Senior Creative Director — Visual Storytelling

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); United States; On-site; USD 149,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage for employees

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Great place to work

Job summary

Abbott in the United States seeks a Creative Director to lead the internal visual storytelling team across video, motion graphics, and photography. You will set the storytelling standards and direct the most important productions personally, building a scalable in-house studio.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, develop workflows, manage budgets, and explore AI production tools to raise quality and speed while staying aligned with healthcare regulations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years as a working director and cinematographer, including founding and running a production company.
• Experience running an in-house video studio for a major healthcare brand.
• 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 storytelling 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, guiding brand teams on when to use film, motion, or photography.
• Direct and shoot priority productions: patient stories, brand films, executive content.
• Lead on set and model the craft; mentor, post via edit, color, sound, and motion design.
• Lead the motion gfx and photography teams to establish a unified visual language.

Skills

Creative leadership

Cinematography

Documentary craft

Team leadership

Platform-specific edits

Presenting to senior leadership

Tools

Camera equipment

Post-production software

Job description

Abbott in the United States seeks a Creative Director to lead the internal visual storytelling team across video, motion graphics, and photography. You will set the storytelling standards and direct the most important productions personally, building a scalable in-house studio.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, develop workflows, manage budgets, and explore AI production tools to raise quality and speed while staying aligned with healthcare regulations.