Creative Director, Stage 31 AFX

The Creative Director serves as the creative authority of Stage 31 AFX, Warner Bros. Discovery's internal AI-centred VFX facility, reporting to the Facility Managing Director. The role 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.

• 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
• Internally approve all work before client presentation, and own the dailies and review cadence with the Head of Finaling
• Supervise on set for facility-carried sequences, protecting plates and data capture for AI-assisted workflows
• 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

• 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, with the ability to mentor senior artists

• 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

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation
• Annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards may form part of the total compensation package