Creative Lead

We're looking for a Creative Lead to join our NPI (New Product Introduction) creative team. You'll own and lead creative development from brief to approval — shaping concepts, presenting to stakeholders, and directing the creative quality of everything we produce across video, photography, and digital assets.This is a creative leadership seat, not a logistics one. You'll partner with a dedicated Operations Producer who owns vendor management, budgets, and production timelines — freeing you to focus on making the work better: sharper concepts, stronger storytelling, and a consistently high creative bar. This is a great fit for a senior agency creative, integrated producer, or creative lead who wants to own the creative voice of a global brand's in-house production team.

Responsibilities

Lead creative development for marketing asset production - interpreting briefs, driving ideation, and shaping concepts into storyboards, mood-boards, scripts, and treatments that win stakeholder buy-in; Own the creative interface with internal marketing stakeholders: translate business objectives into compelling creative, present work for alignment, consolidate feedback across regional and global teams, and drive creative decisions to resolution; Provide creative direction to external production vendors across pre-production, shoots, and post - ensuring concept, performance, composition, and craft are executed to standard, with on-set presence as creative supervisor for key productions; Set and uphold the creative quality bar across all outputs - video, photography, motion, and digital assets - reviewing work against both the approved creative and brand guidelines before it moves to stakeholder review; Mentor and develop in-house creative talent, providing directional feedback that grows design and craft capability within the team; Champion new creative techniques and production to elevate quality, speed, and range of in-house content

Requirements

8+ years in creative production, creative direction, or integrated production within an agency, production, or brand environment - with demonstrated ownership of creative outcomes, not only delivery; A portfolio of video and visual work you can speak to in detail - the concepts you shaped, the calls you made, and why; Strong presentation and storytelling skills, with a track record of pitching creative to senior stakeholders and defending a point of view constructively; Experience providing creative direction to external vendors and production partners through shoots and post-production; Strong understanding of brand guidelines and how to create distinctive work within them; Generates and elevates ideas - comfortable leading a brainstorm, challenging a brief, and improving a script; Balances creative ambition with production reality, in partnership with operations and vendor teams; Comfortable working with cross-functional teams from diverse cultures and backgrounds; Proactive, adaptable, and eager to grow within a fast-paced creative environment; Works well under pressure with a solutions-oriented mindset

Nice to have

BA in Mass Communications, Film, Video Production, Multimedia, Design, or related field; On-set experience as creative lead or director across video and photo productions; Experience navigating multi-stakeholder approval processes across regional and global teams; Experience mentoring designers or junior creatives; Familiarity with current AI-assisted creative tools (e.g. Firefly, Runway, Veo, Kling) and a considered point of view on where they belong in a brand production pipeline