Responsibilities

• Lead concept development and art direction for integrated healthcare and pharmaceutical campaigns across digital, social, CRM, print, presentation, experiential, and other client-facing channels from initial brief through final delivery.
• Direct visual quality across multiple projects and workstreams, shaping campaign systems, typography, layout, imagery, storyboards, digital experiences, and channel adaptations while maintaining consistency with strategy and brand objectives.
• Partner with Copy, Strategy, Medical, Regulatory, and Client Services to develop ideas that balance creative ambition, audience relevance, scientific accuracy, usability, and regulatory requirements.
• Present creative concepts, visual rationale, and campaign thinking to senior internal stakeholders and clients, responding to feedback while protecting the strategic and creative integrity of the work.
• Mentor and guide art directors and designers through concept development, reviews, and feedback while contributing senior creative thinking to pitches, new business opportunities, and broader account growth initiatives.

Requirements

• 7+ years of art direction or design experience in advertising, marketing, healthcare communications, or a related agency environment, with portfolio examples showing progression from concept development through final execution.
• Demonstrated experience leading conceptual creative work for healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated and complex clients, with examples of integrated campaigns across multiple channels.
• Portfolio showing strong art direction across campaign concepts, visual systems, typography, layout, digital, social, CRM, presentations, and other multi-channel deliverables, with evidence of shaping overarching visual platforms.
• Experience presenting creative work to senior internal stakeholders and clients, including explaining concept rationale, visual decisions, audience relevance, and responses to feedback.
• Experience reviewing and directing visual work across multiple concurrent projects, including working within agency creative workflows and medical/regulatory approval processes while maintaining quality and deadlines.
• Experience mentoring or guiding art directors, designers, or other creatives through concept development, design reviews, and feedback, with evidence of helping improve creative quality or team capability.

Preferred

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience developing work across HCP, patient, payer, or disease awareness audiences, including adapting visual systems while maintaining strategic and medical accuracy.
• Experience contributing senior creative thinking to pitches, new business presentations, or client growth opportunities within healthcare, pharma, or life sciences.
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote, and presentation design tools, with examples of using them across client-facing creative development.
• Working knowledge of healthcare brand challenges, audience needs, therapeutic area considerations, and market dynamics, with examples of applying that understanding to visual creative work.
• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Design, Art Direction, Visual Communications, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.