Lead Visual Storytelling Director

Thornton Tomasetti; United States; On-site; USD 149,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott's internal visual storytelling team seeks a Creative Director to own the craft across video, motion graphics and photography. You will set standards, lead high-impact productions on set, and mentor a growing team.

This role directs patient stories, brand films, and executive content, guiding post with color, sound, and motion design, and partnering with social teams to tailor edits for each platform.

Qualifications

• Experience running an in-house video studio for a major healthcare brand.
• 15+ years as a working director and cinematographer, including founding and running a production company for national brands.
• Deep documentary craft: interviewing real people, finding true moments, building emotion without a script.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams, including editors, motion designers, and photographers.
• Experience making platform-specific edits and working with social teams on content built for the feed.
• Comfortable in regulated healthcare review.
• Strong presenter who can sell creative to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the creative vision and standards for video, motion, and photography the team produces.
• Review treatments, edits, and final work; hold the quality bar on everything that ships.
• Act as the senior creative voice on visual storytelling across Abbott, helping brand teams figure out when film, motion, or photography is the right tool and how to use it well.
• Direct and shoot priority productions: patient stories, brand films, executive content.
• Lead on set and model the craft, from documentary interviewing to cinematography, so the whole team levels up.
• Guide post through edit, color, sound, and motion design.
• Lead the motion GFX and photography team(s): set one visual language across film, motion, and stills.
• Develop editors, animators, and photographers with the same hands-on coaching as the film side.
• Platform-native storytelling: tailor edits per platform and scale lighter, faster social productions.

Skills

Creative leadership

Storytelling

Video direction

Cinematography

On-set direction

Motion graphics

Photography

Leadership

Job description

Abbott's internal visual storytelling team seeks a Creative Director to own the craft across video, motion graphics and photography. You will set standards, lead high-impact productions on set, and mentor a growing team.

This role directs patient stories, brand films, and executive content, guiding post with color, sound, and motion design, and partnering with social teams to tailor edits for each platform.