Creative Director, Medical Content

Job Description

Pay: $ 44 - $ 68 /hr
3 - month assignment with a high possibility for extension based on performance and budget
Hybrid Position: Onsite Tuesday - Wednesday- Thursday in South San Francisco, CA

What You'll Do

• Own creative direction for medical and scientific content across formats: patient and HCP materials, disease-state education, congress assets, digital and social content, and internal scientific communications.
• Translate complex clinical data and scientific narratives into clear, accurate, and engaging creative work.
• Partner with medical affairs, brand marketing, and regulatory stakeholders to align creative concepts with medical strategy and label requirements.
• Lead and mentor medical writers, designers, and production staff; run creative reviews and elevate craft standards across the studio.
• Present creative work and rationale to senior stakeholders and defend creative decisions with both aesthetic and scientific reasoning.
• Anticipate MLR feedback and build review-readiness into the creative process rather than treating it as a downstream gate.
• Contribute to studio playbooks: creative principles, medical content standards, and reference frameworks for future work.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in creative leadership, with at least 4 - 5+ years directing medical, pharmaceutical, or healthcare content (in-house, med-comms agency, or healthcare advertising agency).
• Demonstrated portfolio of medical or scientific creative work — HCP campaigns, patient education, MOA storytelling, congress materials, or similar.
• Working fluency in the regulatory landscape for promotional and non-promotional medical content: FDA/OPDP expectations, fair balance, ISI placement, on-label vs. off-label boundaries.
• Experience leading work through MLR (or equivalent medical-legal-regulatory review) and collaborating productively with reviewers.
• Strong conceptual and visual judgment across print, digital, video, and presentation formats.
• Excellent stakeholder management; comfortable presenting to and negotiating with senior medical and commercial leaders.

Nice to Have

• Oncology or biologics experience.
• Familiarity with Veeva Vault PromoMats or similar content management and review systems.
• Experience standing up or scaling an in-house studio or content team.
• AMA style familiarity; comfort reading clinical publications and prescribing information.

Benefits

Our company offers our contractors a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.