Iris Izenberg Zak

Structure first.Then thestory lands.

Creative Director & Content Architect. Two decades of prime-time television, now building narrative-driven digital experiences and AI production pipelines.

Iris Izenberg Zak portrait

Working across prime-time television, academia and digital product taught me that inspiration is the spark, but engineering is what makes it hold. A format is an argument — pacing, structure and restraint are what carry it.

I bring that to digital products: content architecture, user journeys and the formats that live inside them — designed so the person on the other side actually gets there. Alongside it I build the production systems, AI-assisted included, that let a small team ship at scale without losing craft.

Experience
2023 — Now

Creative & Content Operations Director

Digital Content Innovation Unit — EdTech Product Lab, Bar-Ilan University

EdTech product · Global scale · Scalable content products

  • End-to-end product and visual leadership. Strategic design and production of international digital learning products shipped to edX and Campus IL on a commercial release cadence.

  • Complex content decoding. Translating abstract research and data into cohesive visual narratives and universal leadership paradigms for global users.

  • Multi-modal system design. Full ownership of the user journey and content strategy across three platforms — video, audio and interactive interfaces as one narrative system.

  • AI agent architecture. Engineered a scalable content agent system that accelerated the creative production chain by 40% while holding brand integrity.

  • Data-driven impact. 93% satisfaction (4.67/5), with strong engagement KPIs across interactive product models.

Shipped
Rabbi Sacks — A Window into Jewish Thought

Narrative curation, interview direction and scripting, multi-platform LMS deployment. 4.70 / 5 across 1,200 learners.

Jerusalem — A Journey Through Time

On-location filming, interactive learning design, deployment across edX, Campus IL and Moodle. 4.64 / 5 across 1,426 learners.

Moses — The Story of a Leader (in production)

End-to-end LX design, video production and GenAI-assisted workflow, for Campus IL and edX.

2004 — 2023

Content & Creative Operations Director

Keshet · Reshet · Docu · Independent projects

Prime-time direction · High-stakes operations · Narrative strategy

  • Prime-time creative leadership. High-stakes projects for national broadcasters, leading multi-disciplinary teams of up to 30 — research through advanced post.

  • End-to-end creative ownership. Concept ideation to broadcast master; creative lead on award-nominated productions.

  • Narrative strategy and visual systems. Scripts and visual narratives that turn sensitive, complex subject matter into content for broad audiences.

  • Stakeholder and brand management. Partnering with senior industry leaders and talent on series launches, with PR and marketing aligned across channels.

  • Content operations. Built and optimised content systems and research departments under commercial broadcast pressure.

Practice
Creative strategy & knowledge architecture — Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM
GenAI ops, agent systems & product build — Claude Code, Claude Design, Lovable, Figma
Multi-modal video production & operations — Fal, Descript, Frame.io, HappyScribe, Monday.com, Google Workspace
Concept development and creative direction
Educational and instructional content design
Script writing — documentary, mockumentary, format
Selected projects
Avudim (Lost) · Osot Heshbon (The Accountable) · Out of Silence · 14 Weeks
Israeli Television Academy Award nominee
Rabbi Sacks — A Window to Jewish Thought (Bar-Ilan MOOC)
Orchestra of Pedagogy — mockumentary, Teaching & Learning Division
Seedance — futuristic Bar-Ilan campus film
Law Faculty and Computer Engineering content suites

Bring me the brief.I'll bring the structure.