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Senior Video Content Director - Workato Creative + Video Team

Workato workato.com Open · verified Sep 22, 2026
San Francisco Director Video Production

At a glance

Leadership Video Production role at Workato. San Francisco · $110,000–$130,000 base.

SalaryStated by Workato
$110,000 – $130,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from WorkatoOur estimate for the market: $147,500–$266,875Median $241,500
Below the market median of $241,500 for lead video production roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 6 postings that stated pay, median $241,500. Last updated Sep 16, 2026.
RoleVideo Production
SeniorityDirector
LocationSan Francisco
Base pay$110,000–$130,000
PostedJul 17, 2026 · 2mo ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Shape story ideas, scripts, treatments, and narrative plans with stakeholders, writers, and creative leads
  • Independently direct major videos, including brand films, launches, event openers, and customer stories
  • Guide executives, subject experts, speakers, and actors toward authentic on-camera performances
  • Make creative calls on framing, blocking, pacing, and tone through the final edit
  • Set craft direction, mentor contributors, and protect creative intent within scope and budget

What you bring

  • A senior reel showing consistently strong producing and directing across formats and production scales
  • The ability to develop scripts, treatments, and concepts with writers
  • Experience directing executives, external speakers, professional actors, and talent in high-stakes live settings
  • Broad command of the production process and creative problem-solving without owning logistics
  • Readiness to cover producer or DP work on smaller, resource-limited shoots

Who this fits

You’ll suit this role if you can find the human story in enterprise content, influence creative direction, and carry complex work from idea to final cut. The role is based in San Francisco. It is a senior individual-contributor position with informal mentoring and creative influence, rather than formal people management.

From the employer

About Workato

Workato is the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI — the neutral platform enterprises trust to put AI to work across their business. Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500 — including Nasdaq, Amazon, Cisco, Vodafone, Atlassian, and Lucid Motors — Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer. For more information, visit workato.com.

Why join us?

Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.

But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!

Also, feel free to check out why:

  • Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”

  • Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world

  • Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America

  • Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

Responsibilities

As Senior Video Content Director for the Workato Creative + Video Team, you're the creative force behind the stories we tell on screen. You don't just execute scripts: you help find the story in the first place, then direct it into something that excites and delights our audience. You'll bring commercial-grade visual craft and a genuine storytelling instinct to everything from brand films and product launches to event keynote openers and customer stories, working on our highest-profile and most complex productions. You will brainstorm and shape narrative direction from the earliest stages, and then take it all the way through to the final cut.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

  • Creative Concepting & Storytelling

    • Partner with stakeholders, writers, and creative leads in the brainstorming and concepting phase by contributing story ideas, narrative structure, and creative angles before a script or brief is finalized

    • Help write and shape scripts, treatments, and narrative outlines, bringing a director's eye for how a story will actually play on screen

    • Bring commercial and narrative sensibility to enterprise/B2B storytelling by finding the human, emotional core in content that could otherwise feel corporate

  • Directing & Production

    • Direct the team's highest-profile or most complex video productions independently, including flagship brand films, major event keynotes, and marquee customer stories

    • Communicate a clear creative vision across all stages of production, from concept through final cut

    • Direct talent including internal subject-matter experts, executives, and professional actors alike to deliver authentic, compelling performances

    • Make shot-level and story-level creative decisions independently: composition, blocking, pacing, tone

  • Creative Leadership & Influence

    • Set the visual and narrative standard the team can look to

    • Offer creative input that shapes production strategy and storytelling approach across projects beyond your own, without formal management scope

    • Mentor other craft-focused contributors informally, through example, on-set collaboration, and feedback in the edit

    • Partner with producers and editors to protect creative intent from concept through final cut

    • Partner with creative and production leadership to ensure ambitious creative visions are achievable within scope and budget

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

  • Sustained track record of producing and directing high-caliber work across a range of formats and production scales with a reel demonstrating range and consistency at a senior level

  • Brainstorming and writing abilities: contributing to scripts, treatments, and creative concepts alongside writers

  • Ability to direct a range of talent, including senior executives, third-party speakers, and high-stakes live settings

  • Deep fluency in the full production process, sufficient to problem-solve creatively under real-world constraints without owning production logistics

  • Versatility to step into producer or DP responsibilities on smaller or resource-constrained shoots when needed

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

  • Strong storytelling instinct: able to originate ideas and shape narrative from the concept stage, not just execute a finished script

  • Demonstrated ability to influence creative decisions and storytelling approach

  • Able to work within brand guidelines while pushing the team's creative ambition further

    The base salary range for this position is $110,000 – $130,000 annually and may include equity, benefits, and other components, subject to local eligibility requirements and employment type.

(REQ ID: 2894)

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