[Hiring] Creative Lead, Video Production @JoVE

Role Description

As the Creative Lead – AI Video Production, you will lead a team of AI video artists and editors in producing high-quality, visually engaging videos using generative AI tools. You will be responsible for:

• Creative direction, visual storytelling, production quality, team performance, and continuous improvement of AI-assisted video production workflows.
• Guiding the team from storyboard interpretation and visual development through AI footage generation, editing, and final delivery.
• Ensuring consistent visual quality, efficient production, and alignment with project objectives.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining creative expertise, technical problem-solving, team mentoring, and production management.

Qualifications

• Experience translating scripts, creative briefs, and storyboards into compelling visual narratives for educational, promotional, or brand-focused videos.
• Total Experience - 5+ years; minimum 1 year of experience leading creative teams, with a proven ability to mentor, guide, and develop talent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present ideas to internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in video editing and motion graphics software (Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro) and familiarity with generative AI video tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in conceptual storytelling and the ability to translate educational objectives into engaging narratives.
• Understanding of video storytelling fundamentals: composition, pacing, color theory, and narrative flow.
• Solid skills in compositing, color theory, and color correction to ensure visual coherence and high production value.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, and maintain organized file structures.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI video tools.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn, experiment, and adopt AI tools where they can enhance efficiency and creativity.

Requirements

• AI Video Production & Creative Direction: Lead AI-assisted video production using generative AI image and video tools, ensuring strong visual storytelling, cinematography, animation quality, and consistency across projects.
• AI Production Workflow Optimization: Develop and improve AI-assisted production workflows, from storyboard interpretation and image generation to video generation, editing, and final delivery. Identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve efficiency and reduce rework.
• Visual Quality & Consistency: Review AI-generated outputs for character consistency, proportions, continuity, composition, camera movement, and visual artifacts such as morphing or glitching. Provide clear, actionable feedback to maintain production quality.
• Team Performance & Productivity: Manage team workloads, monitor production targets and quality metrics, conduct regular performance reviews, and mentor artists to improve creative and technical capabilities.
• AI Tool Research & Implementation: Evaluate emerging AI image and video generation tools, experiment with new techniques, and introduce practical solutions that improve visual quality, creativity, and production efficiency.

Benefits

• Compensation competitively placed within the local market, including unlimited bonus for manuscript acquisition.
• Direct impact in accelerating science research and discovery.
• Opportunity to work in a remote environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
• Strong promotion from within culture that draws a clear path to advance your career.