Creative Director: Media Production & Digital Storytelling, Project specific

About the Role

Summary 

This is a project-specific Creative Director role supporting one of Journey’s key upcoming projects in New York. The role requires clear experience in digital storytelling & media production, with strong creative leadership skills & imagination.

This role will work closely with the Project Director and Lead Producer, acting as the primary creative authority across the project. The Creative Director will translate strategic, curatorial, and client objectives into a cohesive creative direction of media production, ensuring alignment across disciplines and throughout all phases of delivery.

The Creative Director will collaborate with internal teams (design, media, technical, production) and external partners to ensure that all creative outputs are conceptually strong, aligned, and delivered to a high standard. This role requires both conceptual leadership and hands-on creative direction through to execution.

We're unable to offer further details about the project online, but are happy to share details in interview once an NDA has been signed.

Key Responsibilities 

The essential functions include, but are not limited to:

Creative Leadership: 

• Define and articulate a clear, cohesive creative vision across all media touchpoints
• Ensure alignment of narrative, visual language, and interaction design across linear and interactive experiences
• Maintain creative consistency and integrity from concept development through to final delivery
• Translate strategic and curatorial intent into compelling audience-facing experiences

Creative Development: 

• Lead the development of creative treatments, storyboards and visual guidelines
• Defining and resolving creative ideas before communicating to the production team to ensure efficiency of production resources
• Oversee the development of content across film, interactive, and media production

Production Oversight: 

• Work closely with production and technical teams to ensure creative ideas are achievable within budget and timeline
• Oversee all stages of production, ensuring outputs meet the approved creative direction
• Responsible for art directing film and still shoots, where necessary or working with an Art Director
• Provide input into audio and music direction, including briefing external partners

Collaboration & Client Engagement:

• Jointly responsible (alongside the Producer) to ensure internal and external deadlines & reviews are met, attending all project reviews
• Attend and contribute to client meetings, clearly communicating creative rationale and responding to feedback
• Build alignment across stakeholders, ensuring creative decisions are understood and supported

Candidate Qualifications & Skills:

Required

• Demonstrable senior experience within a digital storytelling and/or media production environment.
• Demonstrable experience of intellectual and creative rigour
• Strong research, storytelling and conceptual thinking, with the ability to translate ideas into fully realised experiences
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly to clients
• Previous experience of leading teams, both directly and indirectly.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on moving image, including editing
• Experience directing creative for experiential immersive experiences
• Adaptable to different creative approaches and styles
• Experience with film and photography shoots
• Knowledge of standard software and workflows to achieve creative goals and express vision to the production team

Desirable

• Experience working on cultural or exhibition-style projects
• Familiarity with interactive and media systems within built environments
• Experience collaborating with audio or music-focused creative teams

Application Criteria

Please submit a CV and bespoke cover letter outlining how your experience suits the requirements of this role. We also welcome portfolios if you wish to share one, but this is not compulsory.

Due to the project specific nature of this opportunity candidates must be eligible to work in the US. We also welcome people to tell us their availability and possible start date as part of their application.

Salary Pay Range$115,000—$145,000 USD

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