Runwayml is hiring a Creative Director to oversee all creative output from concept through execution. You will be responsible for brand and product campaigns, art direction, copy, and leading a growing creative department that reports to the Chief Creative Officer.
What You'll Do
- Develop creative concepts, campaigns, and brand platform work across all channels and formats.
- Provide creative direction and oversight across the full department.
- Manage and develop a team of writers, art directors, designers, video editors, developers, and social specialists.
- Concept and create key pieces yourself when the work demands it.
- Set art direction and copy direction for campaigns, brand, web, product, video, events, and social.
- Work with product marketing to translate briefs into powerful creative ideas.
- Oversee photo and video shoots alongside the Studios team and freelance production crews.
- Brief and manage freelance talent and agency partners during campaign surges.
- Help establish creative processes, review cadences, and quality standards as the department scales.
- Present concepts and creative work to senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in creative roles, with significant time at agencies or in-house teams that think like agencies.
- A portfolio that shows conceptual range across both copy and art direction.
- Someone who is actively utilizing AI in their creative process today.
- Proven ability to direct and elevate writers, art directors, and designers.
- Incredibly strong art direction sensibilities, deep knowledge of industry defining work and sharp instincts for language and tone.
- Experience leading and mentoring creatives, not just directing work.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to operate in a fast-changing environment.
- Experience directing video and motion work, not just static and copy.
- Understanding that great advertising and great content aren't separate disciplines.
- A career built out of making things and proactively creating opportunities.
Team & Environment
You will be the day-to-day creative leader of a department of copywriters, art directors, brand designers, and video producers, reporting directly to the Chief Creative Officer (CCO).
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $250,000 - $290,000
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role open to candidates in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or working remotely.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
