Art Director – Video

Role Overview

• Lead video direction across live-action, motion graphics, and social content, translating client goals and audience insights into clear, actionable storyboards and shot lists for the team.
• Review, refine, and approve video edits, sound design, and color grading to ensure they reflect best practices, contemporary standards, and brand consistency.
• Lead the development and evolution of motion languages (video style guides, kinetic typography standards, and branded transitions) for clients and internal initiatives.
• Partner with senior strategists and creative leadership to identify opportunities to strengthen video impact and alignment with performance insights.
• Create hands-on video work for high-impact initiatives, brand anthems, or priority campaigns that set the narrative tone for the project.
• Execute complex post-production tasks, including advanced motion graphics, compositing, and sound mixing, serving as the lead editor on key accounts.
• Oversee and execute on-set art direction, ensuring lighting, composition, and set design align with the creative vision during shoots.
• Stay current on video trends, platform updates (Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts), and camera technology to guide the team on creative innovations.
• Define and demonstrate internal best practices for digital platforms including YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and OTT/CTV environments.
• Mentor videographers and editors by providing thoughtful direction on pacing, narrative structure, and technical execution.
• Guide and assign contractors, voice-over artists, or freelancers to ensure creative quality, budget efficiency, and brand alignment.
• Present video concepts and storyboards to clients with clarity, confidence, and strategic rationale.
• Support business development by joining pitch calls, helping shape video proposals, and elevating the storytelling approach in new client opportunities.
• Help identify and resolve production roadblocks (equipment needs, render times, scheduling) that impact timelines or campaign success.

Requirements

• Mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder) with the ability to execute high-level motion and editing.
• Proficiency in color grading workflows and audio mixing.
• Advanced skills in visual storytelling, storyboarding, cinematography (lighting/composition), and narrative pacing.
• Ability to lead and edit for diverse formats, including short-form social (9:16), long-form YouTube (16:9), and broadcast TV/OTT.
• Experience producing and directing motion graphics, kinetic typography, and visual effects.
• Experience building video brand guidelines, motion templates (MOGRTs), and production toolkits.
• Ability to interpret scripts, strategy, and research and translate them into actionable directorial guidance to other editors/shooters.
• Strong file management, proxy workflows, and server organization.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• 100% coverage for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Paid company holidays
• Unlimited sick leave
• Flexible remote work options
• 12 weeks paid parental leave