Creative Director – Art – Video & Campaigns (Contract)

POSITION SUMMARY

PACE is looking to connect with freelance Creative Directors (Art) who can lead the development of video-first campaign ideas, social video and visual concepts, and client-ready creative presentations. This is a contract position and an active LLC is required. This is a hands-on role for someone who can turn a strategic brief into strong concepts for content, campaigns, and integrated programs across video, motion, social, and digital channels. The right person can brainstorm campaign and social approaches, build pitch decks, create storyboards, shape scripts, present the work, and stay close to production and post so the final product delivers on the original idea. This is not a “big-picture only” creative role. We’re looking for experienced idea generators and video-first thinkers who can dream up big ideas based on strategic insights and client needs, and then develop the presentations that sell them in. Some projects may also expand into a broader freelance creative leadership role, helping to produce and deliver final products.

Essential Functions

• Help create video-led mini-campaigns and social-first concepts
• Develop campaign visual direction
• Create storyboards, mood boards, pitch decks, and video treatments
• Shape script and VO approaches
• Provide creative guidance for production and post

Requirements

• A strong campaign thinker with sharp visual instincts and a problem-solving mindset
• A hands-on art director who can build concepts, boards, and decks within brand guidelines
• A video-fluent creative who understands how ideas come to life on screen and what performs in social
• A strong storyteller who can help shape scripts, supers, VO, and narrative flow
• A confident presenter who can support senior leads or present independently when needed
• A collaborative partner who can work with writers, strategists, producers, editors, designers, account teams, and clients
• A practical creative lead who understands shoots, post-production, motion, tight timelines, and real budgets

Job Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in creative direction, art direction, campaign development, video, branded content, advertising, or agency work
• A strong portfolio with examples of campaign concepts, pitch decks, storyboards, video treatments, reels, boards, or motion-led creative
• Experience developing video-first or motion-led ideas from brief through execution
• In-depth knowledge of video production, shoot planning, editing, motion graphics, and post-production workflows
• Ability to write or shape scripts, supers, VO, headlines, and concept language
• Experience presenting to clients and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Comfort working in fast-moving agency environments with shifting inputs, timelines, and feedback
• Motion graphics experience is a plus, but not required

We want to see your portfolio! Please include work that shows how you think and how you make. We’re especially interested in campaign concepts, social video concepts, storyboards, video treatments, pitch decks, and finished video or campaign work.

About PACE

Pace is a leading integrated marketing agency & digital storytelling powerhouse. We specialize in brand storytelling and deliver results by continually creating better customer experiences for our clients. We connect the dots across an integrated marketing ecosystem using our six key service areas: strategy, creative, media, social, technology, and analytics.