Producer / Director

O*NET: Producers and Directors·27-2012.00

The Verdict:Creative direction demands real-time collaboration with actors and crews, interpreting scripts into human performances no AI can orchestrate. AI handles research, editing, and admin, augmenting productivity, but artistic vision, on-set leadership, and negotiation remain human domains. The role evolves with tools but faces no elimination threat over the next decade.

Resilience Score

/100

Resilient

Score tiers

Highly Resilient81–100

Resilient61–80

Moderate Risk41–60

High Risk21–40

Critical Risk0–20

How is this scored?

Task Resilience

How much of this role's daily work remains beyond AI and robotic automation.

30% of score

Physical Presence

The degree to which this job needs a human present — hands-on, in the field, or in the room.

20% of score

Human Necessity

How important the unique human edge is — for trust, accountability, or judgment.

15% of score

Regulatory Shield

How strong the legal requirement is for a human in this job (by law, licensing, or credentials).

13% of score

Technological Maturity

How far AI remains from performing this role's core functions.

10% of score

Displacement Evidence

The volume of jobs in this field being eliminated by AI or automation right now.

12% of score

Score last updated: February 2026Full methodology

Avg Salary

Median annual wage from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024 release.

$83k

Job Growth (10yr)

Projected change in total number of jobs (not salary) from 2024–2034. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections.

+4.9%

AI Exposure

Percentage of this role's analyzed tasks that AI can handle autonomously or nearly so. 4 of 30 tasks are classified as AI-exposed.

13%

Low exposure

Task Analysis

This role has a mixed AI profile.
4 tasks are automatable, 47% reward AI fluency, and 12 remain human-essential.

4exposed

14AI leverage

12human-essential

View all 30 tasks

AI Can Handle This4 tasks

Tasks AI can do autonomously or nearly so

Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other informational sources.

Compile scripts, program notes, and other material related to productions.

Cut and edit film or tape to integrate component parts into desired sequences.

Write and edit news stories from information collected by reporters and other sources.

AI Leverage14 tasks

Master these tools — humans who do outperform those who don't

Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.

Review film, recordings, or rehearsals to ensure conformance to production and broadcast standards.

Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed.

Perform management activities, such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and marketing.

Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.

Establish pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements and cast and set accessibility.

Obtain rights to scripts or to such items as existing video footage.

Write and submit proposals to bid on contracts for projects.

Compose and edit scripts or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written.

Choose settings and locations for films and determine how scenes will be shot in these settings.

Review film daily to check on work in progress and to plan for future filming.

Perform administrative duties, such as preparing operational reports, distributing rehearsal call sheets and script copies, and arranging for rehearsal quarters.

Develop marketing plans for finished products, collaborating with sales associates to supervise product distribution.

Arrange financing for productions.

Human Advantage12 tasks

Tasks requiring trust, presence, or novel judgment

Communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized.

Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education.

Supervise and coordinate the work of camera, lighting, design, and sound crew members.

Confer with technical directors, managers, crew members, and writers to discuss details of production, such as photography, script, music, sets, and costumes.

Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or workshop scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts.

Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and to ensure production objectives are attained.

Resolve personnel problems that arise during the production process by acting as liaisons between dissenting parties when necessary.

Coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and other personnel throughout the production process.

Negotiate with parties, including independent producers and the distributors and broadcasters who will be handling completed productions.

Hire principal cast members and crew members, such as art directors, cinematographers, and costume designers.

Hold auditions for parts or negotiate contracts with actors determined suitable for specific roles.

Select plays, scripts, books, news content, or ideas to be produced.

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