Creative Director - Video/Film

3Search; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 108 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

3Search is opening a New York-based studio and seeks a Creative Director to shape its early creative voice. You’ll lead video-led storytelling for high-profile sports, entertainment and culture projects, from concept to delivery, with a hands-on approach.

This hybrid role requires owning ideas, collaborating with filmmakers, editors and designers, and guiding the team through ambitious timelines. You’ll help recruit and define the studio's creative culture as it expands in New York.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of video-led work with clear ownership of concepts.
• Instinct for pace, emotion, culture, and audience attention.
• Confidence to present ideas and explain why they’ll work.
• Experience collaborating with makers and meeting real deadlines.
• Practical, resourceful approach to moving ideas forward.
• Curiosity and deep interest in the craft.

Responsabilités

• Develop bold, original concepts for social content, brand films, sports promos and commercial projects.
• Turn those ideas into clear, compelling narratives that get clients excited.
• Partner closely with filmmakers, editors, designers and producers from concept through delivery.
• Bring a sharp understanding of culture, digital audiences and what makes video connect.
• Stay close to the craft, helping the team push the work while keeping projects moving.
• Contribute across client accounts and help shape the creative culture of a growing New York studio.
• Bring your own ideas, references and techniques—and create space for great ideas from anyone in the team.

Connaissances

Video storytelling

Portfolio ownership

Pace & emotion

Audience attention

Presentation of ideas

Collaboration with makers

Description du poste

New York | Hybrid, 3–4 days in the studio once open | Up to $180k

Make work people feel.

A growing creative and film studio is opening in New York and looking for a Creative Director to help shape what comes next.

The studio creates high-impact films for some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and culture. From social edits and launch films to broadcast commercials and documentaries, everything starts with brilliant creative.

The model is simple: the people who develop the idea stay close to making it. Filmmakers, editors, designers and producers work together in-house, taking projects from the first concept through to final delivery.

Fewer handoffs. More ownership. Exceptional work, made at pace.

The opportunity

You’ll help establish the studio’s creative presence in New York, working with the founders and an international team to create films that cut through.

This is a role for someone who lives in video. Someone who understands how to build anticipation, create an emotional hook and tell a story that makes people stop scrolling.

You’ll have room to shape the idea, sell the vision and stay involved as it becomes something real.

What you’ll do

• Develop bold, original concepts for social content, brand films, sports promos and commercial projects.
• Turn those ideas into clear, compelling narratives that get clients excited.
• Partner closely with filmmakers, editors, designers and producers from concept through delivery.
• Bring a sharp understanding of culture, digital audiences and what makes video connect.
• Stay close to the craft, helping the team push the work while keeping projects moving.
• Contribute across client accounts and help shape the creative culture of a growing New York studio.
• Bring your own ideas, references and techniques—and create space for great ideas from anyone in the team.

What we’re looking for

You could already be a Creative Director, or an Associate Creative Director or Creative Lead ready for more ownership.

Your background might be in a social-first agency, sports broadcaster, entertainment business, creative studio or digital platform. You may have built your craft through filmmaking, editing or creating content yourself.

What matters is the work you’ve made and the part you played in making it.

You’ll bring:

• A strong portfolio of video-led creative, with clear ownership of concepts and storytelling.
• An instinct for pace, emotion, cultural relevance and audience attention.
• The confidence to present ideas and explain why they’ll work.
• Experience collaborating with makers and delivering ambitious work within real deadlines.
• A practical, resourceful approach: you know how to move an idea forward with the team around you.
• Curiosity, initiative and a deep interest in the craft.

Hands‑on editing or filmmaking skills would be a real plus. Experience in sport or entertainment is valuable, but strong, relevant work can come from different places.

Creative is the studio’s currency. Better work wins bigger briefs, which creates room to bring in exceptional people and make even better work.

The business is growing, with established international clients and demand for more creative capacity. You’ll join at a formative point in its New York expansion, with access to major brands, close collaboration with the founders and the opportunity to influence both the output and how the studio develops.

The details

• New York-based, with a studio opening planned and an expectation of 3–4 days together each week once established.
• Salary will reflect the experience and capability you bring.
• Open to permanent appointments, with interim or freelance-to-permanent arrangements also considered.