Group Creative Director, Art (Health)

VML • New York, NY

9h • $125,000 - $295,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

VML Health is seeking a highly strategic and visually driven Group Creative Director, Art to lead and inspire our art and design teams. This role will be the go-to creative leader for assigned brands, providing thoughtful leadership, strategic clarity, and direction to develop strong visual concepts that solve clients’ business challenges. The GCD, Art will be a champion of innovative and elevated art direction and design, pushing boundaries and inspiring teams to create award-worthy work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, fine arts, visual communication, or related field.
• 10+ years of equivalent experience with 5+ years of supervisory experience, specifically in art direction and design.
• Portfolio that demonstrates creative and conceptual art and design thinking, preferably in the healthcare/pharma industry.
• Expert knowledge of design principles, typography, color theory, and visual communication.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and other relevant design software.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Possess a high degree of creativity: ability to generate innovative, award-worthy creative and strategic art and design ideas that solve clients’ business challenges.
• Display confident and persuasive presentation skills and can respond well to challenging client situations, particularly when defending art and design choices.
• Comfortable with pushing back on brief or strategic direction as necessary and collaborating with most senior level co-workers and clients, to ensure the best possible art and design outcomes.
• A visionary artist with a passion for creating impactful and persuasive visuals.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex information into clear and compelling visual concepts.
• An inspiring leader with a proven ability to mentor and develop art and design talent.

Responsibilities

• Go-to creative leader for assigned brands: provides thoughtful leadership, strategic clarity, inspiration and direction to teams and helps develop strong visual concepts that solve clients’ business challenges.
• Provide actionable, clear and strategic feedback for teams and help push the boundaries to encourage innovative and elevated art direction and design.
• Conceive and persuasively present award-worthy visual concepts and recommendations to internal teams and clients.
• Lead production efforts and demonstrate ability to work within budget or can articulate justification to increase budget for projects, ensuring art and design are effectively integrated.
• Foster strong relationships with clients and spot opportunities to enhance or build on a project (upsell), leveraging the power of compelling visuals.
• Identify when process or system is broken and proactively work with team to address any issues related to art and design workflows.
• Present confidently to client and clearly communicate how creative art and design work meets the strategic and business objective.
• Oversee and/or lead art and design teams in multiple locations.
• Manage multiple projects, sometimes for various brands with different scopes and ensure all project of self and team deadlines are met, with a focus on excellence in art direction and design.

Benefits

• Full spectrum of group health coverage options (medical, dental, vision)
• Generous 401k match (100% dollar-for-dollar match, up to 5% of salary contribution)
• Variety of paid time off offerings
• Real-time feedback
• Growth-oriented mindset
• Plenty of training opportunities through VML and WPP

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior