Freelance Associate Creative Director, Design (Pharma)

USA (On-site)

$105/hr – $115/hrMid Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the visual design strategy and art direction across digital programs, translating complex information into clear visual storytelling and building scalable design systems.

  • Lead visual design and art direction across client engagements
  • Translate complex scientific or technical information into engaging visuals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the visual design and art direction of digital and integrated creative across client engagements
  • Develop compelling creative concepts that bring brand strategies and campaign ideas to life
  • Design and oversee creative for websites, landing pages, digital campaigns, emails, banner ads, social content, presentations, and other marketing materials
  • Establish and evolve visual identities, design systems, and brand standards
  • Translate complex scientific, technical, or business information into clear and engaging visual communications
  • Partner with copywriters and other creative team members to develop cohesive concepts and campaigns
  • Provide creative direction and constructive feedback to designers, ensuring a high level of craft and consistency
  • Maintain strong attention to typography, layout, composition, imagery, color, and overall visual storytelling
  • Ensure creative work aligns with client objectives, brand standards, and regulatory requirements
  • Present creative concepts, design rationale, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders with confidence and clarity

Requirements

  • 8–10 years of visual design, digital design, art direction, or creative experience within an agency, consultancy, or in-house creative environment
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, art direction, digital creative, and brand storytelling
  • Proven ability to concept and execute sophisticated creative across websites, digital campaigns, social, email, presentations, and other marketing channels
  • Strong understanding of typography, layout, composition, color, imagery, and visual hierarchy
  • Experience developing and applying brand identities, visual systems, and design standards
  • Ability to translate complex business, scientific, or technical information into compelling visual communications
  • Experience providing creative direction and feedback to designers
  • Comfortable working collaboratively with copywriters, strategists, developers, account teams, and project managers
  • Experience working with developers and understanding digital production and implementation considerations
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

Benefits

  • CG Life offers a variety of benefits, including health benefits, 401K retirement with a generous company match and immediate vesting, and flexible time off.
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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

$105/hr – $115/hr

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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