Director of Visuals, New Business

Your New Role

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Accountabilities

• Define and lead the overarching creative vision for New Business editorial experiences, establishing a cohesive yet flexible identity across a portfolio of products.
• Develop a distinct visuals strategy for each product, ensuring they are differentiated, memorable, and aligned with their editorial purpose and audience.
• Work closely alongside editorial, product, and experience design partners to create the visual expression of our editorial voice and product vision, establishing a set of creative principles that can scale across different mediums and formats.
• Lead visual ideation at the earliest stages of editorial and product planning, helping to navigate a path through ambiguity into clearly defined visual guidelines that establish standards and best practices for video, photography, illustration, and mixed-media.
• Set and uphold a high creative bar, using judgment and taste to shape work at a conceptual level.
• Oversee and collaborate with design, video, photo, and production partners across the organization, guiding with a clear visual direction and providing constructive feedback when necessary.
• Build and maintain a diverse network of photographers, illustrators, and visual artists, managing all commissioning and workflows of production including internal assignments, sourcing, and licensing.
• Oversee contracts, photo fees, and usage rights with internal and external stakeholders, tracking and maintaining the overall creative budget.
• Ensure clear, proactive communication around visual direction, execution, and delivery, aligning internal teams with brand partners and vendors.

Qualifications & Experience

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience in creative direction, brand leadership, or visual storytelling, with a strong foundation in media or culturally relevant consumer products.
• A portfolio that demonstrates a clear and distinctive creative point of view, with experience building or evolving brands or creative systems.
• A deep understanding of how creative expression translates across digital platforms, including product, video, and social.
• A proven ability to operate at a strategic level, shaping vision and guiding teams to produce visuals in multi-media formats, with particular emphasis on video and photo direction.
• A strong creative judgment and the ability to articulate direction clearly and persuasively to cross-functional partners.

How We Get Things Done

At WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day.

Compensation

Pay Range: $140,000.00 - $260,000.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.