Creative Producer & Director

Department: Production

Location: Fairfield, NJ (on-site), with regular travel to shoots, partner studios and client sites

Reports to: Chief Creative Officer

Type: Full-time, exempt

Salary range: $95,000–$135,000 per year, based on experience

Benefits: Medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and paid time off and holidays

About the role

The Inception Company is looking for a Creative Video Producer/Director to lead video production projects from first idea to final delivery. You'll be a trusted creative partner to our clients, bringing both a strong point of view and the technical know-how to make it real.

Working with our Chief Creative Officer, you'll collaborate on creative video projects end to end, lead our post-production team, and produce Inception's own marketing content. Our work spans creative video, broadcasts, live events and studio production, and our best people move between them as projects demand.

This individual combines strong creative instincts with practical production expertise, managing everything from concept development, creative pitches, storyboards, and budgets to client relationships, crew coordination, on-set directing, and post-production oversight.

The role requires someone who can confidently lead a project both creatively and operationally, while collaborating with internal teams, freelance talent, and the Chief Creative Officer to deliver compelling work.

The ideal candidate is an ambitious, resourceful storyteller who is equally comfortable developing a creative concept, presenting to a client, directing on set, or solving a production challenge.

About Inception

The Inception Company delivers technology-enabled, fully managed creative solutions for healthcare engagement. We partner with healthcare and life sciences clients across creative video production, broadcast production, live event production and virtual solutions, working from our own studios in Fairfield, NJ and Ambler, PA and our own virtual meeting platform.

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Responsibilities

Creative video production

• Lead creative video projects end to end: concept, treatment, script, pre-production, shoot, post and delivery
• Own creative pitch decks and treatments: develop the concept, write the script, build the deck and present it to clients with confidence
• Serve as primary client contact: run creative calls, manage feedback and revision rounds, and set clear expectations
• Partner with the Chief Creative Officer on creative direction, owning execution from greenlight to delivery
• Conduct pre-interviews with patients, healthcare professionals and subject-matter experts to shape content
• Direct on shoot day: lead the set, shape performances, and guide physicians and key opinion leaders on camera
• Pick up a camera and shoot on smaller-budget projects when a lean crew is the right fit
• Produce live action and animation, with cut-downs and formats for social, web and live events
• Keep work aligned with client brand standards and pharma review processes, and protect patient privacy

Budgets, vendors and close-out

• Build production budgets and schedules, and reconcile them at wrap
• Hire and manage crew, partner studios and vendors: negotiate rates, write statements of work, and handle releases, licensing and music rights
• Close out every job cleanly, with organized project files and reconciled invoices and POs

Post-production leadership

• Lead our in-house editorial team: assign edits, set priorities and give clear creative feedback
• Run client review rounds and editorial QC before anything goes out
• Coordinate freelance editors when volume spikes

Inception marketing

• Produce Inception's external marketing content: sizzle reels, case studies, social content and sales pitch material
• Work with sales and leadership so our pitches show our best, most current work

Across our service lines

• Produce broadcasts, live events and studio work as the schedule demands, including travel
• Stay current on production techniques and gear, and bring new ideas to clients and the team
• Mentor producers and associate producers on creative production craft

Requirements

Must have

• 7+ years producing creative video at an agency, production company or in-house team
• A portfolio of work you led from concept to delivery
• Client-facing presence: can run a creative call, present a treatment and hold the room
• Hands-on technical fluency: cameras, lighting, audio, and Premiere-based post workflows
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro, Photoshop) and PowerPoint
• Directing experience on set
• Experience managing an editor or small creative team
• Budget and schedule ownership on productions you've run
• Sharp attention to detail on client-facing scripts and cuts
• Comfortable with regular travel and fast-shifting priorities

Strong plus

• Pharma, healthcare or medical communications experience, including directing physicians and working with patients and caregivers
• Working knowledge of pharma promotional review (MLR) and related rules (FDA/FTC, HIPAA, Sunshine Act)
• Broadcast, live event or virtual event producing
• Comfortable shooting yourself on smaller-budget productions
• Animation, motion graphics or photography skills
• Has produced brand & marketing content

Who thrives here

We are producers and planners; creators and coordinators; tinkerers and technicians; coders and client-delighters; helpers and hunters; managers and magicians.

We're One Execution Team. The right person lives these without being asked:

• We go where the work is. Travels to the shoot, jumps on a broadcast, and fills whatever role the team needs.
• Specialty is not a constraint. Creative video is the home base, not the boundary.
• Do Different. Brings fresh ideas to how we make and sell our work.
• Execute. Execute. Execute. Every job is better than the last with knowledge that our clients come first.

You don't need to know everything, but you should be curious, resourceful, willing to learn, and excited about taking on new challenges.

This is an opportunity to take real ownership of meaningful projects, work alongside experienced creative and production professionals, and continue growing as both a creative and a producer.

Please submit your resume with a link to your reel at the top. Applications without a reel link won't be reviewed.