Creative Director, Stage 31 AFX

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

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.

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

• 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

• 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

Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.

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