About Daily Harvest 

Daily Harvest makes nourishing food built on fruits and vegetables accessible. We do this by delivering thoughtfully sourced, chef-crafted food to customers' doorsteps, all ready to enjoy in minutes. We’re on a mission to take care of food, so food can take care of you.  

Our team is collaborative, driven, and future-thinking.  We're constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating, and celebrate failure just as much as success. We take risks, try new things, and we get things done. We love adaptogens and cruciferous vegetables but never say no to cake. Everything we do, we do in the service of our community.

Position Overview

Daily Harvest is looking for a Senior Video Art Director to join our Creative team. The Daily Harvest Creative team develops innovative creative for every part of the business. Daily Harvest is proudly agency-free—meaning the in-house creative team juggles every single project the company executes (think: web, print, packaging, installations, app, social, campaigns, etc.). We're a group of dynamic virtuosos with a knack for creating the inspiring and the eye-catching. We take ideas and transform them into concepts that stick.

This role will lead the in-house video team, guiding our approach to video when it comes to storytelling and visual identity. The candidate who will thrive in this role has in-depth expertise in video concepting, storyboarding, and on-set direction. We're talking someone who can constantly come up with new, exciting video ideas and who isn't afraid to get weird. They should also be well versed and have experience in editing and motion design as they will oversee in-house editors and motion designers. The right candidate must have impeccable taste and have their finger on the pulse of culture. This person should have strong management skills and is a leader who inspires the entire creative team. The Senior Video Art Director will report into the Creative Director, VP.

What you’ll do:

• Ideate elevated and ownable video concepts for paid and organic social, new product launches, campaigns, and one-off projects with external content and brand partners. Many projects will entail pitching motion design ideas to augment video concepts.   
• Manage and lead in-house editors and motion designers with empathy, vision and mentorship. 
• Own and refine the brand visuals when it comes to video. 
• Partner with the production team during pre-production and post-production and be able to speak to lighting, camera angles, prop styling, set design, casting and voiceover.  
• Give on-set direction during video shoots
• Give feedback for ongoing video projects, weighing in on the edit with a sharp eye.
• Partner with project managers and our in-house production team to assist around resourcing, particularly with post-production timelines.
• Spearhead partnership between the creative team and the growth marketing team and brainstorming ways to identify and implement data-driven performance insights to paid video ads
• Partner with stakeholders on brand and growth teams to brainstorm GTM ideas for marketing campaigns

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree, a concentration on film and/or media studies a plus
• 5+ years experience with experience managing and leading a team
• This person must be based in NYC and be able to be on-set for production but can work remotely (in and around NYC) or in the office when not on-set
• Must have a strong portfolio
• You are incredibly creative and able to come up with a bounty of original ideas in a short period of time
• You have a refined eye and a very high taste level
• Expert in Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects
• Strategic thinker who can translate marketing insights and strategy into visual execution
• Strong knowledge of the social media and marketing landscape with respect to video/motion
• A scrappy team player who is ready to hustle and pitch in wherever necessary
• A passion for good, healthy food - but not afraid to celebrate with a big slice of cake

Benefits:

• Unlimited Daily Harvest in the office to keep you hustling, not hangry + cold brew (...always stocked)
• Flexible time-off policy + flexible working hours (Unlimited PTO Plan)
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K + equity participation 
• Ancillary benefits: Commuter, Gym membership + Citi Bike discounts
• Access to everything we make (including recipes in development)
• Annual company retreat
• Quarterly team outings, weekly onsite happy hours, + regular DH team gatherings to celebrate our co-workers
• Book club + running club
• Showers for post-morning or mid-workday workouts
• A dynamic, ambitious, and fun work environment + dog friendly!!

At Daily Harvest, our mission is to take care of food, so that food can take care of you. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. These are our guiding principles and apply across all aspects of employment.