Creative Director, Art

Heartbeat is a full-service agency for healthcare Challenger Brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes game—they must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a “me-too” product into “yes-please.” The agency is known for serving up distinctive strategies and differentiating approaches, ensuring clients’ market positions are uniquely owned. Heartbeat designs their organization around a 100% integration model, housing media, strategy, med comms, creative, technology, and even point of care/population health under the same roof for the tightest, most integrated campaigns possible. They price work based on outcomes, not outputs, delivering powerful orchestration, greater efficiency, and maximum impact for every dollar spent—all the necessary elements for Challengers to triumph.

Responsibilities

• Work with copy counterpart to address creative quality through strong brand strategy, client management, and team dynamics.
• Inspire creative teams to produce the best work possible through a deep understanding of the current advertising landscape as well as technological trends and innovations.
• Develop innovative creative strategies and ideas.
• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration.
• Manage the workload for assigned account(s) to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand and appreciate their marketing challenges and are responsive to their strategic needs.
• Ensure that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
• Work with account services to foster client relationships.
• Work with upper management to plan and participate in new business development, client presentations, and selling creative concepts internally and externally.
• Work with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
• Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Creative Direction.
• Pharma agency experience is a must.
• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment across HCP and DTC projects, including high-science projects.
• Onset and production experience.
• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically.
• The ability to work collaboratively with account management and strategy.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Successful experience in managing and leading creatives.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, dental, and vision.
• Disability and 401K plans.
• Parental and family care leave.
• Family forming assistance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible time off.

Pay

Compensation Range: USD $129,485.00 - USD $207,324.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position.