Director + DOP – Branded Content
- Reporting To: Creative Director
- Job Location: Mumbai
- No. of Openings: 1
DESCRIPTION:
CYLNDR India is looking to hire a hybrid creative. Half storyteller, Half cinematographer and 100% accountable. You’ll take ideas from script to screen and make them impossible to ignore.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Direct
- Read a script and see the film before anyone else does.
- Direct actors, influencers, founders and real people.
- Make products feel desirable not demonstrated.
- Shoot
- Own camera, lighting, framing end to end.
- Create premium visuals
- Light fast. Shoot smart. Deliver sharp.
- Move between reels, performance ads, brand films, interviews without losing taste.
- Think Content
- Shoot with the edit in your head.
- Build thumb-stoppers.
- Collaborate tightly with editors to land the punch.
Skills & experience required to Succeed in this role:
- 2-3 years in the game with work to prove it.
- Strong portfolio in branded content.
- Comfortable across Sony, Canon, RED, Blackmagic.
- Lighting fundamentals are second nature.
- You move fast but your frames don’t look rushed.
- You understand brand. Not just aesthetics.
- 10–15 sharp short-form pieces every month.
- 2–4 bigger brand films per quarter.
- Visual consistency across campaigns.
- Premium output. Even when timelines aren’t.
- If you believe branded content can shape culture, let’s talk.