Art Director

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Art Director advancing AI-powered advertising creative at StackAdapt, a programmatic marketing technology company. Developing generative AI workflows, visual concepts, and quality standards across creative and technical teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish and continually raise the creative quality bar for AI-generated advertising
  • Apply deep creative expertise across concept development, visual storytelling, composition, lighting, movement, pacing, colour, editing, and sound
  • Create high-quality concepts, prototypes, and reference work using emerging generative technologies
  • Work hands-on with leading generative image and video technologies to design, test, and refine creative workflows, including prompting, model selection, reference techniques, and methods for improving quality and consistency
  • Translate creative judgment and experimentation into reusable creative principles, frameworks, workflows, and best practices
  • Develop standards and evaluation methods for assessing AI-generated creative quality, identifying recurring failure patterns, and recommending improvements
  • Evaluate emerging AI models, tools, and creative technologies to determine where they can improve creative quality, efficiency, or unlock new creative possibilities
  • Collaborate with Creative Strategy, Production, Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams
  • Develop the AI capabilities of Creative Studio team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, documentation, and hands-on collaboration
  • Identify new opportunities for AI to improve how advertising creative is conceived, produced, and evaluated

Requirements:

  • Significant professional experience in creative direction, art direction, filmmaking, cinematography, advertising, or a related creative discipline, with a strong portfolio of work
  • Strong expertise in visual storytelling and filmmaking fundamentals, including composition, lighting, camera movement, pacing, editing, and narrative structure
  • Hands-on experience producing high-quality creative with generative AI image and video technologies
  • Experience developing sophisticated AI creative workflows; familiarity with node-based workflow environments such as ComfyUI, Weavy, or similar systems is strongly preferred
  • Strong prompt engineering skills and an understanding of how prompting, reference inputs, model selection, and workflow design influence creative output
  • Excellent creative judgment, with the ability to articulate why creative work succeeds or falls short and provide clear direction for improvement
  • Experience developing AI-assisted creative workflows and an understanding of how prompting, model selection, references, and iteration influence creative output
  • Strong systems thinking, with an ability to turn creative experimentation and intuition into repeatable approaches and best practices
  • Comfort working autonomously, learning rapidly, and collaborating across creative and technical teams in a fast-changing environment

Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
  • Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
  • Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
  • Health benefits from day one of employment
  • Work from home reimbursements
  • Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
  • Robust training and onboarding program
  • Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
  • Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
  • An awesome parental leave program
  • A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
  • Our social and team events!