Art Director - Health & Wellness

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize & Ideate: Develop original, creative concepts, sustainable campaign platforms, and thumb-stopping social, and tactical activations that spark conversations and generate media buzz.
• Visual Direction: Establish the visual approach, look & feel, tone, and visual storytelling across all assets for healthcare and pharmaceutical brand campaigns.
• Creative Collaboration: Partner closely with copywriters, strategy leads, and Associate Creative Directors to bring multi-channel ideas from brief to life.
• Hands-on Design: Create mood boards, swipe, production-ready layouts, key visuals, comps, color palettes, treatments, and high-impact presentation decks.
• Presentation & Selling: Confidently present and articulate creative rationale and visual concepts to internal leadership and external clients.
• Production Mastery: Maintain a solid understanding of the production lifecycle across video, digital, social, print, experiential, and emerging AI design tools.
• Problem Solving: Consistently find creative solutions when faced with budget constraints, regulatory/MLR feedback, or shifting strategic direction.
• Case Study Packaging: Package completed campaigns into case studies for internal education, new business pitches, and award submissions.
• Mentorship: Provide basic direction, guidance, and mentorship to Associate Art Directors and Junior Creatives.
• Cross-Functional Teaming: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including account leads, strategy, production, and PR discipline leads.

Requirements

• Experience: ~5 years of experience ideating and crafting visual concepts across multiple mediums within an agency setting (healthcare/pharma/wellness account experience highly preferred).
• Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, elevated aesthetic sense, pixel-perfect visual design, and high-level execution across digital, and social campaigns.
• Healthcare Acumen: Ability to translate complex healthcare topics into accessible, engaging visual storytelling, with an understanding of navigating medical/regulatory guidelines without sacrificing creative punch.
• Technical Skills: Expert hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), experience leveraging generative AI tools for ideation, and strong presentation deck skills in PowerPoint.

Preferred

• healthcare/pharma/wellness account experience highly preferred

Benefits

• a competitive benefits package.