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With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.\nThe AI Art Director sits within Creative Studio and helps define and advance the quality of AI-powered creative across StackAdapt. This is a senior, hands-on creative role for someone who combines exceptional creative judgment with deep experience in visual storytelling, filmmaking, creative production, and generative AI.\nYou will explore emerging creative technologies, develop high-quality creative approaches and workflows, and help establish what great AI-powered advertising looks like. The role combines creative direction with hands-on experimentation and close collaboration across creative and technical teams.\nAs generative technology evolves, so will this role. We're looking for someone who is excited by emerging creative possibilities, can move fluidly between creative direction and experimentation, and enjoys turning what they learn into practices and knowledge that make the broader team better.\nStackAdapt is a remote first company. \nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nEstablish and continually raise the creative quality bar for AI-generated advertising.\nApply deep creative expertise across concept development, visual storytelling, composition, lighting, movement, pacing, colour, editing, and sound.\nCreate high-quality concepts, prototypes, and reference work using emerging generative technologies.\nWork hands-on with leading generative image and video technologies to design, test, and refine creative workflows, including prompting, model selection, reference techniques, and methods for improving quality and consistency.\nTranslate creative judgment and experimentation into reusable creative principles, frameworks, workflows, and best practices.\nDevelop standards and evaluation methods for assessing AI-generated creative quality, identifying recurring failure patterns, and recommending improvements.\nEvaluate emerging AI models, tools, and creative technologies to determine where they can improve creative quality, efficiency, or unlock new creative possibilities.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams including Creative Strategy, Production, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to advance the quality and capabilities of AI-powered creative.\nDevelop the AI capabilities of other Creative Studio team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, documentation, and hands-on collaboration.\nContribute to the ongoing evolution of Creative Studio by identifying new opportunities for AI to improve how advertising creative is conceived, produced, and evaluated\nWhat You'll Bring to the Table\nSignificant professional experience in creative direction, art direction, filmmaking, cinematography, advertising, or a related creative discipline, with a strong portfolio of work.\nStrong expertise in visual storytelling and filmmaking fundamentals, including composition, lighting, camera movement, pacing, editing, and narrative structure.\nHands-on experience producing high-quality creative with generative AI image and video technologies.\nExperience developing sophisticated AI creative workflows; familiarity with node-based workflow environments such as ComfyUI, Weavy, or similar systems is strongly preferred.\nStrong prompt engineering skills and an understanding of how prompting, reference inputs, model selection, and workflow design influence creative output.\nExcellent creative judgment, with the ability to articulate why creative work succeeds or falls short and provide clear direction for improvement.\nExperience developing AI-assisted creative workflows and an understanding of how prompting, model selection, references, and iteration influence creative output.\nStrong systems thinking, with an ability to turn creative experimentation and intuition into repeatable approaches and best practices.\nComfort working autonomously, learning rapidly, and collaborating across creative and technical teams in a fast-changing environment.\nThe compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in the posting country based on a global rate. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. We do not ask candidates about current or prior salary history, and we will not use such information, if volunteered, in setting an offer.\nThis range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.\nFactors Influencing Final Compensation:\nThe final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.\nOther business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.\nCanada Base Salary Band\n$129,882—$178,588 USD\nUSA Base Salary Band\n$121,412—$166,942 CAD\nStackAdapter's Enjoy:\nHighly competitive salary\nRetirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally\nCompetitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!\nAccess to a comprehensive mental health care program\nHealth benefits from day one of employment\nWork from home reimbursements\nOptional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto\nRobust training and onboarding program\nCoverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)\nAccess to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning\nAn awesome parental leave program\nA friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture\nOur social and team events!\nPlease note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.\nStackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability, superpower status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. \nStackAdapt is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation, please let us know.\nWe use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.\nAbout StackAdapt\nWe've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. 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