AI Art Director: Lead Generative Creative & Storytelling

StackAdapt Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401K/Retirement Savings

Paid time off includes birthday time

Job summary

StackAdapt is seeking an AI Art Director for its Creative Studio. This senior, hands-on role blends creative direction with experimentation in generative AI to elevate AI-powered advertising across campaigns.

You’ll collaborate with Strategy, Production, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to raise creative quality, develop reusable workflows, and coach teammates in AI-assisted production. This remote-first role emphasizes independent, fast-paced delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in creative direction, art direction, filmmaking, or related creative discipline with a strong portfolio.
• Strong expertise in visual storytelling and filmmaking fundamentals.
• Hands‑on experience producing high-quality creative with generative AI image and video technologies.

Responsibilities

• Establish and continually raise the creative quality bar for AI-generated advertising.
• Apply deep creative expertise across concept development, visual storytelling, composition, lighting, movement, pacing, colour, editing, and sound.
• Create high-quality concepts, prototypes, and reference work using emerging generative technologies.
• Work hands-on with leading generative image and video technologies to design, test, and refine creative workflows, including prompting, model selection, reference techniques, and methods for improving quality and consistency.
• Translate creative judgment and experimentation into reusable creative principles, frameworks, workflows, and best practices.
• Develop standards and evaluation methods for assessing AI-generated creative quality, identifying recurring failure patterns, and recommending improvements.
• Evaluate emerging AI models, tools, and creative technologies to determine where they can improve creative quality, efficiency, or unlock new creative possibilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Creative Strategy, Production, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to advance the quality and capabilities of AI-powered creative.
• Develop the AI capabilities of other Creative Studio team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, documentation, and hands‑on collaboration.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Creative Studio by identifying new opportunities for AI to improve how advertising creative is conceived, produced, and evaluated

Skills

Creative direction

Art direction

Filmmaking

Cinematography

Advertising

Generative AI

Prompt engineering

Team collaboration

Autonomy

Tools

ComfyUI

Weavy

Job description

StackAdapt is seeking an AI Art Director for its Creative Studio. This senior, hands-on role blends creative direction with experimentation in generative AI to elevate AI-powered advertising across campaigns.

You’ll collaborate with Strategy, Production, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to raise creative quality, develop reusable workflows, and coach teammates in AI-assisted production. This remote-first role emphasizes independent, fast-paced delivery.