Freelance Video-First Creative Director for Campaigns

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

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.