About the Role
Ruder Finn is seeking a Senior AI Video Producer to create high-quality AI-generated and AI-assisted video content for agency and client work. This is a hands-on creative production role focused on moving fluidly from idea to execution, with approximately 70% dedicated to AI video creation and 30% to broader creative production needs.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality AI-generated and AI-assisted video content from concept through final delivery.
- Translate creative briefs and strategic inputs into video concepts, scripts, treatments, and production approaches.
- Use generative AI tools to create various video assets.
- Generate and refine AI visuals with a strong creative eye, incorporating motion, voiceover, and music.
- Build video sequences with clear story structure, emotional arc, and strong pacing.
- Help establish repeatable AI production processes, prompt systems, and quality standards.
- Stay current on emerging AI video, image, voice, audio, editing, and production tools.
- Recommend AI tools and workflows based on creative needs, timelines, and budgets.
- Follow agency guidance around AI usage, confidentiality, and responsible production.
- Serve as a hands-on creative producer and editor for both AI and non-AI projects.
- Edit primarily in Adobe Premiere Pro, including rough cuts, fine cuts, and final exports.
- Support live-action, event-based, and fast-turn video needs.
- Help develop treatments, mood boards, scripts, and storyboards.
- Partner with creative, strategy, production, account, digital, design, and client teams.
- Manage timelines, feedback rounds, priorities, and deliverables.
- Participate in brainstorms and contribute ideas.
- Support client-facing conversations by explaining creative choices and production approaches.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in video production, branded content, creative production, post-production, editorial, social content, film, advertising, PR, agency, or integrated communications environments.
- At least 1 year of meaningful hands-on experience creating AI-generated or AI-assisted video content.
- Strong hands-on editing ability in Adobe Premiere Pro.
- A strong reel, portfolio, or individual video samples showing video craft, storytelling ability, editing instincts, visual judgment, and AI-generated or AI-assisted work.
- Ability to clearly identify your role in submitted work.
- Strong understanding of cinematic language, including composition, camera movement, lighting, and visual continuity.
- Excellent editorial instincts, including pacing, timing, music selection, and story structure.
- Ability to write, shape, or improve scripts, voiceover, treatments, and short-form narratives.
- Hands-on experience with AI video, image, voice, music, or creative tools such as Runway, Kling, Pika, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, or similar platforms.
- Ability to distinguish polished, cinematic AI work from generic, uncanny, unfinished, or low-quality AI output.
- Comfort working across different styles, including cinematic, social-first, influencer-style, documentary, brand anthem, explainer, pitch, internal, executive, and experimental formats.
- Experience creating pitch videos, campaign films, case studies, social assets, executive videos, client-facing creative prototypes, or similar content.
- Ability to work directly with internal teams and clients in a clear, confident, collaborative way.
- Comfort presenting creative work to clients and explaining the rationale behind creative and technical decisions.
- Strong production judgment.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple projects at different stages.
- Curiosity and adaptability as AI tools, workflows, standards, and client expectations continue to evolve quickly.
Skills
- AI Video Creation
- AI-assisted Video Creation
- Video Production
- Creative Production
- Post-production
- Editorial
- Social Content Creation
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Generative AI Tools
- Cinematic Language
- Pacing
- Timing
- Music Selection
- Story Structure
- Scriptwriting
- Voiceover
- Treatments
- AI Video Tools
- AI Image Tools
- AI Voice Tools
- AI Music Tools
- Runway
- Kling
- Pika
- Midjourney
- ElevenLabs
- Suno
- Udio
- Adobe Firefly
- ChatGPT
- After Effects
- DaVinci Resolve
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- CapCut
- Descript
- Topaz
- Motion Graphics
- Design
- Color Correction
- Sound Design
- Audio Mixing
- Live-action Production
- Hybrid AI/Live-action Production
- Workflow Development
- Training Material Creation
- Creative Guideline Development
- Production Standard Development
- Communications
- Earned Media
- Reputation Management
- Healthcare Industry
- Technology Industry
- Corporate Communications
- Integrated Campaigns
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 – 125,000
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunity
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401k with match
- Monthly allowance for cell phone, office equipment, etc.
- Generous PTO policy
- Paid maternity/paternity leave
- Transit benefits
- Professional learning and development opportunities
- Workplace flexibility
- On-site and off-site social gatherings
About the Company
- RF Studio53 is a cutting-edge creative studio based in New York, dedicated to crafting meaningful and unforgettable visual experiences.
- From stunning graphic designs to captivating moving images and immersive interactive content, we transform ideas into powerful narratives.
- Working with an international roster of top-tier businesses and industry leaders, we excel in bridging innovation and change through communication that resonates.
- Our expertise spans brand communications, advocacy, corporate storytelling, employee engagement, brand strategy, paid media, and every space in between.
- At RF Studio53, creativity knows no bounds.
Equal Opportunity
- Ruder Finn provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Ruder Finn will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
- Ruder Finn believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
