Creative Director, Copy (Health)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $230K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Owns end-to-end creative leadership from concept to client presentation and drives big, brand-building ideas across channels, guiding teams and aligning with strategy.

  • Lead from concept through execution and client-facing discussions
  • Mentor teams while pushing strategic, standout ideas
  • Collaborate with partners to apply best practices across channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Position Overview: Responsible for developing creative campaign concepts and leading multi-disciplinary teams through ideation to execution. Oversee the development of big, brand-building, persuasive, and unexpected ideas across all channels. Provide leadership and motivation while simultaneously extracting amazing thoughts and ideas from reporting creatives. Ability to defuse problems and come up with solutions in the best interests of the company, the clients, and the creative team.
  • Direct projects from concept to completion with minimal oversight from ECDs and GCDs, ensuring that creative ideas are executed in an exceptional way –
  • Act in the best interest of the client’s and/or the agency’s big idea when managing the day-to-day operations
  • Provide creative guidance to ensure ideas are tied to strategy, pushing for Famously Effective ideas internally as well as with the client
  • Manage the client relationship and lead creative meetings/presentations to the client
  • Generate ideas to help pitch and win new business
  • Lead effective team meetings to both organize high quantity of work, but also to inspire and motivate team members.
  • Work with internal and external strategic partners to create products using the most current industry best practices
  • Setting an example for the larger team through setting high creative standards and overall involvement in the larger agency initiatives.
  • May develop junior teams with careful and consistent feedback, mentorship and model behavior

Requirements

  • At least 10 + years of industry experience in a well-established, creative role with a proven track record of agency success
  • Agency experience working across all channels
  • Strong creative portfolio highlighting relevant/category experience and industry award winning work
  • Solid verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to all levels of clients
  • Knowledge of marketing, all forms of advertising, and digital experiences, with proven conceptual and design abilities
  • Experience working with large teams in client-facing role
  • Excellent written and presentation skills
  • Able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

  • Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
  • Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
  • Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
  • Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change
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GREY

Grey’s mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business, and the world forward—harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems and deliver growth for the world’s most influential brands and companies including P&G, Volvo, Haleon, Circle K, and The Coca-Cola Company, among others. This year alone, Grey was recognized as a 2025 Fast Company World Changing Ideas winner, earned 7 Grand Prix from prestigious global award shows, and secured 22 Lions at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including a Gold Lion in every region. Newsweek also named Grey a Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace (2024) and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women and Professional Services (2025). Grey is part of WPP (NYSE:WPP).

Founded in 1917
New York, New York, USA
3.3K employees (1,260 in marketing)

Salaries

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$100K/yr – $230K/yr

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516 (16% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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92.8K
Traffic Source Mix
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45.1%
Direct
40.8%
Referral
9.5%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1%

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Creative Director, Copy (Health)

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