Creative Director, Copy (Pharma)

USA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the verbal creative product from concept through production, shaping integrated campaigns, brand voice, and narrative across channels while mentoring teams and collaborating with art, strategy, and medical partners to translate complex science into human, owned language.

  • Lead the development of integrated ideas across campaigns and brand experiences
  • Build and maintain brand voice and verbal systems across touchpoints

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of integrated creative ideas and verbal expression across campaigns, brand and experiences, from concept through execution
  • Partner closely with art to develop ideas from the start, bringing a strong conceptual and verbal point of view rather than treating copy as an executional layer
  • Translate strategy and complex science into distinctive creative ideas, narratives and language that are clear, compelling, human and ownable
  • Establish and evolve brand voice, tone, messaging and narrative, creating verbal systems that can flex across audiences, channels and touchpoints while remaining cohesive and recognizable
  • Move comfortably between big-picture thinking and hands-on craft—concepting, writing, editing, shaping narratives and refining language as needed
  • Set a high bar for creative excellence and craft, pushing teams beyond expected category language, familiar claims and conventional healthcare storytelling
  • Think beyond individual executions to build ideas and narratives that can travel across film, digital, social, experiential, content, emerging formats and the broader brand experience
  • Find the human truth inside complex science, helping teams turn data, mechanisms and clinical information into stories people can understand, care about and remember
  • Stay deeply connected to culture, language, storytelling, technology and emerging forms of expression, bringing fresh references and perspectives into the work and the creative department
  • Partner with art, brand & experience, strategy, medical/scientific, technology, account and production teams to create connected ideas rather than discipline-specific solutions

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience in copywriting or creative leadership, ideally within an agency or similarly multidisciplinary environment
  • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking, writing and storytelling across integrated campaigns and experiences
  • Exceptional command of language, voice, tone, narrative and messaging, with the ability to move confidently between a powerful campaign idea, a memorable headline and longer-form storytelling
  • A conceptual thinker who can originate and develop ideas in partnership with art, strategy and other creative disciplines—not simply execute against an established concept
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific and technical subject matter into clear, compelling and human creative without losing accuracy or meaning
  • Strong understanding of how ideas and language behave across channels, audiences and experiences rather than approaching copy as a collection of individual deliverables
  • Deep understanding of contemporary culture and language, with strong instincts around what feels fresh, relevant and ownable versus familiar or expected
  • Hands-on experience with generative AI, prompt development and AI-enabled creative workflows, particularly across ideation, concept development, writing, narrative exploration and content development
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate and sell creative thinking to internal teams and clients
  • Strong editorial judgment and attention to craft, with the ability to elevate work at both the conceptual and line-by-line level

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)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $175K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity

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
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Creative Director, Copy (Pharma)

CG Life · USA · On-site