Associate Creative Director

SharkNinja; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Product discounts

Referral bonus program

Job summary

SharkNinja Studios seeks an Associate Creative Director, Content Studio to lead visual development for campaigns before filming. You’ll own moodboards, style boards, and pre-production decks, defining wardrobe, set design, lighting, and overall tone while translating scripts into clear visual concepts.

You will partner with producers, directors, DPs, editors and VFX teams, shaping the look for product sizzles, social demos, and paid media.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in art/creative direction, visual development or related role.
• Experience with moodboards, style boards, visual territories, and pre-production packages.
• Strong typography, layout, and visual consistency across assets.
• Experience supporting live-action video, product demos, social content, or campaigns.
• Ability to work across directors, editors, designers, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Own visual development across campaigns, including moodboards and pre-production decks.
• Create graphic style guides for typography, layouts, and visual systems.
• Translate scripts and demos into visual concepts for easy execution.
• Support Global Creative Director on product sizzles, paid media, and retail content.
• Board concepts, sequence moments, hooks, and key visual beats.
• Collaborate with producers, DPs, editors, designers, and CG/VFX teams.
• Assist in wardrobe, location scouting, props, and art department alignment.
• Develop social-first visual approaches and platform-native framing.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate concept development and production planning.
• Maintain quality control across visual development and execution.

Skills

Art direction

Creative direction

Visual development

Video production

Design

Branded content

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

AI creative tools

Job description

SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than4,100associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

About the Role

SharkNinja Studios is looking for an Associate Creative Director, Content Studio to help bring campaigns to life before a frame is shot.

What You'll Do

Own visual development across campaigns, including moodboards, style boards, visual territories, frame references, and pre-production decks covering wardrobe, set design, set dressing, props, lighting, color, texture, casting references, and overall visual tone.

Create graphic style guides that define typography, supers, claims treatment, layouts, motion references, iconography, and visual systems for video and social content.

Translate scripts, product demos, and creative direction into visual concepts that make the idea easier to understand and execute.

Support the Global Creative Director in shaping the look and feel of product sizzles, social-first demos, paid media, retail content, and supporting photography.

Assist in boarding out concepts, demo sequences, product moments, opening frames, hooks, and key visual beats.

Partner with producers, directors, DPs, editors, designers, motion teams, CG/VFX artists, stylists, set designers, and external partners to ensure the creative intent is understood and executed.

Support casting selects, wardrobe direction, location scouting, prop direction, set dressing, and art department alignment.

Help develop social-first visual approaches, including thumbnail thinking, opening frames, vertical compositions, platform-native framing, and alternate visual treatments.

Use AI and emerging tools to accelerate visual exploration, concept development, style frames, storyboards, set visualization, and production planning.

Maintain quality control across visual development and execution, catching gaps before they become production or post-production issues.

What You Bring

6+ years of experience in art direction, creative direction, visual development, branded content, video production, design, or a related creative role.

Deep experience creating moodboards, style boards, visual territories, frame references, set design references, wardrobe direction, and pre-production creative packages.

Strong understanding of typography, layout, supers, claims, motion references, and visual consistency across campaign assets.

Ability to quickly identify what feels premium, ownable, clear, and on-brand.

Experience supporting live-action video production, product demos, social content, paid media, retail content, and/or campaign shoots.

Experience collaborating with directors, DPs, editors, designers, motion designers, CG/VFX teams, stylists, producers, and external creative partners.

Working knowledge of AI creative tools, Adobe Creative Suite, presentation building, and modern production workflows.

Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-output studio environment without losing craft or attention to detail.

Who You Are

You are an art-first creative with strong storytelling instincts.

You have great taste and know how to make an idea visible, ownable, and executable.

You are fluent in moodboards, style boards, set design, wardrobe, graphics, visual references, and pre-production storytelling.

You understand that visual development is not decoration. It is how teams align, make decisions, and protect the idea before production begins.

You know how to support both premium production and scrappy, platform-native social execution.

You can think in hero frames, opening hooks, demo clarity, and campaign worlds.

You bring clarity, taste, and speed without creating unnecessary swirl.

You collaborate well across disciplines and help teams understand what great looks like.

Success Looks Like

SharkNinja Studios has stronger visual development before every major production.

Campaigns feel clearer, sharper, more ownable, and easier to execute because the team understands the world, tone, look, and visual system before the shoot begins.

Product sizzles, social demos, paid media, retail assets, and supporting photography feel more connected, more polished, and more platform-aware.

The Global Creative Director has a true visual partner who can move quickly, build alignment, reduce ambiguity, and help the team make better creative decisions from ideation through final delivery.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.

Pay Range

$114,200 - $196,200 USD

Our Culture

At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.

What We Offer

We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible. When you join, you’re not just part of a company—you’re part of an outrageously extraordinary community. To gether, we won’t just launch products— we’ll disrupt entire markets.

At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture [e-mail]

As part of our recruitment and hiring process, SharkNinja may use AI-powered tools, including tools that transcribe and summarize recordings of interviews, flag potential application fraud, and rank applications against role requirements. A member of our recruiting team always reviews these tools' output before any decision is made about your application - none of them make hiring decisions on their own. To learn more about how these tools work, your rights, and any notices that apply to your location, see our Candidate Privacy Notice .

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At SharkNinja, we take pride in our uniqueness. Our innovation extends beyond our products to the way we work, embracing diversity as a cornerstone of our success. We recognize that our differences make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. Our workforce should reflect the diversity of our customer base, which is why our recruitment commitment is to truly be an exemplary, equal opportunity employer, fostering a welcoming and inclusive workplace.

We are looking for you as a valued candidate, to help us achieve our commitment by participating in this short questionnaire. You can choose if you want to complete the questions, if you do your answers will help us to ensure our hiring practices are inclusive, and in return we commit to treating the information you provide with respect by applying technical measures to your response to remove it from your candidate record.

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As part of our recruitment and hiring process, SharkNinja may use AI-powered tools, including tools that transcribe and summarize recordings of interviews, flag potential application fraud, and rank applications against role requirements. A member of our recruiting team always reviews these tools' output before any decision is made about your application - none of them make hiring decisions on their own. To learn more about how these tools work, your rights, and any notices that apply to your location, see our Candidate Privacy Notice .