Creative Director – Art – Video & Campaigns (Contract)

Pace; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 96,432 - 192,864; Full time

Job summary

Pace is seeking a freelance Creative Director (Art) to lead video-first campaign ideas, social video and visual concepts, and client-ready presentations. You’ll turn strategic briefs into strong concepts across video, motion, social, and digital channels, building decks, storyboards, and treatments while guiding production and post to deliver the idea.

This hands-on role requires campaign thinking, brand discipline, and the ability to present or support senior leads.

Qualifications

• Strong campaign thinker with sharp visual instincts and a problem-solving mindset.
• Hands-on art director who can build concepts, boards, and decks within brand guidelines.
• Video-fluent creative who understands how ideas come to life on screen and what performs in social.
• Strong storyteller who can shape scripts, supers, VO, and narrative flow.
• Confident presenter who can support senior leads or present independently when needed.
• Collaborative partner able to work with writers, strategists, producers, editors, designers, account teams, and clients.
• Practical creative lead who understands shoots, post‑production, motion, tight timelines, and real budgets.

Responsibilities

• Video-led mini-campaigns and social-first concepts.
• Campaign visual direction.
• Storyboards, mood boards, pitch decks, and video treatments.
• Script and VO approaches.
• Creative guidance for production and post.

Skills

Campaign thinker

Hands-on art director

Video-fluent creative

Strong storyteller

Confident presenter

Collaborative partner

Practical creative lead

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

Pace is looking to connect with freelance Creative Directors (Art) who can lead the development of video‑first campaign ideas, social video and visual concepts, and client‑ready creative presentations.

Brief Description

This is a contract position and an active LLC is required. A hands‑on role that turns a strategic brief into strong concepts for content, campaigns, and integrated programs across video, motion, social, and digital channels. The right person can brainstorm campaign and social approaches, build pitch decks, create storyboards, shape scripts, present the work, and stay close to production and post to ensure the final product delivers on the original idea. This is not a “big‑picture only” creative role: we seek experienced idea generators and video‑first thinkers who can dream up big ideas based on strategic insights and client needs, then develop the presentations that sell them in. Some projects may expand into a broader freelance creative leadership role, helping to produce and deliver final products.

What you’ll help create

• Video‑led mini‑campaigns and social‑first concepts
• Campaign visual direction
• Storyboards, mood boards, pitch decks, and video treatments
• Script and VO approaches
• Creative guidance for production and post

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• A strong campaign thinker with sharp visual instincts and a problem‑solving mindset
• A hands‑on art director who can build concepts, boards, and decks within brand guidelines
• A video‑fluent creative who understands how ideas come to life on screen and what performs in social
• A strong storyteller who can help shape scripts, supers, VO, and narrative flow
• A confident presenter who can support senior leads or present independently when needed
• A collaborative partner who can work with writers, strategists, producers, editors, designers, account teams, and clients
• A practical creative lead who understands shoots, post‑production, motion, tight timelines, and real budgets

Job Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in creative direction, art direction, campaign development, video, branded content, advertising, or agency work
• Strong portfolio with examples of campaign concepts, pitch decks, storyboards, video treatments, reels, boards, or motion‑led creative
• Experience developing video‑first or motion‑led ideas from brief through execution
• Strong visual storytelling, art direction, and presentation skills
• In‑depth knowledge of video production, shoot planning, editing, motion graphics, and post‑production workflows
• Ability to write or shape scripts, supers, VO, headlines, and concept language
• Experience presenting to clients and collaborating with cross‑functional teams
• Comfort working in fast‑moving agency environments with shifting inputs, timelines, and feedback
• Motion graphics experience is a plus, but not required

Portfolio Request

Please include work that shows how you think and how you make. We’re especially interested in campaign concepts, social video concepts, storyboards, video treatments, pitch decks, and finished video or campaign work.

About Pace

Pace is a leading integrated marketing agency & digital storytelling powerhouse. We specialize in brand storytelling and deliver results by continually creating better customer experiences for our clients. We connect the dots across an integrated marketing ecosystem using our six key service areas: strategy, creative, media, social, technology, and analytics.

Inclusive Hiring

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Pace we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace, so if you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we urge you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have available.

Pace is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Pace does not discriminate against employees or job applicants based on age, ancestry, color, religious creed, race, sex, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, national origin, marital status, disability status, military or veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal or state statutes.