Creative Director, Visual Storytelling

Responsibilities

• Lead Abbott's internal visual storytelling team, spanning video, motion graphics, and photography, and own the creative quality of the work across all of it.
• Review treatments, edits, and final work; hold the quality bar on everything that ships.
• Act as the senior creative voice on visual storytelling across Abbott, helping brand teams figure out when film, motion, or photography is the right tool and how to use it well.
• Direct and shoot priority productions: patient stories, brand films, executive content.
• Lead on set and model the craft, from documentary interviewing to cinematography, so the whole team levels up.
• Guide post through edit, color, sound, and motion design.
• Lead the motion GFX and photography team(s): set one visual language across film, motion, and stills, with the same documentary honesty throughout.
• Develop editors, animators, and photographers with the same hands-on coaching as the film side.
• Every platform gets its own edit, designed at the treatment stage, never cut down after the fact.
• Set craft standards for vertical and sound-off viewing, including how stories open in the first two seconds.

Requirements

• Experience running an in-house video studio for a major healthcare brand: leading a team, setting standards, and delivering high volume across business lines (portfolio required)
• 15+ years as a working director and cinematographer, including founding and running a production company for national brands
• Deep documentary craft: interviewing real people, finding true moments, building emotion without a script
• Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams, including editors, motion designers, and photographers
• Experience making platform-specific edits and working with social teams on content built for the feed
• Comfortable in regulated healthcare review
• Strong presenter who can sell creative to senior leadership

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists