Associate Creative Director (Art)

Klick; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Klick Group is seeking an Associate Creative Director (Art) to lead senior art direction for healthcare brands, shaping concepts, visual systems, and integrated campaigns from brief to final execution. You will partner with Copy, Strategy, Medical, and Regulatory teams to ensure medically accurate, visually distinctive work within regulated environments.

You will guide and review creatives, present thinking to senior stakeholders, and mentor art directors, designers, and junior team members

Qualifications

• 7+ years of art direction or design experience in advertising, healthcare communications, or related agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading conceptual creative work for healthcare/pharma with multi-channel campaigns.
• Portfolio showing strong art direction across campaigns, visual systems, typography, layout, digital, social, CRM, and presentations.
• Experience presenting work to senior stakeholders, explaining concept rationale and responses to feedback.
• Experience mentoring art directors, designers, or creatives through concept development and reviews.
• Comfort using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Design, Art Direction, Visual Communications, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead concept development and art direction for integrated healthcare campaigns across digital, social, CRM, print, and more.
• Direct visual quality and campaign systems, typography, layout, imagery, and channel adaptations.
• Collaborate with Copy, Strategy, Medical, Regulatory, and Client Services to balance creativity with scientific accuracy and regulatory needs.
• Present creative concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders and clients, incorporating feedback.
• Mentor art directors and designers throughout concept development and reviews; contribute to pitches and new business.

Skills

Art direction

Healthcare ads

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Presentation design

Mentoring

AI in workflow

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic visuals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

PowerPoint

Job description

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Oxford PharmaGenesis, Klick Katalyst, and btwelve), Klick Media, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), and Klick Consulting—is an ecosystem dedicated help life sciences brands achieve their full potential through best-in-class marketing and advertising, media, medical affairs and communications, market access, real-world evidence, and technology and analytics consulting — powered by 500+ in-house medical experts and award-winning data science and AI capabilities. Founded in 1997, we have offices in Toronto, New York, Oxford, London, Cambridge, Cardiff, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, São Paulo, and Singapore. One of the most-awarded health agencies on the planet, Klick is consistently recognised for its people-first culture as a Great Place to Work, Best Workplace for Women, Best Workplace for Inclusion, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and FORTUNE Best Workplace in Advertising. Klick also recently made history as Cannes Lions Healthcare Agency of the Year, Healthcare Network of the Year, and Independent Agency of the Year – Health.

About our Creative Craft

Our Creative Craft brings Klick’s ideas to life through storytelling, design, and experience. This craft blends imagination with strategy to create work that is emotionally resonant and culturally relevant. Creative teams collaborate across disciplines to simplify complexity and humanise healthcare. Their work drives engagement, understanding, and meaningful action across channels.

Job Description

The Associate Creative Director (Art) provides senior art direction across healthcare and pharmaceutical brands, shaping conceptual ideas, visual systems, and integrated campaign work from brief through final execution. The role partners closely with Copy, Strategy, Client Services, Medical, and Regulatory teams to ensure creative work is strategically grounded, visually distinctive, medically accurate, and appropriate for regulated environments. The Associate Creative Director (Art) also helps raise the standard of visual craft across teams by guiding creatives, reviewing work, and presenting creative thinking to senior internal and client stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Lead concept development and art direction for integrated healthcare and pharmaceutical campaigns across digital, social, CRM, print, presentation, experiential, and other client-facing channels from initial brief through final delivery.
• Direct visual quality across multiple projects and workstreams, shaping campaign systems, typography, layout, imagery, storyboards, digital experiences, and channel adaptations while maintaining consistency with strategy and brand objectives.
• Partner with Copy, Strategy, Medical, Regulatory, and Client Services to develop ideas that balance creative ambition, audience relevance, scientific accuracy, usability, and regulatory requirements.
• Present creative concepts, visual rationale, and campaign thinking to senior internal stakeholders and clients, responding to feedback while protecting the strategic and creative integrity of the work.
• Mentor and guide art directors and designers through concept development, reviews, and feedback while contributing senior creative thinking to pitches, new business opportunities, and broader account growth initiatives.

Qualifications

Required:

• 7+ years of art direction or design experience in advertising, marketing, healthcare communications, or a related agency environment, with portfolio examples showing progression from concept development through final execution.
• Demonstrated experience leading conceptual creative work for healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated and complex clients, with examples of integrated campaigns across multiple channels.
• Portfolio showing strong art direction across campaign concepts, visual systems, typography, layout, digital, social, CRM, presentations, and other multi-channel deliverables, with evidence of shaping overarching visual platforms.
• Experience presenting creative work to senior internal stakeholders and clients, including explaining concept rationale, visual decisions, audience relevance, and responses to feedback.
• Experience reviewing and directing visual work across multiple concurrent projects, including working within agency creative workflows and medical/regulatory approval processes while maintaining quality and deadlines.
• Experience mentoring or guiding art directors, designers, or other creatives through concept development, design reviews, and feedback, with evidence of helping improve creative quality or team capability.
• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience developing work across HCP, patient, payer, or disease awareness audiences, including adapting visual systems while maintaining strategic and medical accuracy.
• Experience contributing senior creative thinking to pitches, new business presentations, or client growth opportunities within healthcare, pharma, or life sciences.
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote, and presentation design tools, with examples of using them across client-facing creative development.
• Working knowledge of healthcare brand challenges, audience needs, therapeutic area considerations, and market dynamics, with examples of applying that understanding to visual creative work.
• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Design, Art Direction, Visual Communications, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Additional Information

Klick uses an AI-powered tool as part of an automated process to support our hiring process by analyzing your experience, skills, and qualifications to help identify alignment with role requirements. Please note that the tool does not make final decisions or automatically disqualify candidates. Hiring decisions are made by our team, with thoughtful human judgment and oversight. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices and have implemented safeguards to help mitigate bias and support compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions, accessibility needs, or concerns about the use of this tool, please contact us.
Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.
We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.