Creative Director, AI VFX

This is a Full Time Job

The Creative Director is the creative authority of Stage 31 AFX, Warner Bros. Discovery's internal AI-centered VFX facility, reporting to the Facility Managing Director. The Creative Director faces directors, showrunners, and studio-side VFX supervisors, sets the creative and technical approach for every package the facility takes on, and internally approves every frame before it is presented to a client. This role carries the facility's reputation, it is what makes an AI-centered shop credible as WBD's internal equivalent of a premier VFX house. All work operates under the facility's provenance and human-in-the-loop governance framework.

Your Role Accountabilities...

Creative Leadership and Client Facing
• Serve as the primary creative liaison to directors, showrunners, and production-side VFX supervisors from prep through final delivery
• Break down scripts and sequences, set shot methodology, and decide where AI tooling, human craft, or external vendors carry each shot

Review and Approval
• Internally approve all work before client presentation; own the dailies and review cadence with the Head of Finaling

On-Set Supervision
• Supervise on set for facility-carried sequences, protecting plates and data capture for AI-assisted workflows

Pipeline and Standards
• Partner with the Lead Pipeline Architect on which tools are creatively acceptable for final pixels
• Mentor AI Workflow Supervisors and senior generalists on creative standards

Qualifications & Experiences...
• 12+ years in visual effects with supervisor credits on studio features or premium episodic
• Deep compositing or CG background with strong on-set experience
• Hands-on familiarity with current AI/ML tooling in production contexts and clear judgment about its limits
• History of direct, successful relationships with directors and studio creative executives
• Comfort operating under a provenance and human-in-the-loop governance framework
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to mentor senior artists

Not Required but preferred experience:
• Experience standing up a new facility, department, or creative team
• Working knowledge of guild agreements and current AI provisions across IATSE, the Animation Guild, and SAG-AFTRA
• Experience supervising across both feature and premium episodic slates

Some Important Details

We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit.