Responsibilities

• Develop strategic creative concepts and activations, design systems, layouts, and executions from brief through final delivery across print, digital, retail, and video channels.
• Translate client objectives, brand strategy, and audience insights into creative solutions that are visually compelling, strategically grounded, brand-relevant, and aligned to healthcare communications best practices.
• Design, revise, proof, and refine creative work, ensuring accuracy, originality, usability, consistency, and quality across all deliverables.
• Supervise creative output produced by assigned designers and freelancers, providing clear direction, constructive critique, and quality control throughout the creative process.
• Manage, mentor, and develop direct reports by coaching performance, setting expectations, supporting growth opportunities, and providing guidance when standards are not being met.
• Partner with Creative, Client Service, and integrated teams to develop effective campaign materials and creative solutions that meet client goals.
• Present creative concepts and final executions internally and externally, clearly articulating how design decisions support user needs, business goals, brand standards, technical requirements, and project objectives.
• Interpret internal and client feedback, ask relevant UX and strategic questions when appropriate, and apply direction in ways that strengthen the final creative product.
• Review and interpret wireframes into comprehensive designs, applying current UX and digital best practices across websites, emails, banner ads, and other digital channels.
• Participate in new business pitches, project scoping, estimating, and defining creative deliverables under the guidance of senior creative leadership.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of digital art/design direction experience, preferably within an agency and/or healthcare communications environment.
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in design, visual communications, or a related discipline.
• Compelling online portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, conceptual strength, visual craft, branding expertise, and execution across print, digital, and integrated channels.
• Strong foundation in graphic design, including branding, typography, layout, print production, digital design, conceptual development, and pre-production/post-production processes.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Understanding of current UX, digital, and channel-specific best practices, including experience designing websites, emails, banner ads, and other digital assets.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize complex design challenges, apply a strategic approach to problem solving, and develop informed creative solutions.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to communicate creative rationale clearly, respond thoughtfully to client questions, and support a strong creative point of view.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple brands, accounts, categories, audiences, and deadlines while maintaining high creative standards and attention to detail.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and fostering the growth of creative team members or direct reports.

Benefits

• All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
• No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
• 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
• Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
• Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
• Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
• Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
• 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
• Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.