AI Video Creative Director

About the role

This role focuses on leading the creative development of video content that incorporates AI tools. The director will guide multidisciplinary teams through concept development, visual storytelling, editing, and motion, ensuring high creative standards are met. This involves combining traditional filmmaking principles with emerging AI technologies across various content formats, including campaigns, branded content, and social media.

A key aspect of this position is driving innovation in AI video workflows. The director will experiment with new tools, identify opportunities to enhance creative quality and production efficiency, and help establish internal standards and best practices for AI video. This includes generating and refining concepts using AI video, image-to-video, compositing, and editing tools.

Success in this role means balancing hands-on creative execution with leadership responsibilities. The director will provide clear creative direction and mentorship to team members, collaborate with customers to present creative rationales, and contribute to the team's overall capability through knowledge-sharing and documentation. The aim is to disrupt the industry by leveraging AI to create scalable and consistent video content.

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

Skills that matter here

• filmmaking: This role requires a strong foundation in traditional filmmaking principles to apply them to AI-assisted video production.
• post-production: The director will integrate post-production techniques with AI-enhanced workflows to refine video content.
• AI tools: Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for video and image creation is essential for developing new content and workflows.
• Premiere Pro: Proficiency in Premiere Pro is necessary for editing and integrating AI-generated assets into professional video productions.
• After Effects: Expertise in After Effects will be used for motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects within AI-driven projects.
• Adobe Creative Suite: Familiarity with the broader Adobe Creative Suite supports the comprehensive production and editing tasks of the role.

Who this role suits

• A person with at least five years of experience in creative direction or video production, who has a portfolio demonstrating cinematic storytelling and AI-assisted video work.
• Someone who thrives in a leadership role, capable of mentoring creative teams and guiding multidisciplinary projects while balancing hands-on execution.
• An individual with a strong understanding of both traditional filmmaking and modern AI video ecosystems, eager to drive experimentation and innovation.
• A professional who can communicate effectively with both internal teams and external customers, presenting creative rationale and shaping strategic solutions.

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.