Senior Director

Plotsy; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Plotsy is seeking a Senior Director to raise the craft standard across all productions. You will lead Elite Directing, mentor Director Editors, and bridge creative intuition with scalable standards.

You will define metrics, enforce quality gates, and partner with engineers to evolve the AI pipeline while ensuring consistently excellent, cohesive scenes across titles. Your leadership will shape multi-title workflows and drive production excellence.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience directing finished, long-form narrative content.
• Hands-on editing mastery with major NLEs.

Responsibilities

• Direct and assemble-cut narrative scenes to the highest benchmark.
• Command AI model outputs for emotional registers, eyelines, lipsync.
• Take over complex blocking or heavy dialogue scenes where standard prompting fails.
• Critique Director Editors' work early to catch errors.
• Lead hands-on, screen-shared coaching sessions.
• Keep the craft bar consistent across different titles.

Skills

Narrative Directing

NLE Proficiency

Generative AI

Creative critique

Standards-based thinking

Deadline discipline

Radical candor

Tools

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Avid

Job description

Your mission is to set the absolute craft standard for scene work across all Plotsy productions and build the directors who meet it. While a traditional Director Editor simply makes the scenes they are assigned, the Senior Director ensures that every single scene Plotsy produces is excellent, cohesive, and crafted by a team that is continuously improving. You bridge the gap between creative intuition and objective, scalable standards.

How You Will Spend Your Time

• 40% Elite Directing & Execution: Personally cracking the hardest sequences, handling heavy dialogue, and directing style-setting pilot episodes.
• 40% Mentorship & Coaching: Reviewing Director Editors' work, running live screen-share training, and leading role-specific talent acquisition.
• 20% Standards & Process Ownership: Defining written craft metrics, enforcing quality gates, and partnering with engineers to evolve the AI pipeline.

Daily Responsibilities

• Generate Elite Scenes: Direct and assembly-cut narrative scenes to the highest benchmark in the company.
• Refine Model Performance: Command high-precision AI model outputs for emotional registers, eyelines, and lipsync.
• Bypass Prompt Limits: Take over complex blocking or heavy dialogue scenes where standard prompting fails.
• Conduct Scene Reviews: Critique Director Editors' work early to catch errors while they are cheap to fix.
• Lead Live Training: Run hands-on, screen-shared coaching sessions while narrating your creative decisions.
• Drive Alignment: Keep the craft bar consistent across different titles, regardless of which director is assigned.
• Document Standards: Author clear, objective definitions of what "approved" work looks like with real pass/fail examples.
• Enforce Quality Gates: Hold the line on quality under tight deadlines, escalating schedule costs to the Showrunner and CPO when necessary.
• Optimize the Pipeline: Feed successful directing workflows to the Principal AI Production Engineer to upgrade production rulesets.

What You Must Bring

• Narrative Directing Body of Work: Substantial experience directing finished, long-form narrative content (not just fragments).
• NLE Editorial Proficiency: Genuine, hands-on assembly cutting mastery in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Avid.
• Generative Tool Mastery: Deep experience with AI video/image platforms, reference conditioning, seed management, and artifact cleanup.
• Flawless Performance Instinct: The ability to instantly spot a false performance, name the exact failure, and teach someone how to fix it.
• Standards-Based Thinking: The skill to turn subjective creative taste into actionable, objective written criteria.
• Deadline Discipline : The judgment to know exactly when a scene lands so production schedules stay on track.
• Radical Candor: The ability to tell a talented creator their work isn't landing in a way that makes them better rather than defensive.