Art Supervisor (Pharma)
About The Position
The Art Supervisor at CG Life is a hands-on creative leader responsible for guiding visual concepting, art direction, and design execution across assigned brands. This role blends craft expertise with growing leadership responsibilities—advancing the visual expression of brands while mentoring junior and mid-level art team members. The Art Supervisor transforms complex medical and scientific information into clear, compelling visual storytelling, ensuring all creative work is strategically aligned, scientifically accurate, and compliant with pharmaceutical regulations. Working in close partnership with copy, strategy, account, and project management teams, the Art Supevisor ensures tactical work reflects strong conceptual thinking, craft excellence, and cohesive brand identity across channels. This role is client-facing and requires strong presentation skills, comfort defending creative thinking, and an ability to build trusting partnerships with internal and external collaborators.
Requirements
- 6+ years of design and art direction experience within advertising or creative agencies; pharma experience required.
- Strong conceptual thinking and a portfolio demonstrating integrated design excellence.
- Proven ability to translate scientific information into compelling visual communication.
- Strong client-facing presence and presentation skills.
- Experience mentoring and supporting junior creative talent.
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with motion, UX, or interactive tools is a plus.
- Strong understanding of marketing fundamentals, brand systems, and multichannel creative development.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, organization, and time-management skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting or contributing to pharmaceutical launches; rare disease experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Visual concepting for assigned projects, ensuring ideas align to strategy and elevate brand storytelling.
- Translate complex clinical/scientific information into clear, engaging, and compliant visual narratives.
- Develop visual systems, layouts, data visualizations, and brand elements that ladder to overarching campaign ideas.
- Guide photo direction, illustration approaches, typography, and design craft across deliverables.
- Ensure visual consistency and excellence across multichannel work, including print, digital, social, experiential, and motion.
- Partner closely with copy leads to bring unified storytelling to life.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—Strategy, Account, Project Management, UX, Development—to ensure creative accuracy and feasibility.
- Help shape creative recommendations and present work during client discussions, workshops, and reviews.
- Support new business efforts, including concepting and visual development.
- Provide constructive, actionable feedback to junior and mid-level designers and art directors.
- Support workload planning for direct reports and escalate risks when needed.
- Model craft excellence, inclusive leadership behaviors, and department best practices.
- Help grow team members’ skills in design, conceptual thinking, data visualization, and pharma-specific expectations.
- Demonstrate mastery in file-building, versioning, and production-ready deliverables.
- Maintain understanding of FDA/OPDP promotional regulations and ensure visual work adheres to compliance expectations.
- Apply accessibility best practices across executions.
- Build growing expertise in client business, competitors, therapeutic areas, and how creativity drives impact.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. We cover a generous portion of employee contributions
- 401K plan. We invest in present and future you, which is why we offer a generous match and immediate vesting on our plan
- Parental Leave. Generous paid time off for parents to bond with their newest addition
- Professional Development. Each employee has an annual budget to allocate to professional development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to take a workshop, attend a webinar, join associations, and do anything else that will help them grow in their careers.
- We offer flexible time off, life insurance, LTD, a robust employee assistance program, and more!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
51-100 employees
