Associate Creative Director

Responsibilities

• Brand Development & Campaigns: Lead brand development and communication strategy for Unity, our prenatal genetic portfolio product line. Develop creative strategy and art direction for social media content, event activations, experience design, and outdoor advertising. Create provider- and patient-facing brand advertising, product marketing, and sales enablement content across display, social, video, and experiential channels.
• Strategic Design Leadership: Partner with Product, Sales, and Marketing to define project objectives, translating requested outputs into measurable business outcomes. Develop creative strategies informed by insights into what drives behavior across providers, patients, and industry partners. Break down complex creative work into plans that align with business goals and timelines.
• Art, Copy & Messaging: Direct art, copy, and message development, balancing scientific accuracy with emotional resonance and accessibility.
• Creative Direction & Execution: Lead art direction across print, digital, video, animation, presentations, environmental graphics, and branded experiences. Transform complex scientific concepts—including molecular diagnostics, genetic testing, and laboratory workflows—into compelling visual narratives.
• Design Systems & Brand Guidelines: Establish and evolve design systems and brand guidelines that scale with our rapid company growth.
• Creative Production: Direct photography, illustration, motion graphics, and video production with internal teams and external vendors.
• Team Leadership & Development: Guide and mentor design team members and contractors, providing clear creative direction and constructive feedback. Build a culture of creative excellence, intellectual curiosity, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Present and defend creative concepts to C-suite executives, board members, and scientific leadership. Manage feedback from subject matter experts while maintaining creative vision and strategic objectives.
• Project Delivery: Oversee projects from concept through final delivery, ensuring quality, accuracy, and on-time completion. Manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Production Partnerships & Asset Management: Coordinate with external vendors, agencies, and production partners. Maintain organized asset libraries and project documentation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional design experience.
• 5+ years in art direction roles with demonstrated leadership.
• Proven track record of designing in science, bioscience, healthtech, or diagnostics.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating the ability to translate complex scientific or technical concepts into accessible, engaging visual communications.
• Background at design firms, agencies, or in-house creative teams at innovative companies.
• Genuine intellectual curiosity about medicine, science, computation, and physics, with the courage to challenge the status quo.
• Enthusiasm for translating complex science and technology into visual stories.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid pivots in a dynamic growth environment.
• Expert-level skills in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects.
• Proficiency with AI creative tools such as Midjourney, Kling, Imagen, Veo, or similar platforms.

Preferred

• Experience in high-growth or IPO-stage companies is helpful.

Benefits

• Working alongside brilliant, kind, passionate and dedicated colleagues, in an empowering environment, toward a global vision, striving for a future in which transformative molecular diagnostics can help millions of patients
• Open, transparent culture that includes weekly Town Hall meetings
• The ability to indirectly or directly change the lives of hundreds of thousands patients
• Multiple medical benefit options; employee premiums paid 100% of select plans, dependents covered up to 80%
• Extremely generous Family Bonding Leave for eligible employees (16 weeks, paid at 100%)
• Supplemental fertility benefits coverage
• Retirement savings program including a 4% Company match
• Increase paid time off with increased tenure
• Latest and greatest hardware (laptop, lab equipment, facilities)
• Free daily on-site lunches provided from top eateries