Senior Director

Your mission is to set the absolute craft standard for scene work across all Plotsy productions and build the directors who meet it. While a traditional Director Editor simply makes the scenes they are assigned, the Senior Director ensures that every single scene Plotsy produces is excellent, cohesive, and crafted by a team that is continuously improving. You bridge the gap between creative intuition and objective, scalable standards. How You Will Spend Your Time 40% Elite Directing & Execution: Personally cracking the hardest sequences, handling heavy dialogue, and directing style-setting pilot episodes. 40% Mentorship & Coaching: Reviewing Director Editors' work, running live screen-share training, and leading role-specific talent acquisition. 20% Standards & Process Ownership: Defining written craft metrics, enforcing quality gates, and partnering with engineers to evolve the AI pipeline. Daily Responsibilities Generate Elite Scenes: Direct and assembly-cut narrative scenes to the highest benchmark in the company. Refine Model Performance: Command high-precision AI model outputs for emotional registers, eyelines, and lipsync. Bypass Prompt Limits: Take over complex blocking or heavy dialogue scenes where standard prompting fails. Conduct Scene Reviews: Critique Director Editors' work early to catch errors while they are cheap to fix. Lead Live Training: Run hands-on, screen-shared coaching sessions while narrating your creative decisions. Drive Alignment: Keep the craft bar consistent across different titles, regardless of which director is assigned. Document Standards: Author clear, objective definitions of what "approved" work looks like with real pass/fail examples. Enforce Quality Gates: Hold the line on quality under tight deadlines, escalating schedule costs to the Showrunner and CPO when necessary. Optimize the Pipeline: Feed successful directing workflows to the Principal AI Production Engineer to upgrade production rulesets. What You Must Bring Narrative Directing Body of Work: Substantial experience directing finished, long-form narrative content (not just fragments). NLE Editorial Proficiency: Genuine, hands-on assembly cutting mastery in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Avid. Generative Tool Mastery: Deep experience with AI video/image platforms, reference conditioning, seed management, and artifact cleanup. Flawless Performance Instinct: The ability to instantly spot a false performance, name the exact failure, and teach someone how to fix it. Standards-Based Thinking: The skill to turn subjective creative taste into actionable, objective written criteria. Deadline Discipline : The judgment to know exactly when a scene lands so production schedules stay on track. Radical Candor: The ability to tell a talented creator their work isn't landing in a way that makes them better rather than defensive. #J-18808-Ljbffr Plotsy