Senior Art Director (Creative Team)

Description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Additional Information
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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.
• Company Description
• The Klick Group —comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realising the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.
• About our Creative Craft
• Our Creative Craft brings Klick’s ideas to life through storytelling, design, and experience. This craft blends imagination with strategy to create work that is emotionally resonant and culturally relevant. Creative teams collaborate across disciplines to simplify complexity and humanise healthcare. Their work drives engagement, understanding, and meaningful action across channels.