Director, Creative Production
The Director, Creative Production leads applied creative exploration at the intersection of storytelling, production craft, and emerging creative workflows. This role partners closely with studios and adopting business units to develop proof‑of‑concept and production‑ready creative work that explores new tools, techniques, and approaches to content creation.
The Director builds and leads small creative production teams. These teams focus on specific projects. They receive support from project‑based artists and specialists when needed. They experiment, create prototypes, and deliver work in real production conditions. Working alongside Platform Integration and Engineering, this role helps shape how new creative capabilities are evaluated, refined, and brought into functional use while also exploring new storytelling methods, artistic techniques, and creative workflows that are not yet tied to an active production or brand.
This role is designed for a senior creative leader with deep production experience, such as a former Animation Supervisor, Character Supervisor, CG Supervisor, or VFX Supervisor, who brings solid creative judgment grounded in real production environments.
Responsibilities
Applied Creative Exploration & Prototyping
- 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.
Partnership with Studios and Adopting Organizations
- 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.
Embedded Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- 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.
- Ensure all creative experimentation remains grounded in applicable, scalable production workflows.
Creative Production Leadership
- 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.
- Establish creative direction and quality standards while maintaining flexibility based on the problem being explored.
- Foster an environment that encourages creative risk‑taking while upholding professional production discipline.
Internal Communication & Demonstration
- Create compelling creative demonstrations that clearly communicate new capabilities and workflows to internal stakeholders.
- Contribute to presentations, reviews, and working sessions that help teams envision future creative possibilities.
- Support internal storytelling around applied creative innovation without positioning work as original IP or content development.
Basic Qualifications
- 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.
Additional Qualifications
- 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.