Senior Art Director
About the role
Haymarket Media, Inc. is seeking a Senior Art Director to join the PRI Creative team. This position is located in our Paramus, NJ office on a hybrid work schedule; three (3) days in office depending on business needs.
Roles & Responsibilities
Leading and overseeing high-quality visual content across various media—including print, digital, and event deliverables—while ensuring strict alignment with brand standards, client objectives, and production specifications.
Strategic thinking, team leadership, project management, and pre-press production.
Creating mock-ups and visual materials for pitches, presentations, and proposals.
Presenting work directly to clients, confidently defending design concepts, and incorporating client feedback while maintaining creative integrity.
Led the creative process from concept to final execution, ensuring every project stays true to the original vision.
Works closely with the Associate Creative Director, designers, development, and cross-functional teams (including scientific writers, editorial, client services, program management, and marketing).
Occasional travel for client meetings, presentations, pitch collaborations, or live press checks.
Creative Leadership & Strategy
Serves as a creative leader, mentoring, guiding, and providing direction to junior and mid-level designers.
Develops and presents high-level creative concepts, visual narratives, and design systems aligned with project goals, client needs, and brand identity.
Assists the Associate Creative Director in shaping and enforcing brand strategies, serving as an expert on client and internal brand guidelines.
Creative Development & Design Execution
Produces high-quality and strategically sound visual designs across multiple platforms, including print, digital, web, branding, and event materials.
Reviews and refines design work to uphold brand consistency, design integrity, and industry best practices.
Collaborates with writers, marketing teams, editorial, and developers to ensure cohesive storytelling and visual communication.
Generates design concepts, mock-ups, custom program materials, and final designs based on client-selected comps.
Creates custom images, graphic elements, charts, figures, data visualizations, and infographics to enhance communication.
Performs image sourcing, photo manipulation, and digital asset creation/edits for web and multi-format distribution.
Stays updated on design trends, emerging technologies, and industry tools to continuously push creative boundaries.
Production & Quality Control
Leads end-to-end quality control (QC) oversight throughout the design and production process, performing meticulous self-QC and peer reviews.
Prepares, packages, and finalizes files for print or web production and release to developers, printers or clients, ensuring proper pre-press setup, color management, and specifications.
Reviews and approves printer proofs, attending press checks as needed to ensure print quality, color fidelity, and paper stock accuracy.
Provides hands-on production assistance, including inputting edits/corrections, reformatting layouts, and releasing files.
Supports web production and digital asset collection, optimizing designs for various platforms and formats.
Collaboration, Client Relations & Project Management
Works closely with the Associate Creative Director to develop and refine design concepts.
Engages with clients to understand their business objectives, present work directly, defend concepts, and integrate feedback.
Manages projects and tasks within WorkFront, ensuring workflows, project scopes, and timelines are properly monitored.
Liaises with printers and outside vendors, providing detailed specifications, addressing questions, and coordinating order forms.
Skills & Experience
Education: Bachelor's degree (preferably in Graphic Design, Graphic Arts, or a related field.)
Experience: Minimum 15+ years of experience in publishing, advertising, media, or agency environments. Pharmaceutical industry experience is a PLUS.
Design Expertise: Demonstrates superior design skills and a strong portfolio showcasing work across digital, print, branding, event materials, and marketing deliverables.
Software Proficiency: Expert in industry-standard design tools including Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, Google Suite (Google Slides), and Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint).
Printer Production Knowledge: Strong understanding of printing processes, paper types, pre-press preparation, color management (CMYK/Pantone), pre-flight file release, and vendor collaboration.
Workfront & Project Management: Experience with Workfront is a plus, but not required. Must be willing to learn and use the platform to effectively manage tasks, workflows, timelines, and project deadlines.
Detail-Oriented & Organized: Highly meticulous, deadline-driven, and skilled in time management to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high standards.
Collaboration & Communication: Excels in both team-oriented and independent work settings, with strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to collaborate effectively across departments and present to clients.
What We Offer
A competitive compensation package
Paid annual vacation, holiday and sick time off
Comprehensive health plans including medical, dental and vision
Competitive 401(k) investment options and generous company matching program
Life insurance
Commuter benefits
Employee referral awards
Tuition reimbursement
Training opportunities through industry-recognized programs
A Three Week “Work from Anywhere” benefit, to ensure work life balance
About PRI
As the US-based medical communications division of Haymarket Media, PRI develops highly customized products for our pharmaceutical clients. The overarching goal is to develop impactful programs that elevate disease awareness and build brand affinity through scientifically-rigorous integrated marketing solutions. Our matrix client teams work tirelessly to ensure that our client-centric solutions take full advantage of our scientific and clinical knowledge, key opinion leader relationships, industry intelligence, marketing expertise, creative and digital innovation, advanced data analytics, exceptional program management, and expansive print/web/mobile distribution channels through our premier network of affiliated Haymarket Media medical brands.
About Haymarket
Haymarket Media, Inc. is an award-winning specialist content and information company. With more than 30 market-leading media brands, Haymarket offers unmatched expertise and insight through balanced, relevant, original content across a spectrum of media channels. Haymarket is home to highly regarded health care professional brands such as The Clinical Advisor, Dermatology Advisor, and MPR (Medical Professionals Reference) among a portfolio of HCP-focused, specialty-specific websites, as well as the esteemed business media titles including PRWeek, MM+M (Medical Marketing and Media), Campaign and McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. Haymarket Media, Inc. is the US division of Haymarket Media Group. Haymarket Media Group is a privately-owned media, data and information company, shaping a better future with remarkable content for specialist audiences across the world. The company has 1,300 employees across offices in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Germany and the Netherlands. Haymarket’s portfolio consists of more than 70 market-leading brands including Campaign, Third Sector, What Car?, MyCME and Asian Investor. Through live, digital, print, education, data, tech services, video and audio, Haymarket’s brands inspire, inform and empower clients and communities internationally. As a Certified B Corporation, we’re proud to be part of a community of companies working together for change, and taking part in collective action to advocate for a shared goal of a global economy that benefits people and the planet. An equal opportunity employer, Haymarket Media does not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other protected category recognized by state, federal, or local laws.