Responsibilities

• Develop creative concepts, narratives, and treatments for video projects across a range of formats
• Write, refine, and support scripts for founder-led videos, commercials, brand films, launch content, and interviews
• Direct shoots on set, including talent direction, pacing, performance, framing, and creative execution
• Collaborate with producers and cinematographers to define the visual and emotional direction of projects
• Work closely with editors and motion designers through post-production to ensure creative cohesion and quality
• Help elevate Nen’s overall storytelling, creative quality, and directing standards
• Translate abstract ideas into clear, emotionally resonant creative concepts
• Push for stronger work while balancing real-world production timelines and constraints
• Participate in creative reviews, brainstorming, scripting, and internal development conversations
• Adapt creative approaches depending on the client, audience, platform, and project goals

Requirements

• Strong directing and storytelling instincts
• Excellent taste and understanding of visual storytelling, pacing, and emotional impact
• Experience directing commercials, brand films, interviews, documentaries, or narrative work
• Strong scripting, messaging, and narrative development ability
• Comfortable presenting ideas and communicating directly with founders and clients
• Ability to guide non-professional talent and founders on camera
• Deep understanding of how cinematography, editing, motion, sound, and pacing work together creatively
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving production environment with occasional travel and shoot schedules

Benefits

• Be part of a small, fast-growing creative studio trusted by world-class startups and investors
• Work directly with the partners on ambitious, high-impact projects across some of the most interesting companies in tech
• Lead and define the strategy practice at Nen, with real ownership over how we approach the work and how the team grows
• Help shape the brands, narratives, and stories of the next generation of tech companies
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), PTO, and company holidays