Video Director, Product Launches

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

The Creative Studio is Anthropics in-house creative team responsible for the brand expression across Anthropic and Claude. We care about craft making things by hand and using AI when it makes sense. The team is growing and were looking for people who do excellent work to join us. The stakes are real and theres room to shape what all this becomes.

About the role

As a Video Director for Product Launches at Anthropic you will own the creative vision and execution of video content for our most important moments: model launches and product reveals. Youll lead the full production lifecycle from concept to delivery bringing a storytellers instinct to complex technical subjects and crafting narratives that make transformative AI feel accessible and compelling.

This role operates in a fast-paced environment where launch timelines move quickly and turnarounds are tight. Youll need to make sharp creative decisions without the luxury of extended development cycles pivoting when priorities shift moving from brief to execution with speed and delivering high-quality work under real pressure.

Youre someone who can walk into a room understand what a launch needs to communicate and build a video strategy around it then execute it at the highest level. You lead crews with confidence guide collaborators through ambiguity and know how to get great work across the finish line even when the timeline is short.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee video production for model and product launches from initial creative brief through final delivery often on compressed timelines

• Develop creative concepts treatments and narrative strategies that translate complex AI capabilities into compelling human-centered stories

• Lead and manage production crews on set including DPs camera operators sound lighting and other crew members

• Partner with marketing product and communications teams to align creative direction with launch goals and messaging

• Guide post-production workflows providing creative direction to editors colorists and sound designers

• Identify the story worth telling within a launch taking raw elements context and product details and crafting a cohesive narrative arc

• Build and maintain scalable production processes that can flex to meet the pace of Anthropics launch cadence

• Stay current with video production trends launch formats and storytelling techniques in the technology and AI space

You may be a good fit if you

• 6 years of professional video directing or production experience with a portfolio that demonstrates your ability to lead high-impact launches or campaigns

• Have experience directing at a SaaS or AI company or have worked as part of an in-house creative team in a fast-paced technology environment

• Are a skilled storyteller who can take disparate elements such as product features brand positioning and customer impact and shape them into a compelling narrative

• Have proven experience leading production crews on set and are comfortable owning creative decisions under time and budget pressure

• Thrive under tight turnarounds and can maintain creative quality when timelines are compressed

• Understand the full filmmaking process from pre-production through delivery and can provide informed direction at every stage

• Are an excellent communicator who can articulate creative vision clearly to both production teams and non-technical stakeholders

• Are proactive and calm under pressure bringing clarity to ambiguity and keeping productions moving even when priorities shift

• Are excited about the challenge of making AI launches feel meaningful to a broad audience

Strong candidates may also have

• Hands-on experience as a director of photography or camera operator

• Editing experience and comfort working directly in post-production

• Experience directing launch videos keynote content or product announcement films

• Background working with technical or complex subject matter and making it accessible on screen

• Familiarity with motion graphics animation or mixed-media storytelling techniques

• Knowledge of different delivery formats and platform requirements (web social events broadcast)

• Experience building or scaling a video production function from the ground up

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process