About the Role
Architectural Digest is seeking a Senior Director, Creative Production to oversee day-to-day production, ideate, innovate, and execute on pilots and existing series. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of overseeing creative production in original digital video and evaluating digital content relevant to AD’s audience, with a strong understanding of executing content for a high-profile brand. This role involves expanding the digital entertainment portfolio and driving creative production to grow audience, engagement, and monetization.
Responsibilities
- Producing all AD digital video from greenlight to delivery, across all formats.
- Driving storytelling development, vision, and execution for new and returning series.
- Managing the creative production team to ensure content is delivered to brand standards.
- Leading cross-team creative brainstorms for existing series to elevate creative output.
- Acting as field director for high-quality and high-impact video series, managing projects from pre-production to post.
- Delivering a distinct creative vision to production crews and talent for all studio and field projects.
- Ensuring creative vision is executed from pre-shoot through post.
- Maintaining accountability and brand standards for video execution quality, including creative review, edit, and approval of all executed videos.
- Creating storyboards, mood boards, casting suggestions, and detailed creative treatments/loglines for ongoing and new digital IP.
- Viewing all cuts across production to ensure creative standards are being met.
- Collaborating with Creative Optimization and Audience Development teams, applying data and insights into creative decisions.
- Collaborating with Revenue teams on creative material requests, balancing business needs with editorial integrity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in digital media, creating high-impact content with top-tier talent.
- Proven creative leader with a track record of producing and overseeing video content.
- 4+ years of directing video productions, from lean shoots to multi-camera productions, including directing both professional and non-professional on-camera talent.
- End-to-end experience developing, producing, and launching digital video that drives strong organic engagement across platforms.
- Strong creative judgment, with extensive experience providing feedback throughout development, production, and post-production, including collaborating closely with editors to solve creative challenges.
- Deep understanding of internet culture, with expertise in design, celebrity, lifestyle, and pop culture content, and what performs across platforms.
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize competing deadlines, and collaborate effectively across creative teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative approach.
- Experience navigating complex, matrixed organizations and creating a culture of professionalism, accountability, and results.
Skills
- Digital video production
- Creative direction
- Video editing
- Storytelling
- Team management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Data analysis
- Internet culture
- Design
- Celebrity
- Lifestyle
- Pop culture
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000-$205,000
Benefits
- Generous employee benefits package
- Potential for discretionary bonus compensation
About the Company
- AD is the international authority on design and architecture, providing exclusive access to beautiful homes and influential people.
- AD inspires millions of affluent readers through a multiplatform presence including print and digital editions, social media, signature events, and archdigest.com.
- Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit and many more.
- Headquartered in New York and London, Condé Nast produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide.
- At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures.
- We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions.
- We recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.
Equal Opportunity
- Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.
