AI Video Creative Director

About the role

This role focuses on leading the creative development of AI-assisted video content across various formats, including campaigns, social media, and experimental projects. The director will guide multidisciplinary teams through concept development, visual storytelling, and AI-enhanced production workflows, ensuring high creative standards are maintained.

The position requires combining traditional filmmaking, cinematography, and post-production principles with emerging AI tools. This includes generating and refining concepts using AI video and image-to-video tools, while also providing clear creative direction and mentorship to team members. Collaboration with customers to present creative rationale and shape strategic solutions is also a key responsibility.

Success in this role involves driving innovation in AI video workflows, identifying opportunities to improve creative quality, and enhancing production efficiency. The director will also help define internal AI video production standards and contribute to team capability building through knowledge-sharing and mentorship, balancing hands-on creative work with leadership duties.

The salary for this position ranges from $132,250 to $207,000.

Skills that matter here

• filmmaking: This role requires a strong background in traditional filmmaking principles to combine with AI tools for video production.
• post-production: Expertise in post-production is essential for integrating AI-generated assets and maintaining narrative quality.
• AI tools: Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for video and image creation is necessary to lead AI-assisted video content development.
• Premiere Pro: Proficiency in Premiere Pro is required for editing and professional production workflows.
• After Effects: Proficiency in After Effects is necessary for motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects within video projects.
• Adobe Creative Suite: Familiarity with the broader Adobe Creative Suite is expected for various creative tasks and integrations.

Who this role suits

• A person who can effectively lead multidisciplinary creative teams and provide clear direction.
• Someone with a strong portfolio showcasing cinematic storytelling and AI-assisted video work.
• An individual who thrives on experimentation and innovation in AI video workflows.
• A professional capable of balancing hands-on creative execution with leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.

From the employer

What You'll Do

• Lead the creative development of AI-assisted video content across campaigns, branded content, social, advertising, and experimental formats.
• Guide multidisciplinary creative teams across concept development, visual storytelling, editing, motion, and AI-enhanced production workflows.
• Combine traditional filmmaking, cinematography, editing, and post-production principles with emerging AI tools and workflows.
• Generate and refine concepts using AI video, image-to-video, compositing, and editing tools while maintaining high creative standards.
• Provide clear creative direction, feedback, and mentorship to creatives across multiple projects and workflows.
• Collaborate directly with customers, presenting creative rationale, leading reviews, and helping shape strategic creative solutions.
• Drive experimentation and innovation across AI video workflows, identifying opportunities to improve creative quality, scalability, consistency, and production efficiency.
• Help define and evolve internal AI video production standards, workflows, and best practices across teams.
• Contribute to team capability building through knowledge-sharing, documentation, mentorship, and creative leadership.
• Balance hands-on creative execution with leadership responsibilities across multiple fast-moving projects.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience in filmmaking, video production, post-production, creative direction, or related creative fields.
• Strong portfolio showcasing cinematic storytelling, editing, visual direction, motion, or AI-assisted video work.
• Experience leading creative projects, mentoring creatives, and guiding multidisciplinary teams or workflows.
• Hands-on experience using Generative AI tools for video or image creation within production environments.
• Strong understanding of storytelling, composition, lighting, motion, pacing, editing, and cinematic language.
• Experience integrating AI-generated assets into professional production workflows while maintaining narrative quality and brand consistency.
• Strong understanding of modern AI video ecosystems, workflows, and experimentation practices.
• Proficiency in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other relevant Adobe Creative Suite applications.
• Familiarity with motion graphics, compositing, animation, or 3D workflows is a plus.
• Strong English communication skills with the ability to lead customer-facing conversations and collaborate across globally distributed teams.
• Ability to balance creative excellence, operational scalability, mentorship, experimentation, and strategic thinking in fast-paced creative environments.

Why Superside

• Superside's vision is to create more equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we’ve built a natively remote company enabling us to attract the best talent no matter where they are.
• Remote-first. Customer-led.
• Join a global community spanning 60+ countries, where remote work isn’t just a perk, it’s how we deliver our best. At Superside, being remote means fully committing to our customers and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
• Experience a fast-paced, high-energy environment with truth-seeking teammates. We foster trust, collaboration, and continuous learning to grow individually and together.
• Join at the perfect moment: influence our product like a startup while enjoying the stability of a thriving scale-up. Your ideas are welcome—improve, innovate, and lead with us.
• Advance your career through growing responsibility and mentorship. We're here to support your leadership journey while disrupting a global industry with massive potential.
• We give you the necessary tools and resources to take control of your development and unlock your full potential. With continuous learning opportunities, constant mentoring and leadership development efforts, we strive to build high-performing teams that can grow alongside our company.