Creative/Video Director

East London · Occasional travel, including DubaiWe're looking for a creative who directs. Someone who can walk into a client room with an idea, defend it, then stand on set two weeks later and actually make it. If you've spent a few years being the safest pair of hands on the shoot and you're ready to own the creative behind it too, read on.💼 PERKS & BENEFITS💸 Company Profit Share Scheme🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme☀️ 32 days Annual Leave (including bank holidays)☕ Free coffee, tea, and fruit in the office🎨 Monthly team activities🏡 Hybrid working options🧠 ABOUT USPerspective Pictures makes branded videos for the internet. We're 20+ people across East London and Dubai, fully kitted, and we handle everything in-house from the first idea to the final export.5,000+ videos. 50+ countries. Clients ranging from start-ups nobody's heard of yet to RedBull, LEGO, Adobe, TikTok, and Lululemon.The mission hasn't changed: make the best, most engaging video content brands can put online.🎬 THE ROLEThis is a fast-paced, hands-on role where you'll take briefs at the point they're still vague, find the idea inside them, and carry it all the way through to delivery; pitch, prep, shoot, post.You’ll shape ideas, build treatments, pitch directly to clients, and direct on set with clarity and flair.🔑 WHAT YOU'LL BE DOINGLeading creative on major accounts, from interrogating the brief through to signing off the grade.Building and delivering pitches that win. You'll be the voice in the room, not the person behind the deck.Directing across the full range of what we make: campaign films, social-first series, founder-led content, fast-turnaround formats.Setting the visual and tonal direction of a project and holding it — through client feedback, weather, and a schedule that's tighter than you'd like.Running sets with authority and calm. Crew, talent, clients, and agency all watching the same monitor.Working shoulder to shoulder with your DOP on camera, lighting, and coverage, and with production on where ambition has to meet budget.Steering post so the delivered cut is recognisably the thing you sold.Mentoring other creatives: reviewing their work, sharpening their pitches, and telling them the truth about both.Contributing to how we pitch, price, and position ourselves as a creative business, not just to individual jobs.Bringing a point of view on culture, platforms, and formats that shapes where we go next.🚀 WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR5+ years in a creative role at a production company, agency, or studio, with a meaningful chunk of that directing.A reel that shows range and a recognisable sensibility, not just competence.Track record of pitching and winning work at a senior level, including in front of client-side decision makers.Comfortable directing at any scale — from a self-shot two-hander to a full crew with stakeholders on set.Genuinely good with performance: trained talent, real people, and nervous founders alike.Fluent in camera, lens, and lighting language. You can shape a look with your DOP, not just approve one.Deep platform literacy across YouTube, TikTok, and Meta, and a clear grasp of how each one changes the way you shoot.Commercially aware. You know what a day costs and you design ideas that can actually be made.Able to hold several projects at different stages without dropping any of them.Generous with credit, direct with feedback, and unbothered about doing the unglamorous parts when it helps the job.🌟 BONUS POINTS FORGlobal or culturally specific campaigns, especially directing on location or overseas.Strong writing: scripts, VO, social concepts.Directing efficiently to multiple deliverables and aspect ratios in a single day.A trusted little black book of DOPs, editors, producers, and creatives.Self-shooting for lean or fast-turnaround work.Experience helping build out a creative department as a team grows.🙌 WHY JOIN USDirect regularly, not occasionally, with the kit and crew to do it properly.Senior enough to shape the work, not just execute someone else's brief.A growing company with an appetite for bigger, braver projects — including international work out of Dubai.Good culture that backs bold ideas and doesn't dilute them on the way to delivery.Work seen by millions, on a reel you'll actually want to show people.📩 HOW TO APPLYPress easy apply and include a link to your portfolio of content.Applications without portfolios will not be considered.🌍 DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at every level of our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.