Senior Director – Creative & Production, Global Communications

About the role

The Senior Director, Creative & Production sets the creative vision within Global Communications for how Lilly's news, stories, and brand come to life across our owned channels and content. This leader operates with the pace of a newsroom and the craft of a best-in-class creative studio, building and leading a team that moves at the speed of the conversation, concepting, producing, and shipping high-quality work against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge.

Responsibilities

• Set the creative vision and direction for Global Communications — partnering with the masterbrand team to carry Lilly’s visual identity into everything we make and evolve how the brand shows up in storytelling.
• Concept and produce social-first, channel-native content in close partnership with the Senior Director, Digital & Social Media — bringing the editorial vision and calendar to life across LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube, and Lilly.com.
• Build and lead an in-house creative studio across video, design, and multimedia that produces against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge — at newsroom pace, without compromising craft.
• Champion storytelling excellence across Global Communications — finding the human truth in complex science and strategy and shaping it into clear, emotionally compelling narratives that connect Lilly's work to the people it's for.
• Push creative boundaries with new technology — integrating automation, generative and agentic AI, and intelligent workflows that increase speed, precision, and consistency.
• Own how creative moves through the pipeline — the project tracking, milestone management, and operating rhythms that keep work efficient, on time, and visible to leadership.
• Scale production beyond the in-house team — building and stewarding a network of agencies and freelance creatives, and partnering closely with Thread Collective, Lilly’s in-house agency, on execution, shared resources, and budget.
• Activate Lilly’s history as a strategic storytelling asset, leading the historians and archivists who preserve it and bring it into narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.
• Partner across Global Communications — with Enterprise and Executive Communications, Workforce Engagement, and therapeutic area and business unit teams — to translate strategy into campaign, launch, and leadership creative.
• Own rights, licensing, and consent across produced content — music, talent, stock, and patient and caregiver imagery — ensuring everything is properly cleared before it ships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, advertising, journalism, design, or a related creative field.
• 10+ years of creative and leadership experience within a corporate, agency, or global communications environment, with deep experience in consumer brand, retail, sportswear, ecommerce, healthcare/pharma, or other high-velocity consumer categories.

Skills

• Experience creating strategic, channel-native social media content optimized for performance across platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube.
• Validated experience in a fast-paced newsroom or newsroom-style environment, where speed, editorial judgment, and reputation pressure are constant.
• Extensive portfolio demonstrating creative excellence across various media, including video, design, and multimedia, with a focus on enterprise storytelling.
• Experience using data and insights to inform creative strategy and evaluate content impact.
• Deep technical expertise in design software (Adobe Creative Suite) and proficiency with emerging AI-powered design tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

Pay

$154,500 - $226,600

Schedule

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).