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Creative Director

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Runway is at the absolute frontier of AI-powered creative tools — their Gen-3 video model is reshaping filmmaking and visual storytelling. A creative director here leads the vision for how AI creativity is presented to the world. Truly once-in-a-generation territory.

Job description

# Creative Director

**Location:** New York; Remote; San Francisco

About the Role

We're building something unusual: an in-house creative studio producing campaign work, bespoke content, product education, events, and proper advertising, all under one roof.

Runway seeks a Creative Leader to oversee creative output from concept through execution, reporting to the Chief Creative Officer. This position owns brand and product campaigns, sets art direction, writes or directs copy, and leads a team of copywriters, art directors, brand designers, and video producers.

The role requires strength across both copy and art direction—not equally deep in both, but able to concept in either lane and provide sharp feedback across all creative surfaces.

Responsibilities

  • 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 growing team: writers, art directors, designers, video editors, developers and social
  • Concept and create key pieces yourself when needed—described as a "player / coach"
  • 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

    • Requirements

  • 8+ years in creative roles, with significant time at agencies or in-house teams that think like agencies
  • Portfolio showing 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 and sharp instincts for language and tone
  • Experience leading and mentoring creatives
  • Comfort with ambiguity — we're building the plane while flying it
  • Experience directing video and motion work
  • Understanding that great advertising and great content aren't separate disciplines
  • Proactive track record of creating opportunities

    • Compensation

    **Salary Range:** $250,000 - $290,000

    About Runway

    Runway

    AI-powered creative tools for video generation and editing. Used in the production of Oscar-winning films.

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