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
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