Art Director / Senior Art Director

About This Role

An experienced and versatile Art Director or Senior Art Director is sought to join a growing agency team, supporting pharmaceutical and life sciences clients. This role involves active, hands-on contribution to day-to-day design execution across various formats and channels. The primary responsibility is to translate complex information into high-quality, compelling, on-brand creative that is easy to understand and resonates with key audience segments, including payers, healthcare professionals (HCPs), formulary decision-makers, and organized customers.

Responsibilities

• Execute hands-on design work across projects, making sound look, feel, and layout decisions within established brand and creative direction
• Design and build deliverables across multiple channels, including digital and dynamic/interactive materials, print deliverables, presentations, and other pharmaceutical and market access marketing materials
• Manage projects from brief to delivery, including layout, refinement, production, and final file handoff, ensuring accuracy and quality throughout
• Translate approved content and creative direction into clear, polished visuals that resonate with payers, HCPs, and other market access audiences
• Support broader creative team operations with a strong emphasis on hands-on execution in a lean, fast-paced environment
• Bring the Creative Director’s vision to life, upholding visual standards and consistently delivering polished, high-quality work
• Present design work and rationale internally and to clients with confidence and clarity
• Support new business pitches by producing polished pitch materials as needed
• Collaborate closely with content strategists, copywriters, and account leads to ensure alignment between visuals and messaging
• Provide art direction and constructive feedback to junior designers and freelancers as needed
• Help create, maintain, and evolve internal brand visual standards, templates, and asset libraries
• Ensure creative work adheres to client brand guidelines and regulatory requirements (e.g., ISI, fair balance, and references)
• Prepare files for medical/legal/regulatory (MLR) review, incorporating feedback while maintaining design integrity

Requirements

• High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), with expertise in Figma and PowerPoint
• Production mindset, taking pride in craft, moving quickly, and turning around high-quality, accurate files at volume
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy and content into visually compelling creative
• Experience designing for regulated industries, ideally in pharmaceutical or life sciences marketing
• Proven experience working within and adapting brand guidelines, consistently executing on-brand work at a high visual standard