Executive Creative Director, Health & Wellness

USA (Hybrid)

$285K/yr – $350K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Lead and own the creative vision for a health and wellness brand across brand, social, retail, and digital channels, guiding senior client relationships and multidisciplinary teams from insight through launch.

  • Own the overarching creative direction and cross-channel coherence.
  • Manage executive-level presentations and creative counsel to drive account growth.
  • Mentor and lead large, multidisciplinary teams and partner with strategy, medical, and regulatory stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The overarching creative vision and standards for the account, from long-term brand platforms to fast-moving channel and retail activations.
  • Connected ideas that travel seamlessly across brand, social, content, creator and influencer, digital, retail, commerce, experiential, CRM, OOH, and video.
  • Creative approaches that reflect the realities of women's lives and health journeys, with the nuance and credibility required for sensitive topics.
  • Senior client relationships, executive-level presentations, and creative counsel that builds confidence, unlocks ambition, and supports account growth.
  • Multidisciplinary creative teams across art, copy, design, experience, social, content, and production.
  • Set a clear creative vision and raise the standard of the work across every brief, channel, and audience touchpoint.
  • Champion through-the-line thinking, ensuring the brand idea is coherent and distinctive while being purpose-built for each channel.
  • Guide teams from insight and ideation through production and launch, protecting the integrity, quality, and effectiveness of the work.
  • Balance emotional storytelling with clarity, credibility, and the practical information consumers need to navigate health decisions.
  • Bring a strong understanding of modern culture, social behaviors, creators, retail environments, and commerce experiences to the work.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in creative leadership within an agency, brand, health, wellness, consumer, or related environment.
  • Demonstrated experience leading health and wellness work; experience in women's health or an adjacent category is strongly preferred.
  • A portfolio showing standout integrated work across brand and channel ecosystems, with clear examples spanning several of the following: social, content, retail, commerce, digital, experiential, OOH, video, CRM, creator, and influencer.
  • Proven ability to build a central creative idea and adapt it effectively across the full customer journey rather than treating channels as isolated executions.
  • Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams and complex client relationships.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and defend creative recommendations with clarity.
  • Comfort working within regulated or high-scrutiny categories and collaborating with medical, legal, and regulatory partners.
  • A track record of attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing creative talent.
  • Bachelor's degree in advertising, design, marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
  • Life insurance,
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
  • 401k,
  • Flexible paid time off,
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year,
  • Paid sick and safe leave, and
  • Paid parental leave.
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$285K/yr – $350K/yr

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