About the Role
We are seeking an AI Art Director / Creative Specialist to produce high-quality static visuals, campaign imagery, and video clips for clients. This role involves hands-on AI asset generation, collaborating with various teams, and requires excellent aesthetic taste, a strong design eye, and a structured approach to model execution within WPP Open and external AI tools.
Responsibilities
- Generate on-brand static visuals, storyboards, and presentation assets for pitches and campaigns.
- Apply disciplined generation techniques to achieve commercial-grade results.
- Maintain consistency in lighting, style, color, characters, and objects across multi-asset campaigns and video clips.
- Concept, generate, and refine AI image and video assets for final campaign production.
- Create visual assets to enhance client decks and presentations.
- Master WPP Open’s model stack and experiment with new external tools and models to improve output quality.
Requirements
- A strong eye for photography, composition, lighting, and color, ensuring realistic and premium AI generations.
- Deep understanding of the generation process, including troubleshooting, prompt refinement, parameter manipulation, and image/video-to-video techniques.
- Ability to review brand briefs and style guides to generate assets that align with brand aesthetics.
- Proven ability to achieve visual continuity across multiple generations.
- Hands-on experience with core image and video generation tools (e.g., Google Imagen, OpenAI GPT Image, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Google Veo, OpenAI Sora, Runway, Luma).
- Experience with prompting/text models (e.g., Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT).
- Basic post-production skills using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere) for cleanup and refinement.
- An ethical approach to AI generation, respecting copyright and brand safety.
- A portfolio demonstrating AI image & video generation, visual & character continuity, and execution & process.
Skills
- AI Image Generation
- AI Video Generation
- Iterative Prompting
- Parameter Tuning
- Multi-step Generation
- Visual Consistency
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere)
- Prompt Engineering
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $45,000—$95,000 CAD
About the Company
- VML is a leading creative company combining brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth.
- VML is recognized for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for major clients.
- VML's global network spans 55+ markets.
- VML is part of WPP, a trusted growth partner for leading global brands.
- WPP utilizes an agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, integrating media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- Committed to fostering a culture of respect where everyone feels they belong and has equal opportunities for career progression.
