Creative Director

Fireflies.ai is the leading AI teammate for meetings, trusted by more than 20 million users across over 500,000 organizations, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Fireflies captures knowledge, automates repetitive work, and helps teams become more productive before, during, and after every meeting.

Fireflies has achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. In 2024, Ramp recognized Fireflies as the sixth most popular AI platform by number of paying customers, alongside companies including OpenAI, Midjourney, and Anthropic. There is a good chance you have already seen Fireflies quietly powering one of your recent meetings.

We're hiring a Creative Director to be the ideas engine behind how Fireflies tells its story. We want someone who can ideate, script, plan, and think: a person who comes up with hundreds of ideas, knows which ones will travel, and turns the best into films, campaigns, and launch moments people talk about. You'll own the loop from "here's what we need to say" to a finished piece out in the world.

Today, most of that ideation and vision comes from our CEO. This role takes it on. You'll bring the ideas, the scripts, and the point of view, and work with our editors and creative team to get them made.

This isn't a film-director seat, and it isn't a brand or graphic design seat. It's for a creative thinker first: someone with story instincts, a feel for what goes viral, and the discipline to plan and ship. You'll work directly with our CEO, and what you make will reach millions of people.

What you'll do

• Generate ideas at volume: hundreds of concepts, hooks, and angles for launches, campaigns, and social, then sharpen the best and cut the rest fast
• Develop a clear sense of what goes viral, and use it to decide what we make and how we make it
• Write the scripts, treatments, and story arcs yourself, turning product ideas into stories people remember
• Plan the creative calendar around product launches and key moments, working with marketing on timing
• Turn ideas into reality, using AI video tools (e.g. Higgsfield, Veo, Runway, Seedance) and other tools to prototype and produce quickly
• Work closely with our editors, motion and video teammates: brief them clearly, review their work, and give constructive feedback
• Set the creative standard for Fireflies storytelling across film, video, and social
• Share work early and often, and build a library of ideas, scripts, formats, and templates that helps each new project start further ahead

What we're looking for

• Strong ideation instincts: you can generate a large volume of ideas and have a clear view on which are worth making
• A real sense of what goes viral, with examples of work you shaped that spread and your read on why
• Cinematic or story-led scripts and treatments you wrote yourself that we can read
• 3+ years in creative direction, content, advertising, or story-led creative work, with strong taste and a clear opinion on what makes a draft better
• A portfolio of shipped work you conceived, scripted, or led, such as campaigns, brand or launch films, social content, or commercials
• Planning and ownership: you can take an idea from concept to finished piece, working through others
• Clear communication, and the ability to work independently and move fast
• Comfort collaborating with editors and giving direction they can act on

Strong plus: hands-on experience with Higgsfield, Veo, Runway, Seedance or similar AI tools, with examples of how they shaped your process. Also welcome: brand or launch work for a tech or software company, a track record of social-first or viral content, or experience mentoring a small creative team.

How we work

• Remote-first team, collaborating mainly over Slack and video calls
• Fast iteration. We ship often and value a strong idea delivered on time
• Direct access to our CEO and a small, senior creative group

Our hiring process

1. Apply with your work. Share your portfolio or links to shipped work, plus one script or treatment you wrote
2. Portfolio review. Our creative team reviews your work, typically within about 48 hours
3. Recruiter call (30 min). Your motivation, location, availability, and expectations
4. Creative interview (45 min). Your process, how you generate and filter ideas, and how you work with editors and a team. Be ready to walk us through one idea or campaign and why it worked
5. Short brief (if needed). Pitch a set of ideas and script one for a real Fireflies story, 3 hours max, with an honorarium
6. Final conversation (30 min). Meet our CEO
7. References and offer. Two references, then we move quickly

What matters to us

• You're a strong communicator and contribute positively to the team
• You take ownership and have an internal compass
• You value candid feedback and overcommunication
• You care about quality and design, while keeping things simple
• You measure your impact and look for ways to improve and automate
• You're comfortable working in a fast-moving environment and getting a little better every week
• You're customer-focused and care about the end result, not just the output
• You value fast, incremental ways of working

Perks & benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Work remotely from anywhere in your respective country
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off and flexible leave policy
• Ability to move laterally within the team and grow quickly
• No-boss culture
• LGBTQ+ friendly workplace
• Company offsites
• Tech reimbursements

About Fireflies.ai

At Fireflies.ai, we're changing how teams use AI in their daily work. Our culture is built around security, innovation, customer experience, and growth. Backed by $19M from investors including Canaan and Khosla Ventures, along with angels from Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, and Salesforce, Fireflies is a global team of 100+ people across 20+ countries and every time zone. We're building a global-first company and use our own product every day to help us work better.

Fireflies.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity because our team is stronger when people with different perspectives and experiences can do their best work. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.