Associate Creative Director, Video

Job Summary

The associate creative director, video is responsible for leading the creation of stories, video and photography for integrated campaigns and brand identities. With passion and purpose, you craft concepts that result in awe inspiring emotion and award-winning productions. You are driven by a desire to solve business problems with a strategic mindset and masterful executions that create positive change.

With integrated campaign experience you seek out insights that inform impactful ideas that emotionally connect consumers to brands. Your ideas are rooted in empathy, inclusivity and inspired by cultural awareness. As a team lead, you champion others’ ideas to exceed potential. You’re not only a leader you are still deeply connected to practicing your craft. From pitch videos to campaign concepts you mentor by showing teams the way to success. When it’s time to present your passion for the work inspires courage in our teams and our clients to build brave brands.

Essential Duties and Functions

Agency subject matter expert of film, still and motion used in advertising, social and experiential.
Guide teams with a strong verbal and visual aesthetic perspective grounded by purposeful intention.
Work closely with principals, creative directors and brand directors to grow accounts, strategic vision and drive execution for all projects.
Manage 2-3 creative team members through daily mentorship and annual growth plans for videographers, art directors and copywriters.
Collaborative leader with ability to effectively delegate, give constructive feedback and guide teams across the agency toward courageous work.
Seek out strategic insights from internal teams and clients that reinforce the work.
Solve problems proactively with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Lead and support development of videos (broadcast & content), photoshoots, integrated and digital campaigns
Participate in daily project management scrums and lead teams through projects that are on time and on budget.
Develop schedules, scopes and budgets in collaboration with project management team.
Contributes to agency and department growth through strategic planning, new business responses, committee participation and creative thought leadership.
From creative briefs through detailed execution, you are a champion of details and strive for mic-drop creative every day.
Represents the agency’s core values in the agency and in the community through attendance of industry and client events.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in film, advertising, communications, or comparable field of study
10+ years’ experience producing video for integrated campaigns, broadcast productions, web content series and social preferably in a advertising or creative agency.
Deep experience in all facets of the video production process from concept to station uploads.
3+ years of management experience supervising creative and video production teams

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and other Characteristics

Experience writing director’s treatments, scripts and other brand related copy.
Experience directing and shooting for lifestyle and product campaigns.
Expert knowledge editing and postproduction in Adobe creative suite specifically Pr, Ae, Ps, Ai.
Experience leading and managing production process for video, photo and web.
Experience sourcing, securing and managing production partners, talent, and locations.
Experience leading teams on set, on location
Experience evolving production technology needs, managing production equipment list maintaining detailed production storage redundancies.
Must be a team player. Have an eagerness for continued learning, follow through with creative direction and provide clear direction to teams.
Motivated by creative excellence and a drive to meet deadlines.
Ability to maintain confidential customer and company information.
Ability to effectively present information to agency teams peers and clients.
Ability/skill in interpersonal relations when interacting with internal and external customers.

All interested applicants should send cover letter, current resume and link to online portfolio to careers@chappellroberts.com with “Associate Creative Director – Video” as the subject line.