Lead the creative development of AI-assisted video content, overseeing multidisciplinary teams, driving innovation, and integrating Generative AI into video production workflows.
Superside is looking for a Creative Director, AI Video with a strong background in filmmaking, cinematography, post-production, and AI-driven creative workflows to help shape the future of video production.
In this role, you’ll lead the development of high-impact AI-assisted video content for global brands, combining storytelling, visual craft, creative leadership, and emerging technologies to push creative quality and innovation forward.
You’ll operate as both a hands-on creative and a strategic leader, guiding teams, mentoring creatives, collaborating directly with customers, and helping define how Generative AI integrates into modern video production pipelines.
This role is ideal for someone who deeply understands cinematic storytelling and video craft, while also being highly curious, experimental, and excited about the evolving AI creative ecosystem.
What You'll Do
- Lead the creative development of AI-assisted video content across campaigns, branded content, social, advertising, and experimental formats.
- Guide multidisciplinary creative teams across concept development, visual storytelling, editing, motion, and AI-enhanced production workflows.
- Combine traditional filmmaking, cinematography, editing, and post-production principles with emerging AI tools and workflows.
- Generate and refine concepts using AI video, image-to-video, compositing, and editing tools while maintaining high creative standards.
- Provide clear creative direction, feedback, and mentorship to creatives across multiple projects and workflows.
- Collaborate directly with customers, presenting creative rationale, leading reviews, and helping shape strategic creative solutions.
- Drive experimentation and innovation across AI video workflows, identifying opportunities to improve creative quality, scalability, consistency, and production efficiency.
- Help define and evolve internal AI video production standards, workflows, and best practices across teams.
- Contribute to team capability building through knowledge-sharing, documentation, mentorship, and creative leadership.
- Balance hands-on creative execution with leadership responsibilities across multiple fast-moving projects.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in filmmaking, video production, post-production, creative direction, or related creative fields.
- Strong portfolio showcasing cinematic storytelling, editing, visual direction, motion, or AI-assisted video work.
- Experience leading creative projects, mentoring creatives, and guiding multidisciplinary teams or workflows.
- Hands-on experience using Generative AI tools for video or image creation within production environments.
- Strong understanding of storytelling, composition, lighting, motion, pacing, editing, and cinematic language.
- Experience integrating AI-generated assets into professional production workflows while maintaining narrative quality and brand consistency.
- Strong understanding of modern AI video ecosystems, workflows, and experimentation practices.
- Proficiency in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other relevant Adobe Creative Suite applications.
- Familiarity with motion graphics, compositing, animation, or 3D workflows is a plus.
- Strong English communication skills with the ability to lead customer-facing conversations and collaborate across globally distributed teams.
- Ability to balance creative excellence, operational scalability, mentorship, experimentation, and strategic thinking in fast-paced creative environments.
Why Join us?
Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.
Remote-first. Customer-led.
Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
Global team, local impact.
Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.
High performance, low ego.
Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.
Impact meets opportunity.
We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.
Grow fast. Lead well.
You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.
About Superside
Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
Learn more at superside.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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