We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.
We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.
World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.
Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.
*Open to hiring remote across North America — we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle
We're looking for a mid-to-senior art director to partner with a copywriter inside our new and growing in-house creative department. You'll concept and art direct at a high level across brand campaigns, product marketing, advertising, web, social, and events. About 75% of your time you'll develop campaigns and big ideas alongside the copywriter, reporting to the CD. The remaining 25% you'll operate independently on art direction support across the department (including, at times, in product art needs, video treatments, etc.).
This is a hands-on making role with real creative ownership. You won't be filling in templates — you'll be concepting campaigns, generating visuals, shaping the brand look and feel while helping build the creative standard for a rapidly growing company. We don't ideate and hand off. We execute on our own work.
What you’ll do- Partner with the copywriter to develop creative concepts and campaigns from brief through execution
- Art direct across all formats: advertising, brand, web, product, video needs, social, email, event materials, editorial design support
- Concept campaign ideas — not just mockups, but executions that work across channels
- Help shape and evolve the brand look and feel
- Contribute to creative presentations and pitch decks for sales teams
- Work independently on art direction-driven projects (web, product, editorial) when not paired
- Give and receive feedback generously — the work gets better through iteration
- 5-8 years in art direction, with agency experience strongly preferred
- A portfolio that shows both big conceptual ideas and strong craft across formats
- Experience working as part of a creative team (writer/AD pairing)
- Comfort moving fast and across multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience in brand and product contexts is a plus
- Someone who is deeply involved in using AI in their work
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Salary Range: $190,000 - $240,000
Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
More about Runway
- Universal World Simulator
- GWM-1
- Gen-4.5
- General World Models
- Robotics SDK
- Conversational Real-time Agents
- Runway Studios
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