Senior AI Video Producer

Ruder Finn • New York, NY

7d • $90,000 - $125,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

RF Studio53 is a creative studio specializing in visual experiences, including graphic design, moving images, and interactive content. They work with international businesses to bridge innovation and change through communication. Ruder Finn is seeking a Senior AI Video Producer to create high-quality AI-generated and AI-assisted video content for agency and client work. This is a hands-on role focused approximately 70% on AI video creation and 30% on broader creative production, including live-action support, edits, pitch films, social content, and client-facing videos. The ideal candidate will be proficient in concept development, script shaping, visual approaches, AI asset generation, directing creative output, editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, sourcing voiceover and music, and delivering polished video content. They must understand AI video's capabilities and limitations, distinguishing high-quality output from generic or unfinished work, while also supporting non-AI productions and fast-turn edits.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in video production, branded content, creative production, post-production, editorial, social content, film, advertising, PR, agency, or integrated communications environments.
• At least 1 year of meaningful hands-on experience creating AI-generated or AI-assisted video content.
• Strong hands-on editing ability in Adobe Premiere Pro; Premiere is the primary editing platform for this role.
• A strong reel, portfolio, or individual video samples showing video craft, storytelling ability, editing instincts, visual judgment, and AI-generated or AI-assisted work where applicable.
• Ability to clearly identify your role in submitted work, especially what you personally wrote, generated, directed, edited, produced, or finished.
• Strong understanding of cinematic language, including composition, camera movement, lighting, shot progression, mood, tone, and visual continuity.
• Excellent editorial instincts, including pacing, timing, music selection, emotional beats, transitions, voiceover placement, and story structure.
• Ability to write, shape, or improve scripts, voiceover, treatments, and short-form narratives.
• Hands-on experience with AI video, image, voice, music, or creative tools such as Runway, Kling, Pika, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, or similar platforms.
• Ability to distinguish polished, cinematic AI work from generic, uncanny, unfinished, or low-quality AI output.
• Comfort working across different styles, including cinematic, social-first, influencer-style, documentary, brand anthem, explainer, pitch, internal, executive, and experimental formats.
• Experience creating pitch videos, campaign films, case studies, social assets, executive videos, client-facing creative prototypes, or similar content.
• Ability to work directly with internal teams and clients in a clear, confident, collaborative way.
• Comfort presenting creative work to clients and explaining the rationale behind creative and technical decisions.
• Strong production judgment: knowing what is possible, what needs more time, what can be fixed in the edit, and when to start over.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple projects at different stages.
• Curiosity and adaptability as AI tools, workflows, standards, and client expectations continue to evolve quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, Illustrator, CapCut, Descript, Topaz, or other post-production and finishing tools is a plus.
• Motion graphics, design, color, sound design, or audio mixing skills are a plus.
• Experience producing live-action shoots or hybrid AI/live-action content is a plus.
• Experience building internal AI workflows, training materials, creative guidelines, or production standards is a plus.
• Familiarity with communications, earned media, reputation, healthcare, technology, corporate, or integrated campaign environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality AI-generated and AI-assisted video content for Ruder Finn agency and client work, from concept through final delivery.
• Translate creative briefs, client needs, and strategic inputs into video concepts, scripts, treatments, visual references, shot lists, prompts, and production approaches.
• Use generative AI tools to create cinematic, social-first, documentary-style, influencer-style, brand, internal, pitch, and campaign video assets.
• Generate and refine AI visuals with a strong creative eye, motion, voiceover, music, and supporting assets using the right tools for each assignment.
• Build video sequences with clear story structure, emotional arc, strong pacing, music timing, editorial rhythm, and polished transitions.
• Help establish repeatable AI production processes, prompt systems, documentation, quality standards, and best practices.
• Stay current on emerging AI video, image, voice, audio, editing, and production tools.
• Recommend AI tools and workflows based on the creative need, timeline, budget, risk, and intended output.
• Follow agency guidance around AI usage, confidentiality, rights, likeness, client approvals, disclosure, and responsible production.
• Serve as a hands-on creative producer and editor for both AI and non-AI projects, including pitch films, social content, client presentations, sizzles, case study videos, internal videos, executive communications, live edits, and campaign assets.
• Edit primarily in Adobe Premiere Pro, including rough cuts, fine cuts, sound timing, music edits, VO placement, polish, versioning, and final exports.
• Support live-action, event-based, and fast-turn video needs when required, including pulling together footage, shaping story, creating quick-turn edits, and preparing client-ready cuts.
• Help develop treatments, moodboards, scripts, storyboards, visual references, production plans, and presentation materials.
• Partner with creative, strategy, production, account, digital, design, and client teams to bring ideas to life.
• Manage timelines, feedback rounds, priorities, and deliverables with strong attention to detail.
• Participate in brainstorms and contribute ideas that are strategically smart, visually compelling, and executable.
• Support client-facing conversations by explaining creative choices, production approaches, AI capabilities, production limitations, risks, and recommended paths forward.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunity
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• Company paid Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401k (match) plan
• Monthly allowance for cell phone, office equipment, etc.
• Generous PTO policy
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Transit benefits
• Professional learning and development opportunities
• Workplace flexibility
• On-site and off-site social gatherings

What This Job Offers

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