Associate Director – Creative Video & Production, Global Communications

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Associate Director, Creative Video & Production sets visual direction across enterprise storytelling within Global Communications, bringing Lilly's news and stories to life through short- and long-form video, and overseeing the production that gets it made. The mandate is video storytelling that's unmistakably Lilly: human, caring, and centered on the people we serve. Reporting to the Senior Director, Creative & Production, this leader moves work from concept to finished asset with craft, speed, and consistency at the pace of a newsroom and the standard of a best-in-class studio.

It’s a rare opportunity to turn a global company’s purpose — making life better — into stories the world wants to watch and share. This is a role for a video creative with a strong directorial point of view, the craft to back it up, and an operator’s instinct for how to run a production team — a leader who can shape a concept, shoot and edit it themselves, lead the production pipeline behind it, and elevate the work of everyone around them.

• Set and elevate the creative direction for video and motion storytelling, translating strategy and ideas into compelling, on-brand content across channels and formats.
• Direct and produce end-to-end video—concepting, scripting, shooting, editing, motion graphics, and finishing—maintaining a consistently high creative bar.
• Coordinate production across the studio, running the pipeline from intake through delivery and helping the team move with newsroom-paced speed against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge.
• Craft platform-native video, from short-form social and vertical formats to long-form, executive, and event content, optimized for each channel and audience.
• Partner with the masterbrand team to carry Lilly’s visual identity into motion, ensuring video output is cohesive, recognizable, and evolves how the brand shows up on screen.
• Provide creative direction and guidance to video producers, project teams, and contract creatives, raising the craft and consistency of the work without direct line management.
• Help build and steward a network of contract videographers, editors, and motion talent, including sourcing, scoping, directing, and quality-checking external work to scale production as needed.
• Partner with content, design, and channel teams to bring integrated stories to life with video that is audience-centric and optimized for impact.
• Bring emerging production techniques and generative AI video tools expanding what’s possible and accelerating production without compromising craft or brand safety.
• Build accessibility and brand-safe practices into every output—accounting for captioning, audio description, color contrast, motion sensitivity, IP-cleared footage and music, and talent/likeness rights—so video work meets enterprise standards by design, not by exception.
• Collaborate with Thread Collective, Lilly’s in-house agency, on production and creative execution, optimizing shared resources and expertise.
• Help manage video…