Description
Who We Are
Trilogy Interactive is a full-service digital agency. For over a decade, we have stood at the forefront of the digital revolution in the Democratic political and nonprofit space. We’re reshaping what’s possible in the world of politics through our award-winning ads for campaigns, nonprofits, and organizations.
We’re a dynamic, diverse team — and now, we want you to join us! We are looking for an experienced Seasonal Creative Director to join our team remotely from June 1 through the 2026 election. If you are ready to use your skills to make a positive impact on your community and your country in an exciting, team-focused environment, please apply today.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and guide production of ads, from pre-production to final delivery, including video, audio, and static digital ads, alongside Senior Creative Director.
- Ensure that all creative deliverables are submitted on time, on budget, and error-free.
- Provide and align on creative feedback on every draft of creative.
- Assess client feedback for budget, deadline, and skill feasibility.
- Suggest creative solutions to strategic problems.
- Assign creative projects to a team of internal and freelance designers, editors, animators, and post houses.
- Monitor capacity of all design team members to assess availability for assignments.
- Hire and produce voiceover talent.
- Identify, assess, onboard, and oversee new freelancers as needed, including production companies for live shoots.
- Track live action footage deliveries.
- Source, track, and license editorial and stock assets, including video footage, photos, and music.
- Provide art direction and references for video scripts in early drafting and at the beginning of production.
- Brainstorm unique script ideas and visual approaches alongside full creative team, including scriptwriters.
- Identify and troubleshoot process roadblocks and inefficiencies.
- Estimate budgets and deadlines for creative deliverables.
- QA all drafts and final deliverables for errors and platform specifications.
- Complete time sheets on a daily basis.
Hours Expectations
This is a full-time role during a busy election cycle, requiring 40-55 hours of work each week. Night and weekend work is expected, especially August-October.
Location
This is a remote, freelance/contract position, and we encourage all U.S.-based candidates to apply. Candidates able to work West Coast hours (whether or not they are West Coast-based) are preferred.
To Apply
To apply, please send a PDF of your resume and a link to your video production portfolio (or at least three links of videos you’ve served as the lead producer or creative director on) to jobs@trilogyinteractive.com with “Seasonal Creative Director” in the subject line. Please include either your hourly rate or your full-time buy-out / monthly rate (assuming full-time availability) in the body of the email. Feel free to email us with any questions.
We believe we do our best work by drawing on our diverse range of staff backgrounds, and strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those with physical challenges and disabilities to apply. Should you require an accommodation during this application process, please contact us.
Requirements
Qualifications
Required skills include:
- Minimum of five years of experience as a creative director (working in video or film) or video producer. Political design and/or advertising experience is a plus.
- Experience producing organic and/or paid digital ads for a variety of platforms, lengths, and formats, in both live action and motion graphics formats.
- Experience with an intense and quickly-moving production pipeline, managing up to 20-40 creative projects at once.
- Experience managing very quick (2-3 day) turnarounds for video.
- Ability to work independently and proactively.
- Familiarity with digital advertising best practices; current design, animation, and editing trends; and political advertising creative tropes.
- Familiarity with Asana or other similar project management software.
- Passion for pushing the boundaries of political advertising creative and making political ads that take creative risks and win elections.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Collaborative, adaptable, and humble, with an understanding that creative teams produce their best work together.
- Well-developed personal and professional creative taste. A vision and a strong point of view about how political ads can be better.
- Passion for and focus on electing more Democrats up and down the ballot and supporting Democratic-aligned causes, issues, and ballot measures.
