ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

About the role

SharkNinja Studios is seeking an Associate Creative Director, Content Studio to bring campaigns to life before a frame is shot. This role requires strong taste, visual judgment, and storytelling instincts to translate briefs, scripts, product stories, demos, and campaign direction into clear visual worlds.

Responsibilities

• Own visual development across campaigns, including moodboards, style boards, visual territories, frame references, and pre-production decks covering wardrobe, set design, set dressing, props, lighting, color, texture, casting references, and overall visual tone.
• Create graphic style guides that define typography, supers, claims treatment, layouts, motion references, iconography, and visual systems for video and social content.
• Translate scripts, product demos, and creative direction into visual concepts that make the idea easier to understand and execute.
• Support the Global Creative Director in shaping the look and feel of product sizzles, social-first demos, paid media, retail content, and supporting photography.
• Assist in boarding out concepts, demo sequences, product moments, opening frames, hooks, and key visual beats.
• Partner with producers, directors, DPs, editors, designers, motion teams, CG/VFX artists, stylists, set designers, and external partners to ensure the creative intent is understood and executed.
• Support casting selects, wardrobe direction, location scouting, prop direction, set dressing, and art department alignment.
• Help develop social-first visual approaches, including thumbnail thinking, opening frames, vertical compositions, platform-native framing, and alternate visual treatments.
• Use AI and emerging tools to accelerate visual exploration, concept development, style frames, storyboards, set visualization, and production planning.
• Maintain quality control across visual development and execution, catching gaps before they become production or post-production issues.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in art direction, creative direction, visual development, branded content, video production, design, or a related creative role.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent taste, visual storytelling, moodboards, style boards, campaign development, video content, social content, and/or art direction.
• Deep experience creating moodboards, style boards, visual territories, frame references, set design references, wardrobe direction, and pre-production creative packages.
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, supers, claims, motion references, and visual consistency across campaign assets.
• Ability to quickly identify what feels premium, ownable, clear, and on-brand.
• Experience supporting live-action video production, product demos, social content, paid media, retail content, and/or campaign shoots.
• Experience collaborating with directors, DPs, editors, designers, motion designers, CG/VFX teams, stylists, producers, and external creative partners.
• Working knowledge of AI creative tools, Adobe Creative Suite, presentation building, and modern production workflows.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-output studio environment without losing craft or attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Fluent in moodboards, style boards, set design, wardrobe, graphics, visual references, and pre-production storytelling.
• Understanding that visual development is not decoration but how teams align, make decisions, and protect the idea before production begins.
• Knowledge of both premium production and scrappy, platform-native social execution.
• Ability to think in hero frames, opening hooks, demo clarity, and campaign worlds.
• Collaborative nature with the ability to help teams understand what great looks like.

Skills

• Art direction
• Visual development
• Branded content creation
• Video production
• Design

Benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $114,200—$196,200 USD. Additional benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA), 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.