Principal, Creative Producer

Circle Internet Financial • San Francisco, CA

7d • $172,500 - $222,500 • Remote

About The Position

Circle is seeking a Principal, Creative Producer to lead production workstreams from concept through delivery and turn ambitious creative ideas into exceptional work across channels and formats. The role combines deep knowledge of traditional production with fluency in emerging approaches, including AI-enabled production. The producer will stay current with cutting-edge AI production techniques, develop an informed perspective on their possibilities, and share insights that surface opportunities across the Creative & Design team.

Working as a thought partner to Creative leadership, the producer will recommend production approaches, partners, tools, and resources while maintaining a high bar for craft. The role connects creative teams, agency and production partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate complex work and deliver productions that preserve the integrity of the creative idea. Production may span film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging formats.

Circle is an internet financial platform company building digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. It describes its work environment as flexible and its values as High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. The listed base pay range is $172,500–$222,500; compensation depends on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and organizational needs, and may vary by location.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant creative production experience and a portfolio of exceptional, highly crafted work.
• Demonstrated experience producing creative across multiple formats and surfaces, including film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging channels.
• Day-to-day fluency with modern AI-assisted production tools and workflows, including generative and assistive techniques for ideation, asset generation, iteration, or post-production.
• Ability to apply prompt engineering and iterative refinement, and translate model outputs into editorial and production decisions.
• Practical familiarity with core AI/ML concepts, such as generative models, synthetic media, model evaluation, and iteration, and sound judgment about when to use AI-driven versus traditional production methods.
• Deep knowledge of the creative production process and judgment to recommend how to produce an idea based on its ambition, audience, channel, resources, and constraints.
• Track record of leading complex production workstreams from concept through delivery while maintaining exceptional creative execution.
• Strong creative judgment and ability to recognize and advocate for great ideas, ensuring the production approach serves the idea rather than the technique or technology.
• Experience partnering directly with creative teams, agencies, production companies, and other specialist partners.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experimentation with AI production tools and workflows, a learn-by-making mindset, and an informed perspective on emerging capabilities and industry developments.
• Practical experience with prompt design, model output curation, quality evaluation, and integrating AI-generated assets into production pipelines.
• Experience working across both in-house creative teams and agency environments.
• Experience producing creative in financial services, technology, or another highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead production workstreams from concept through final delivery, translating ambitious ideas into exceptionally crafted work.
• Stay current with evolving production techniques and recommend approaches for ideas across film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging formats.
• Partner with Creative leadership and creative teams to assess feasibility, shape production approaches, solve challenges, and protect creative intent throughout execution.
• Research, experiment with, and operationalize AI production techniques and tools; turn findings into practical opportunities and share them with the Creative & Design team.
• Identify, engage, and manage agency and production partners, building collaborative relationships.
• Manage production timelines, budgets, workflows, dependencies, and communication across projects involving internal and external stakeholders.
• Champion high-quality execution while balancing creative ambition, craft, resources, constraints, and new production methods.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed