Creative Director

Princeton10
Philadelphia, PA
Remote

Who this role is best for

Creative professionals with pharmaceutical or healthcare experience and leadership acumen will find this remote leadership role in a regulated environment appealing.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 16+ years of healthcare advertising experience and a track record of leading creative teams
    — “At least 16 years of creative experience, including significant experience within a pharmaceutical or healthcare agency environment.”
  • Individuals who can bridge creative strategy with regulatory compliance and business goals
    — “Ability to balance ambitious creative thinking with strategic, regulatory, operational, and commercial realities.”
  • Creative leaders who prioritize team development and cross-functional collaboration
    — “Develop the department’s leadership pipeline through coaching, performance management, succession planning, and thoughtful delegation.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a deep understanding of complex regulatory environments in healthcare
    — “ensuring ideas are strategically grounded, creatively distinctive, and effective within a highly regulated environment.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to manage high-stakes client discussions and executive-level meetings
    — “Serve as the senior creative voice in high-stakes client discussions, brand planning, concept presentations, and executive-level meetings.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight integrated campaigns and strategic alignment with brand objectives in your portfolio
    — “portfolio demonstrating strategically grounded concepts, integrated campaigns, and high-quality work across multiple channels and audiences.”
  • Showcase experience in leading teams and resolving complex challenges in creative and operational contexts
    — “Provide decisive creative direction and resolve complex challenges involving strategy, craft, client feedback, regulatory requirements, timelines, staffing and resources.”
  • Emphasize your ability to build and maintain strong client relationships through creative insights
    — “Build trusted relationships with senior clients by connecting creative recommendations to brand strategy, audience needs, and business objectives.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • portfolio growth
  • client satisfaction
  • team development
Typical background
creative leadershipbrand strategydigital experience design

Skills & requirements

Required

Creative LeadershipBrand StrategyClient Relationship ManagementTeam DevelopmentStrategic Planning

Preferred

Digital TransformationHealthcare MarketingInnovation Management

About the role

Original posting from Princeton10 via Lever

We are looking for a Creative Director to join our team. You will lead the development and delivery of exceptional creative work across art and copy. You will set the creative vision for a portfolio of pharmaceutical and wellness clients, ensuring ideas are strategically grounded, creatively distinctive, and effective within a highly regulated environment. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, develop creative leaders, strengthen client relationships, and help shape the capabilities and standards that support P10’s continued growth. 

This role is open to remote candidates in the United States, with a preference for candidates in the Eastern time zone. You will report to an executive creative leader. 

Responsibilities:

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Set and uphold the creative vision, standards, and ways of working across art and copy.

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Lead integrated creative strategy and execution across a portfolio of brands, audiences, channels, and complex client assignments.

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Guide Associate Creative Directors and other creative leaders, ensuring teams have clear direction, effective coaching, and appropriate decision-making authority.

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Create an environment where art and copy operate as an integrated partnership and consistently produce strategically sound, compelling work.

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Serve as the senior creative voice in high-stakes client discussions, brand planning, concept presentations, and executive-level meetings.

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Build trusted relationships with senior clients by connecting creative recommendations to brand strategy, audience needs, and business objectives.

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Provide decisive creative direction and resolve complex challenges involving strategy, craft, client feedback, regulatory requirements, timelines, staffing and resources.

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Maintain accountability for the quality, strategic alignment, accuracy, and regulatory viability of creative work across the portfolio.

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Partner with cross-functional leaders to shape briefs, brand plans, communication strategies, and innovative client solutions.

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Develop the department’s leadership pipeline through coaching, performance management, succession planning, and thoughtful delegation.

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Monitor the performance and health of the creative function, using business and talent insights to improve quality, efficiency, collaboration, and scalability.

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Stay ahead of trends across healthcare, culture, technology, media, and creativity—translating relevant developments into stronger work and agency-wide points of view

Requirements:

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Bachelor’s degree in advertising, communications, marketing, design, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

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At least 16 years of creative experience, including significant experience within a pharmaceutical or healthcare agency environment.

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At least five years of progressive leadership experience, including responsibility for multidisciplinary teams and other people leaders with demonstrated success building teams, developing senior talent, managing performance, and planning resources across competing priorities.

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A strong foundation in either art or copy, with demonstrated ability to evaluate, direct, and elevate both disciplines.

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A portfolio demonstrating strategically grounded concepts, integrated campaigns, and high-quality work across multiple channels and audiences.

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Proven experience leading complex, high-value client relationships, brand planning, and creative work across multiple brands or accounts.

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Strong business judgment, including an understanding of scopes, budgets, staffing, utilization, profitability, and agency growth.

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Exceptional communication, presentation, influence, and relationship-building skills.

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Ability to balance ambitious creative thinking with strategic, regulatory, operational, and commercial realities

Compensation:

Our total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, medical benefits, 401k match and more. We are a fully remote company. 

Interested in working with us? Apply online today. For this role, a copy of your work portfolio will also be required for future interview stages. 

Not an agency*

The layer-laden teams. The prehistoric processes. The impersonal, ego-driven dog-and-pony shows. Take what you think you know about agencies and burn it. P10 was born of the idea that if something isn’t working—or could work better—change it. And that’s exactly what we did. We know that what we’re not makes us who we are. And we’re not just another agency. We are people driven by a palpable passion and purpose, felt by our clients from the very first conversation.  

P10 brings together a team of diverse, remote-only seasoned professionals to deliver exceptional value for our clients. Dare to do something different - join us.

Source: Princeton10 careers (Lever)

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