Associate Creative Director (Copy)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Associate Creative Director to help lead creative development across a key pharmaceutical client partnership. With a foundation in copy, you'll bring together strong creative thinking, strategic leadership, and hands-on expertise to inspire teams and deliver work that is compelling, scientifically grounded, and meaningful to healthcare audiences.

This role is ideal for a collaborative creative leader who is equally comfortable helping to shape the big idea, guiding teams through execution, and rolling up their sleeves as needed. You'll partner closely with cross-functional and client leaders to set the creative direction, champion great work, and create an environment where teams feel supported and empowered to do their best thinking.

Responsibilities

• Provide creative leadership and direction across a key pharmaceutical account, shaping work from initial strategy and concept development through execution.
• Lead and inspire multidisciplinary creative teams across copy and art, bringing a strong point of view while creating space for collaboration and new ideas.
• Translate complex scientific, strategic, and business challenges into compelling creative ideas that resonate with healthcare professional audiences.
• Partner closely with Account, Strategy, Medical, and other cross-functional disciplines to ensure creative solutions are strategically sound, scientifically accurate, and aligned with client objectives.
• Serve as a trusted creative partner to clients, confidently presenting ideas, articulating creative rationale, and navigating feedback to move the work forward.
• Balance strategic creative leadership with hands-on contribution, stepping into the work when needed to solve challenges, strengthen concepts, and maintain quality.
• Champion creative excellence across deliverables, ensuring consistency of voice, messaging, and creative vision throughout integrated campaigns and communications.
• Guide teams through evolving priorities and challenging feedback while fostering a positive, solutions-oriented environment where people feel supported and motivated.
• Mentor and develop creative talent, providing thoughtful feedback and helping team members strengthen their craft, confidence, and strategic thinking.
• Contribute to the continued evolution of the agency's creative offering, bringing fresh thinking, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge convention.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a creative role within an advertising, marketing, or integrated agency environment.
• Experience developing work for pharmaceutical or healthcare brands, particularly HCP audiences, required.
• Strong copywriting background with a portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking and executional excellence across multiple channels.
• Experience leading creative development and providing direction across both copy and art.
• Ability to connect creative ideas to strategic, brand, and business objectives.
• Strong understanding of agency workflows and collaborative, cross-functional project delivery.
• Experience mentoring and developing creative talent while contributing to a positive, supportive team environment.
• Confident communicator with experience presenting creative work and recommendations internally and to clients.
• Comfortable balancing creative leadership with hands-on involvement in the work when needed.
• Comfortable working Eastern Time Zone business hours.