# Video Director

**Company:** [Soar With Us](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/h5HCimNapUCX3anZpCGXyy.md)
**Location:** Wigan, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Marketing

[Apply for this job](http://jobs.workable.com/view/c2b605a3-08f7-4a95-b31a-bc87bb0a7feb)

## Description

### Video Director (Manchester)

**Function:** Creative Direction | Production Leadership | Performance Storytelling

**Responsibility:** Own creative vision and execution for high-production performance ad campaigns

**Reports to:** Producer _(day-to-day operations)_ | Creative Director _(creative standards & development)_

**Location:** Full-time | Hambi Media MCR Studio, Central Manchester _(1 day in studio / 3 days on set per week)_

**Compensation:** £35,000 - £40,000 + Benefit Scheme + 27 Days Paid Holiday + Private Healthcare  

### Overview

The Soar Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing performance agency groups, home to three specialist agencies. On the inside, we work as one:

-   Hambi Media: Performance creative agency for Meta, delivering High Production, UGC, and Static ads. The UK’s largest performance creative division in the UK.
-   For You Advertising: The UK’s #1 independent TikTok agency, specialising in TikTok paid media, TikTok Shop, and creator-led content at scale.
-   Soar With Us: Paid social and paid search, managing media buying and growth strategy across the group’s client portfolio.

Together, the group manages over £100M in ad spend, works with category-leading D2C brands, and operates the UK’s largest Creative Strategy department with design, production, strategy, and UGC all under one roof.  

### What Sets Us Apart

-   Nominated for Meta’s Creative Diversity Award 2025, the only independent agency recognised.
-   Highest independent agency spend on Meta in 2025.
-   Official TikTok Agency Partner, Creative Partner, and one of the only TikTok Shop Partners across UK and US.
-   Two production studios (London and Manchester)
-   Creators of D2C Diaries, one of the UK’s leading eCommerce podcasts
-   Partnered with Meta, TikTok, Foreplay, and Triple Whale.  
    

### The Role

You'll own creative execution across our high-production shoots - directing talent, leading treatments, and ensuring every frame serves a commercial purpose. You'll work hand-in-hand with Creative Strategists who bring performance data and audience insight to every brief. From there, your job is to translate that into a detailed shot list before shoot day - arriving with creative intent fully formed, not figuring it out on arrival - and execute it on set with confidence. You'll know within days whether your work is performing, and you'll use that feedback to get sharper.

## Requirements

-   3–4+ years directing commercial, branded or performance content — agency or D2C experience strongly preferred
-   Demonstrable understanding of what makes paid social content convert: hooks, pacing, scene variety, calls-to-action
-   Proven experience directing a range of talent on set (actors, founders, real customers)
-   Ability to present and defend creative decisions to internal stakeholders and clients
-   Strong knowledge of Meta and TikTok ad formats, styles and best practices
-   Experience working alongside a Producer to manage shoot budgets and timelines
-   Excellent on-set leadership and communication skills
-   **A showreel or portfolio of commercial/branded work is required to be considered for this role  
      
    Preferred but not essential:**
-   Direct experience in D2C or performance advertising
-   Familiarity with tracking creative performance metrics (hook rate, CTR, ROAS)
-   Experience with post-production workflows for social-first content
-   Ability to operate camera, lighting and audio equipment where required  
    

### Responsibilities

-   Lead creative direction from treatment through delivery across UGC, VSL, testimonial, product, lifestyle and brand film formats
-   Direct actors, models, founders and real customers to capture authentic, performance-driven moments on set
-   Provide clear creative direction to the Videographer on framing, movement and capture priorities throughout every shoot
-   Partner with Creative Strategists to translate performance data and audience insights into visual creative decisions
-   Maintain accurate on-set logging, footage organisation and metadata for post-production handover
-   Track the performance of your work (hook rate, CTR, watch time) and apply learnings to future shoots
-   Stay ahead of Meta and TikTok creative trends and experiment with new formats and approaches
-   Contribute to raising the creative bar across the production team  
    

### What Success Looks Like

In your first 90 days, you'll have led multiple shoots end-to-end, built strong working relationships with our Strategists and Producers, and have ads live and running in client accounts. Within 6 months, you'll have a clear track record of creative decisions tied to measurable performance outcomes - and you'll be actively using that data to evolve your approach. If this excites you then apply now.

### Attitude

ou take creative ownership but you're not precious about it. You understand that in performance creative, the data & strategy is part of the brief - and you use it as fuel, not a constraint. You lead sets with clarity and calm, bring out the best in talent, and care as much about the results as the craft itself.

## Benefits

-   28 days paid holiday including birthday leave, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. 
-   Long-service holiday scheme: After 2 years’ service, you’ll receive 1 extra day of annual leave for every year of service.
-   Flexible and hybrid working (2 days in office). 
-   Regular team socials.
-   Company Private Health and life insurance scheme.
-   Company pension scheme.
-   Work abroad for 1 month a year.
-   Full-time Manchester-based role (1 day studio / 3 days on set per week).