We’re seeking a Production Creative Director to own the entire production and post-production process for one of our YouTube channels.
You will lead animation quality, editing excellence, pacing, comedic timing, visual clarity, and all creative decisions that impact the final on-screen product.
This role is part of a co-director structure:
- The Pre-Production Creative Director owns story vision, narrative direction, and script/story quality.
- You own bringing that vision to life, transforming storyboards and scripts into polished, highly engaging final episodes.
Your mission is to elevate executional quality, ensure creative consistency, and maintain a high-performance standard across every video.
About the Role
- Own the execution, pacing, animation direction, and final visual storytelling of every episode.
- Ensure that all production elements faithfully and creatively bring the pre-production vision to life.
- Create a consistent, efficient pipeline that blends creativity with operational excellence.
- Set creative execution standards, templates, workflows, and visual identity guidelines for the channel.
What You’ll Do
- Direct the animation and editing teams to ensure final output meets top-tier quality and channel identity.
- Oversee pacing, comedic timing, visual clarity, transitions, hooks, and retention-driven editing choices.
- Maintain creative alignment with the Pre-Production Creative Director to ensure continuity.
- Review, approve, and refine all animatics, edits, animations, and final cuts.
- Develop templates and style guides to streamline production.
- Ensure the channel’s visual identity and animation style evolve strategically and consistently.
- Troubleshoot production bottlenecks and improve pipeline efficiency.
- Analyze top-performing videos and integrate learnings into future execution.
- Mentor and guide animators, editors, and producers in best practices for YouTube animation.
About You
- Strong background in animation direction, editing oversight, or creative production leadership.
- Deep understanding of pacing, comedic timing, visual clarity, and YouTube storytelling.
- Highly skilled at refining animatics, improving edits, and elevating final visuals.
- Experience leading small-to-medium creative production teams.
- Strong eye for detail, timing, motion, and cinematic rhythm.
- Comfortable giving constructive, actionable feedback to animators and editors.
- Highly organized, operationally-minded, and able to improve pipelines.
- Passion for animation, storytelling, YouTube content, or digital-first production.
- You love execution, pacing, and visual polish more than early ideation or narrative development.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- Ownership of the entire visual execution and creative quality of the channel(s).
- Ability to elevate the animation/editing identity from scratch or into a premium standard.
- Collaboration with world-class creative, narrative, and production teams.
- Huge opportunity to shape the final look, feel, and performance of videos seen by millions.