Film Specialist AVP

Barclays•New York, NY

8d•$100,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Film Specialist AVP within the Group Brand and Marketing team, where you'll have the chance to shape the visual direction of our brand through high‑impact storytelling and best‑in‑class film production. You’ll execute end‑to‑end filmmaking from our New York studio, partnering on the creative concept through to final delivery, producing compelling content for leadership communications, internal campaigns, and strategic initiatives. In this role, you’ll bring hands‑on expertise across filming, directing, and post‑production to ensure every piece aligns with Barclays’ visual identity and quality standards. You’ll collaborate closely with senior stakeholders and global partners in an agile environment, managing feedback, timelines, and expectations to deliver polished, consistent outputs. Additionally, you’ll help elevate our creative culture through skills mentoring and championing efficient workflows, seamless cross‑functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Extensive professional experience across film production, including directing, camera operation, sound, lighting, autocue and delivering high‑quality content under tight timelines.
Advanced pre‑ and post‑production expertise, with strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud tools - particularly Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with confidence engaging senior leaders and collaborating across global, distributed teams and time zones.
Highly organized approach to project execution, including meticulous management of assets, files, and deliverables, as well as confidence in bringing the Barclays brand to life.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading or mentoring a small film or creative production team, fostering skills development and high‑quality output.
Working knowledge of AI‑driven film and design tools, with the ability to integrate emerging capabilities into production workflows.
Experience working in partnership with agencies to ensure consistency and quality across formats.
Demonstrated digital design proficiency (InDesign), complemented by skills in stills photography to support broader creative needs.

Responsibilities

Design of graphics to be used in a range of digital and physical channels.
Management of filming and postproduction edit processes.
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.