AI Creative Director (San Francisco)

Qualifications

• Creative decisions stay consistent across shots and revisions
• Strong taste and clear point of view
• Ability to simplify: find the one idea and protect it
• Practical understanding of AIs strengths and limits in production
• Ad agency, studio, or strong freelance background
• Experience building repeatable creative systems (templates, playbooks, QC)
• Editing literacy (pacing, sound, timing), even if you dont cut every piece

Responsibilities

• You turn briefs into clear concepts, strong stories, and work that feels like great filmmaking
• You lead the creative process, set the bar, and help the team ship
• Lead creative from brief to final delivery
• Define the core idea, narrative, tone, and visual language for each project
• Set the creative approach for AI workflows (what to generate, what to design, what to edit)
• Guide scripting, storyboards, and production plans
• Direct reviews and feedback cycles
• Keep work aligned and moving
• Present concepts and creative rationale to clients
• Translate notes into clear next steps
• Maintain creative quality and consistency across a slate of work
• Projects ship on time without quality drifting
• Report directly to CEO
• Own creative standards across projects
• Help shape how we scale creative output without losing quality

Full Description

You own the creative vision for AI-assisted ads.

You turn briefs into clear concepts, strong stories, and work that feels like great filmmaking.

You lead the creative process, set the bar, and help the team ship.

What youll do

• Lead creative from brief to final delivery.

• Define the core idea, narrative, tone, and visual language for each project.

• Set the creative approach for AI workflows (what to generate, what to design, what to edit).

• Guide scripting, storyboards, and production plans.

• Direct reviews and feedback cycles. Keep work aligned and moving.

• Present concepts and creative rationale to clients. Translate notes into clear next steps.

• Maintain creative quality and consistency across a slate of work.

What success looks like

• We compare our work to great films and ads, and not ads made by AI.

• Concepts are simple, clear, and worth making.

• Creative decisions stay consistent across shots and revisions.

• Projects ship on time without quality drifting.

• The team knows what great looks like because you define it.

What were looking for

• Strong taste and clear point of view.

• Ability to simplify: find the one idea and protect it.

• Practical understanding of AIs strengths and limits in production.

Nice to have

• Ad agency, studio, or strong freelance background.

• Experience building repeatable creative systems (templates, playbooks, QC).

• Editing literacy (pacing, sound, timing), even if you dont cut every piece.

Scope

• Report directly to CEO.

• Own creative standards across projects.

• Help shape how we scale creative output without losing quality.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industry

Software Development

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