The Senior Art Director develops conceptual, strategically grounded creative work for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients. This role partners closely with Copy, Strategy, Client Services, Medical, and Regulatory teams to create ideas that are visually compelling, insight-driven, and appropriate for regulated environments. The role supports integrated campaigns across digital, social, CRM, print, and presentation channels.
What You’ll Do
- Develop conceptual art direction and visual systems that translate healthcare/pharma strategy into clear creative ideas.
- Create campaign concepts, layouts, storyboards, social assets, digital experiences, and presentation materials for client review.
- Partner with Copy, Strategy, Medical, and Client Services teams to ensure creative work is accurate, compelling, and aligned to client goals.
- Present and defend creative concepts to internal teams and clients using clear rationale tied to audience, brand, and business objectives.
- Guide visual craft across multiple projects while incorporating feedback from creative, medical, regulatory, and client stakeholders.
- Several years of art direction experience in an advertising, marketing, or healthcare communications environment, with portfolio examples from concept through execution.
- Demonstrated experience developing conceptual creative ideas for healthcare, pharma, life sciences, or other regulated/complex clients.
- Portfolio showing strong visual design, typography, layout, campaign thinking, and multi-channel execution across digital and traditional formats.
- Experience presenting creative work to internal teams and clients, including rationale for concept, design choices, and audience relevance.
- Working knowledge of agency workflows, creative reviews, client feedback, and medical/regulatory approval processes.
- Ability to manage multiple creative deliverables at once while meeting timelines, quality standards, and stakeholder expectations.
Desired:
- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior creatives through feedback, concept development, or design reviews.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote, and presentation design tools in a client-facing creative environment.
- Experience developing work across HCP, patient, payer, or disease awareness audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Design, Art Direction, Visual Communications, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
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Our Commitment to Inclusion
Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.