Associate Director – Creative Video & Production, Global Communications

Responsibilities

• Set and elevate the creative direction for video and motion storytelling, translating strategy and ideas into compelling, on-brand content across channels and formats.
• Direct and produce end-to-end video—concepting, scripting, shooting, editing, motion graphics, and finishing—maintaining a consistently high creative bar.
• Coordinate production across the studio, running the pipeline from intake through delivery and helping the team move with newsroom-paced speed against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge.
• Craft platform-native video, from short-form social and vertical formats to long-form, executive, and event content, optimized for each channel and audience.
• Partner with the masterbrand team to carry Lilly’s visual identity into motion, ensuring video output is cohesive, recognizable, and evolves how the brand shows up on screen.
• Provide creative direction and guidance to video producers, project teams, and contract creatives, raising the craft and consistency of the work without direct line management.
• Help build and steward a network of contract videographers, editors, and motion talent, including sourcing, scoping, directing, and quality-checking external work to scale production as needed.
• Partner with content, design, and channel teams to bring integrated stories to life with video that is audience-centric and optimized for impact.
• Bring emerging production techniques and generative AI video tools expanding what’s possible and accelerating production without compromising craft or brand safety.
• Build accessibility and brand-safe practices into every output—accounting for captioning, audio description, color contrast, motion sensitivity, IP-cleared footage and music, and talent/likeness rights—so video work meets enterprise standards by design, not by exception.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Film Production, Video, Digital Media, Communications, or a related creative field.
• 7+ years of experience in video production and direction, within a corporate, agency, or in-house creative environment.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Preferred

• Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment—such as a newsroom, a regulated or healthcare organization, or a high-profile consumer brand—where speed, judgment, and craft are paramount.
• Outstanding reel demonstrating directing and editing craft across short-form, social, and long-form video, with a focus on storytelling.
• Command of industry-standard video production and post-production tools (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects); fluency with DaVinci Resolve, motion/3D tools (e.g., Cinema 4D, Blender), or social-native production tools (e.g., CapCut) is a plus.
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools for video and motion (e.g., Runway, Sora, Adobe Firefly, ElevenLabs) for ideation, pre-visualization, and asset generation—with a clear point of view on where they fit in a brand-safe workflow.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (captioning, audio description, color contrast, motion sensitivity) and brand-safe video practices, including IP-cleared footage and music, and talent/likeness considerations.
• Hands-on capability across the full production process—pre-production, shooting, lighting and audio, editing, and motion.
• Experience overseeing production workflows and pipelines, including running schedules, intake, and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Validated ability to direct and produce video in partnership with a masterbrand and visual identity.
• Experience directing and quality-checking the work of other producers and external partners.
• Experience working across global, multi-market teams and an understanding of how regional context and culture shape creative.

Benefits

• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
• 401(k) plan eligibility
• dependent care flexible spending accounts
• healthcare flexible spending accounts
• life insurance and death benefits