Associate Director – Creative Video & Production, Global Communications

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Associate Director – Creative Video & Production, Global Communications

The Associate Director, Creative Video & Production sets visual direction across enterprise storytelling within Global Communications, bringing Lilly's news and stories to life through short- and long-form video, and overseeing the production that gets it made. The mandate is video storytelling that's unmistakably Lilly: human, caring, and centered on the people we serve.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Creative & Production, this leader moves work from concept to finished asset with craft, speed, and consistency at the pace of a newsroom and the standard of a best-in-class studio. It’s a rare opportunity to turn a global company’s purpose, making life better, into stories the world wants to watch and share.

This is a role for a video creative with a strong directorial point of view, the craft to back it up, and an operator’s instinct for how to run a production team, a leader who can shape a concept, shoot and edit it themselves, lead the production pipeline behind it, and elevate the work of everyone around them.

Key Objectives/Deliverables

· 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.

· Collaborate with Thread Collective, Lilly’s in-house agency, on production and creative execution, optimizing shared resources and expertise.

· Help manage video assets, footage libraries, production files, and templates, ensuring quality, organization, and easy reuse across teams.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Skills/Preferences

· 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.

· Tight-knit collaboration skills to partner across creative, content, and channel teams in a fast-paced environment.

· Video Craft & Vision: Exceptional director and editor with a strong storytelling instinct and an eye for detail that elevates everything Global Communications produces.

· Production Leadership: Runs a video production pipeline with newsroom-paced speed and studio-grade craft, balancing real-time work with planned campaigns.

· Brand Stewardship: Deep understanding of how to bring a brand and visual identity to life in motion, in partnership with the masterbrand team.

· Creative Leadership: Sets direction and raises the craft of producers and partners through creative direction and influence, not hierarchy.

· Innovation & Collaboration: Brings new production techniques and tools into the studio and partners seamlessly across content, design, and channel teams.

· Global Perspective: Brings a global perspective to creative, with the cultural proficiency and awareness to shape video that resonates across markets and partner effectively with teams worldwide.

Additional Information:

• Indianapolis, IN or Remote

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$127,500 - $187,000

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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