Creative Director (Art)

Overview

In this role you will steer the visual creative vision for healthcare and pharmaceutical campaigns. You will collaborate with senior leaders across copy, strategy, medical, and regulatory to deliver strategically rigorous and medically accurate work. You’ll mentor and develop senior creatives while shaping ideas that strengthen brands and drive client growth. The position offers the opportunity to influence cross-channel campaigns and elevate Klick’s Creative Craft to new standards. You will lead with impact, balancing creative ambition with regulatory and audience considerations.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the visual creative direction for integrated healthcare campaigns across digital, social, CRM, print, and events
• Direct multi-account creative quality, mentoring ACDs, ADs, and designers to ensure brand consistency and objective alignment
• Collaborate with senior leaders from copy, strategy, medical, regulatory, and client services to balance creativity with medical accuracy and regulatory requirements
• Present and defend visual direction and campaign platforms to senior stakeholders using data-driven rationale
• Develop talent and contribute to growth by coaching teams, leading pitches, and driving new business opportunities
• Ensure high-quality output through agency workflows, medical and regulatory reviews, production, and on-time delivery

Key requirements

• 10+ years of art direction, design, and creative leadership in advertising, healthcare communications, or related agencies
• Proven experience leading healthcare/pharma/life sciences creative work with integrated campaigns
• Portfolio showing advanced art direction across campaigns, visual systems, typography, digital, social, CRM, presentations, and experiential work
• Experience presenting strategies to senior client stakeholders and navigating feedback and strategic trade-offs
• Experience directing output across multiple concurrent accounts with ownership of quality and delivery
• Experience leading and developing senior creative talent with evidence of improving team capability

• strong communication and presentational skills
• collaborative and leadership mindset
• ability to balance creative ambition with scientific accuracy
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Keynote

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