Orchard - Senior Art Director (Health)

Enero•New York, NY

21h•Remote

About The Position

Orchard is seeking a Senior Art Director to lead creative ideas, craft, and direction across channels while providing hands-on design leadership and mentoring. The role is approximately 70% creating and 30% mentoring and supporting the team. Reporting to the Creative Director, the Senior Art Director balances design execution with creative leadership, raises craft standards, improves ways of working, and owns day-to-day creative delivery. The position manages campaigns from concept through final execution, keeping team members aligned with deadlines, and contributes to new-business ideas, pitches, presentations, and delivery. Work spans health and pharmaceutical clients and a broad range of projects and formats, including brand identity, campaign rollouts, print and digital assets, leave-behinds, animation storyboards, conference and event collateral, OOH, experiential, large format, POS, 3D and structural work, sales aids, eDMs, websites, and social content. The role includes client-facing creative leadership, briefing and status meetings, presenting work, developing ideas and rationales, and maintaining close knowledge of client brand guidelines. The Senior Art Director will use Figma and Adobe Creative Suite to create and manage design systems and collaborative workflows, and champion thoughtful experimentation with AI tools and workflows. The role is expected to be remote, with some travel to New Jersey, USA, potentially required. Availability to work 9am–5pm in the US East Coast time zone is essential. Candidates must have in-depth knowledge of US regulations, including FDA promotional regulations and the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Health Care Professionals.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in a similar creative role, with a track record of conceptualizing and executing impactful creative across platforms.
Essential health or pharmaceutical experience.
Strong leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to support and inspire a creative team.
A portfolio demonstrating the ability to take concepts through to finished work across digital, print, OOH, social, campaigns, and pitches.
Experience designing for print, digital, 3D, structural, experiential, social, animation, large format, and POS, across the listed creative deliverables.
Proven experience leading and delivering new-business pitches.
Advanced fluency in Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, and in Figma.
Extensive experience conceptualizing and executing original ideas within established brand guidelines, including campaign concepting, branding, production, and multi-channel rollout.
Confident communication skills and the ability to inspire clients and colleagues.
Curiosity about AI and comfort experimenting with AI-assisted creative workflows.
Strong work ethic, creative passion, positive energy, and the ability to thrive on challenges.
Availability to work 9am–5pm in the US East Coast time zone.
In-depth knowledge of US regulations, including FDA promotional regulations and the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Health Care Professionals.

Nice To Haves

Cinema 4D or similar 3D software experience.
Experience with Unreal, After Effects, and/or Premiere.
A background in retail marketing (online or in-store), OOH advertising, film/TV, gaming, or consumer electronics.

Responsibilities

Deliver high-quality creative ideas and design across digital and print.
Execute creative solutions from concept to final delivery, including typography, branding, campaign rollouts, leave-behinds, animation storyboards, and sales or educational collateral.
Develop assets for social, eDMs, websites, conferences and events, OOH, experiential, large format, POS, 3D, and structural applications.
Lead and contribute creative ideas, execution, presentations, and delivery for new-business pitches.
Present design thinking in client presentations and internal forums.
Interpret and question client briefs, develop clear ideas and rationales, and apply client brand guidelines.
Act as a client-facing creative lead, build day-to-day relationships, attend status and briefing meetings, and present creative work.
Guide projects from initial mood boards and scamps through final execution.
Apply a multi-channel perspective and awareness of industry trends to advance client brands with ideas-led work.
Use Figma and Adobe Creative Suite to create, manage, and evolve design systems and collaborative workflows.
Champion and explore AI tools and workflows to support ideation, output quality, and new creative possibilities.
Mentor and support the creative team while maintaining hands-on involvement in design work.