Creative Director (Art)

Overview

In this Creative Director (Art) role, you will sculpt the visual strategy for healthcare and pharmaceutical campaigns, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver distinctive, medically accurate visuals across channels. You’ll partner with senior leaders to balance creative ambition with regulatory and scientific constraints, driving brand strength and client growth. You’ll mentor senior creatives, shape pitches, and scale impact across multiple accounts. This position sits at the intersection of art, strategy, and medical storytelling, within Klick’s Creative Craft.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the visual creative vision for integrated healthcare campaigns across digital, print, CRM, social, and experiential channels from brief to delivery
• Oversee quality of art direction and visual storytelling across multiple accounts, guiding designers and art directors while ensuring brand alignment
• Collaborate with Copy, Strategy, Medical, Regulatory, and Client Services leaders to balance creativity, audience relevance, medical accuracy, and regulatory needs
• Present and defend creative strategies and visual direction to senior stakeholders using clear rationale to move complex work forward
• Develop and coach creative talent, contributing to pitches, new business opportunities, and account growth
• Lead creation of campaign platforms and design systems that scale across channels and campaigns

Key requirements

• 10+ years of art direction, design, and creative leadership in advertising/healthcare or related agency environment with a portfolio showing progression from concept to major campaigns
• Healthcare/pharma experience with integrated campaigns across multiple audience or channel types
• Advanced art direction and leadership across campaign concepts, visual systems, typography, digital experiences, social, CRM, presentations, and experiential work
• Experience presenting and defending creative strategies to senior client stakeholders with ability to navigate feedback and strategic trade-offs
• Experience directing output across multiple concurrent accounts, ensuring quality through creative workflows, medical and regulatory review, and on-time delivery
• Experience developing senior creative talent (ACDs, ADs, designers) and improving team capability
• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Design, Art Direction, Visual Communications, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Desireable: familiarity with AI in workflows, visual platforms for HCP/payer/audience, advanced Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote

• leadership and people development
• excellent communication and client-facing presentation
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Keynote

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