ai to find a time.
Where
On site wherever possible — we'll get as much of the panel in the room as we can. Some panelists may join remotely, and you're welcome to present remotely if on site isn't workable for you.
Send ahead
Nothing required. If you want us to look at anything before the call, attach it to the calendar invite. (Optional.)
What to bring
Just your laptop and whatever you built. We'll handle the screen and the rest.
Platform access
A free month of Luma Agents, delivered by email at the start of this stage. If it hasn't landed by the time you start, ping Josh.
09Questions during the build

Ask. Really.

"Should I do X or Y?" is a perfectly fine question. We'd rather you check than spin for two hours on the wrong assumption.

Stuck or want to gut-check direction?

Email Josh. Reply inside one business day.

joshua@lumalabs.ai

Logistics, scheduling, platform access?

Recruiting handles the operational side.

rec-ops@lumalabs.ai