Creative Director - Small Business

autodesk; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 261,360; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk’s Flow Studio seeks a Creative Director to define how our product and AI storytelling appear across campaigns, product marketing, and social channels.

You’ll craft a distinct voice, push for world-class craft, and mentor teams to deliver high‑quality work at speed in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated portfolio across brand, product, and social content.
• Experience in media, entertainment, or film is a strong plus.
• Background in fast-moving, content-driven environments.
• Ability to conceive and execute ideas, not just direct.

Responsibilities

• Define the creative standard for all content, visually compelling and credible.
• Establish a point of view on great VFX-driven product storytelling.
• Lead creative direction across campaigns, product marketing, and social content.
• Develop a distinct visual and storytelling language for Flow Studio.
• Translate AI-driven features into human, engaging stories.
• Collaborate with marketing and product to ground creative in real use cases.
• Guide collaboration across disciplines to keep work integrated and fast.

Skills

Brand storytelling

Product storytelling

Social content

Media/film experience

Collaborative teamwork

Job description

Creative Director, Flow Studio

Autodesk builds the tools behind the world around us. From the buildings we live in to the products we use, our customers design and make what’s next, and we power that work.

We’re evolving into a Design and Make platform, connecting the full lifecycle from idea to reality. It’s a shift from standalone tools to a more connected, intelligent system, and it’s changing how things get made.

Within Autodesk, Flow Studio is building a new category at the intersection of AI, creativity, and storytelling.

Why this role exists

Flow Studio sits at the intersection of product and culture. We need a Creative Director who can define how the product shows up in the world, not just through campaigns, but through everything we make.

This role requires a builder mindset. Someone who can create a distinct creative voice, operate at speed, and bring a level of craft that stands out in a crowded AI and creative tools landscape.

What you’ll do

• Define the creative standard for all content—ensuring it is both visually compelling and technically credible
• Establish a clear point of view on what “great” looks like for VFX-driven product storytelling
• Push the team beyond expected formats into more distinctive, category-defining work
• Lead creative direction across campaigns, product marketing, and always‑on social content
• Develop a distinct visual and storytelling language for Flow Studio
• Translate product features, especially AI-driven capabilities, into compelling, human stories
• Partner deeply with marketing and product to ensure creative is grounded in real use cases
• Guide collaboration between technical artists / VFX, design and motion, editorial and copy, ensuring work feels integrated, not handed off between silos
• Bring a strong point of view on film, storytelling, and content formats across platforms
• Build systems that allow us to produce high-quality work at speed, continuously push the work to feel modern, relevant, and culturally aware
• Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback
• Mentor across disciplines (design, VFX, storytelling)
• Build a culture of curiosity, ownership, high standards

What great looks like

• Flow Studio work stands out immediately in a crowded AI and creative tools space
• Creative feels culturally relevant while staying rooted in the product
• We show, not tell. The product is visible, understood, and desirable
• Social content is as considered as campaign work
• The team delivers high-quality work at speed without losing craft; we consistently create work people want to watch, not skip

What you bring

• Strong portfolio across brand, product, and social content
• Experience in media, entertainment, or film is a strong plus
• Background in fast‑moving, content‑driven environments
• Ability to concept and execute, not just direct
• High taste level with attention to detail and storytelling craft
• Understanding of how AI is shaping creative workflows and output
• Comfort working across formats including film, social, digital, and product storytelling
• Collaborative mindset with a bias toward making

About the team

We’re building a fully integrated marketing and creative team designed for how modern products grow. High taste, high velocity, and a clear focus on impact. We believe the best creative comes from teams that care deeply about the product and move fast enough to keep up with it.

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $146,000 and $261,360. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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