Creative Director, Brand and Experience Design (Pharma)

USA (On-site)

$160K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end creative work for brand and digital experiences while mentoring a multidisciplinary team and integrating AI-enabled workflows into the practice.

  • Own integrated ideas across brand identity, campaigns and digital experiences.
  • Grow a small, multidisciplinary creative team and elevate craft and systems thinking.
  • Experiment with generative AI and emerging tech to speed, improve quality and increase creative possibilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of integrated creative ideas across brand identity, campaigns and digital experiences, from concept through execution.
  • Translate brand strategy into distinctive visual systems and experiences that flex across audiences, channels and touchpoints.
  • Bring strong UX/UI and interaction design thinking to the creative process, connecting audience needs and behaviors to intuitive, engaging experiences.
  • Move comfortably between big-picture thinking and hands-on craft—concepting, designing, prototyping and directing as needed.
  • Set a high bar for creative excellence across typography, imagery, motion, interaction and overall design craft, while thinking in systems that scale across a brand ecosystem.
  • Partner with copy, strategy, experience, medical/scientific, technology, account and production teams to turn complex science and strategy into work that is clear, compelling and human.
  • Own the quality and cohesion of the creative product while leading, mentoring and developing a small team of multidisciplinary creative talent.
  • Present and sell creative ideas to clients with clarity and conviction, connecting the work to brand strategy, audience needs and business objectives.
  • Champion experimentation and contribute to pitches and new-business opportunities, helping push the creative product and CG Life forward.
  • Advance AI within the creative practice

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience in creative, brand design, digital/experience design or art direction, ideally within an agency or similarly multidisciplinary environment.
  • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking and craft across brand and digital experiences, rather than expertise in a single channel or discipline.
  • Strong command of brand identity and design systems, typography, visual storytelling and art direction, with demonstrated experience in UX/UI, interaction design and prototyping.
  • Strong proficiency in Figma and strong experience with Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with motion and other modern creative tools is highly valued.
  • Hands-on experience with—or strong curiosity around—generative AI and AI-enabled creative workflows, with an appetite for experimentation and an understanding of how AI is changing creative practice.
  • Ability to understand complex scientific and technical subject matter and translate it into clear, compelling and human creative.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate and sell creative thinking to internal teams and clients.
  • Experience managing and mentoring designers and multidisciplinary creative teams.
  • Comfortable moving between disciplines, navigating ambiguity and determining the right creative approach rather than defaulting to a predetermined deliverable.
  • Healthcare, pharmaceutical or life sciences experience is highly valued, but exceptional hybrid creative talent from outside healthcare is welcome.

Preferred

  • Healthcare, pharmaceutical or life sciences experience is highly valued, but exceptional hybrid creative talent from outside healthcare is welcome.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. We cover a generous portion of employee contributions
  • 401K plan. We invest in present and future you, which is why we offer a generous match and immediate vesting on our plan
  • Parental Leave. Generous paid time off for parents to bond with their newest addition
  • Professional Development. Each employee has an annual budget to allocate to professional development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to take a workshop, attend a webinar, join associations, and do anything else that will help them grow in their careers.
  • And more! We offer flexible time off, life insurance, LTD, a robust employee assistance program, and more!
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CG Life

CG Life is a different breed of agency, built for the unique challenges of bringing precision medicine to market. Biopharma companies advancing therapies for rare and hard-to-treat diseases face a commercialization gap. They need a partner who has been there before, fluent in complex science, deeply attuned to rare disease ecosystems, and capable of orchestrating every step of commercialization. CG Life is more than an agency—we are defining a new class of partner that understands the full journey. We’re the locals, with expertise in scientific translation and market shaping, omnichannel activation, and patient/HCP engagement, all underpinned by data, AI, and deep domain expertise in rare and complex therapies.Let’s get to extraordinary. Together. Expert capabilities in:Brand StrategyPublic RelationsSocial MediaCreativeScientific CommunicationsOmnichannel Strategy & EnablementMedia PlanningAnalytics & Insights

Founded in 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
203 employees (49 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.8%
Direct
51.2%
Referral
6.8%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~203

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
1.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
15

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity