Creative/Video Director

Perspective Pictures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free coffee, tea, and fruit in the off

Monthly team activities

Hybrid working options

Job summary

Perspective Pictures in East London is seeking a senior creative/director to lead on major accounts, from brief interrogation to on-set direction and final post.

You will shape treatments, pitch directly to clients, and direct on set with clarity and flair across campaigns, social formats, and founder-led content. The role demands a strong reel and a track record of senior-level pitching and delivery, with international travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a creative role at a production company, agency, or studio.
• A reel that shows range and a recognisable sensibility.
• Track record of pitching and winning work at a senior level.
• Comfortable directing at any scale — from a self-shot piece to a full crew with clients on set.
• Global or international campaigns, including directing on location or overseas.
• Strong writing: scripts, VO, social concepts.

Responsibilities

• Leading creative on major accounts, from interrogating the brief through to signing off the grade.
• Building and delivering pitches that win; you’ll be the voice in the room.
• Directing across the full range of outputs: campaign films, social-first series, founder-led content, fast-turnaround formats.
• Setting the visual and tonal direction of a project and maintaining it despite feedback and tight schedules.
• Running sets with authority and calm among crew, talent, clients, and agency.
• Collaborating with the DOP on camera, lighting, and coverage, balancing ambition with budget.

Skills

Creative directing

Pitching & winning

On-set directing

DOP collaboration

Strong writing

Job description

East London · Occasional travel, including Dubai

We're looking for a creative who directs. Someone who can walk into a client room with an idea, defend it, then stand on set two weeks later and actually make it. If you've spent a few years being the safest pair of hands on the shoot and you're ready to own the creative behind it too, read on.

• Free coffee, tea, and fruit in the office
• Monthly team activities
• Hybrid working options

Perspective Pictures makes branded videos for the internet. We're 20+ people across East London and Dubai, fully kitted, and we handle everything in-house from the first idea to the final export.

5,000+ videos. 50+ countries. Clients ranging from start-ups nobody's heard of yet to RedBull, LEGO, Adobe, TikTok, and Lululemon.

The mission hasn't changed: make the best, most engaging video content brands can put online.

This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where y ou'll take briefs at the point they're still vague, find the idea inside them, and carry it all the way through to delivery; pitch, prep, shoot, post.

You’ll shape ideas, build treatments, pitch directly to clients, and direct on set with clarity and flair.

• Leading creative on major accounts, from interrogating the brief through to signing off the grade.
• Building and delivering pitches that win. You'll be the voice in the room, not the person behind the deck.
• Directing across the full range of what we make: campaign films, social-first series, founder-led content, fast-turnaround formats.
• Setting the visual and tonal direction of a project and holding it — through client feedback, weather, and a schedule that's tighter than you'd like.
• Running sets with authority and calm. Crew, talent, clients, and agency all watching the same monitor.
• Working shoulder to shoulder with your DOP on camera, lighting, and coverage, and with production on where ambition has to meet budget.
• Steering post so the delivered cut is recognisably the thing you sold.
• Mentoring other creatives: reviewing their work, sharpening their pitches, and telling them the truth about both.
• Contributing to how we pitch, price, and position ourselves as a creative business, not just to individual jobs.
• Bringing a point of view on culture, platforms, and formats that shapes where we go next.
• 5+ years in a creative role at a production company, agency, or studio, with a meaningful chunk of that directing.
• A reel that shows range and a recognisable sensibility, not just competence.
• Track record of pitching and winning work at a senior level, including in front of client-side decision makers.
• Comfortable directing at any scale — from a self-shot two-hander to a full crew with stakeholders on set.
• Genuinely good with performance: trained talent, real people, and nervous founders alike.
• Fluent in camera, lens, and lighting language. You can shape a look with your DOP, not just approve one.
• Deep platform literacy across YouTube, TikTok, and Meta, and a clear grasp of how each one changes the way you shoot.
• Commercially aware. You know what a day costs and you design ideas that can actually be made.
• Able to hold several projects at different stages without dropping any of them.
• Generous with credit, direct with feedback, and unbothered about doing the unglamorous parts when it helps the job.
• Global or culturally specific campaigns, especially directing on location or overseas.
• Strong writing: scripts, VO, social concepts.
• Directing efficiently to multiple deliverables and aspect ratios in a single day.
• A trusted little black book of DOPs, editors, producers, and creatives.
• Self-shooting for lean or fast-turnaround work.
• Experience helping build out a creative department as a team grows.
• Direct regularly, not occasionally, with the kit and crew to do it properly.
• Senior enough to shape the work, not just execute someone else's brief.
• A growing company with an appetite for bigger, braver projects — including international work out of Dubai.
• Good culture that backs bold ideas and doesn't dilute them on the way to delivery.
• Work seen by millions, on a reel you'll actually want to show people.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at every level of our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.