Director, Creative Production

Role Overview

• Lead applied creative exploration at the intersection of storytelling, production craft, and emerging creative tools and workflows.
• Design and execute creative prototypes and proof-of-concept work that test creative value, technical feasibility, and production impact.
• Evaluate emerging tools, models, and workflows through hands-on experimentation in real production conditions.
• Explore new artistic and production approaches spanning animation, live action, and visual effects.
• Partner with studios and business units to deliver proof-of-concept and targeted go-live projects aligned to real production needs.
• Tailor creative exploration to the workflows, constraints, and creative environments of adopting teams across animation, live-action, and VFX.
• Serve as a creative production partner to studio teams evaluating and piloting new creative capabilities.
• Support early adoption by validating workflows in realistic, production-ready contexts.
• Work closely with Platform Integration to align creative exploration with identified production opportunities.
• Collaborate with Engineering to inform tool design, usability, and creative affordances from a working artist’s perspective.
• Translate exploratory ideas into tangible creative demonstrations that can be validated, refined, and handed off.
• Build, lead, and mentor small, agile creative production teams optimized for rapid experimentation and delivery.
• Assemble and manage project-based artists and specialists as needed to support specific initiatives or creative domains.
• Create compelling creative demonstrations that clearly communicate new capabilities and workflows to internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven experience in senior creative management with the ability to remain hands-on in execution.
• Deep production expertise in a senior role such as Animation Supervisor, Character Supervisor, CG Supervisor, or VFX Supervisor.
• Demonstrated creative judgment grounded in real-world production environments and workflows.
• Experience building, leading, and mentoring small, highly skilled creative teams.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end production processes across animation, live action, or visual effects.
• Ability to collaborate deeply with technical and operational partners, including Platform Integration and Engineering.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, early-stage exploration, and rapidly evolving creative and technical environments.
• Clear, credible communicator capable of articulating creative value and production impact to both artists and technologists.
• Experience operating at a senior level with stakeholders, including the ability to function as a peer to VPs and SVPs.
• Capacity to balance creative experimentation with operational rigor, quality standards, and production discipline.
• Interest or experience working within fast-moving, emerging, or AI-enabled creative workflows.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k) plan
• life insurance coverage
• disability benefits
• tuition assistance program
• PTO
• bonus eligible