ACD, Art

Fingerpaint Group; Cedar Knolls (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerpaint Group in Cedar Knolls, NJ is seeking a senior creative leader to drive the creative work across multiple accounts. You will assemble and guide teams, inspire concepts, and partner with account management to ensure client satisfaction with quality, value, and responsiveness.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong presentation skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines. Pharmaceutical experience and team management are preferred.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of experience in creative leadership.
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience.
• Experience managing creative teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative work produced across multiple accounts and teams.
• Assign teams and inspire high-quality concepts and final work.
• Collaborate with account management to ensure client satisfaction with quality and value.
• Lead concept presentations and participate in client meetings.
• Identify and interview prospective creative candidates and lead recruitment.
• Represent the agency at client meetings and events.

Skills

Creative leadership

Team management

Stakeholder collaboration

Presentation skills

Project management

Pharmaceutical advertising

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Position at Fingerpaint Marketing Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. From our inception, Fingerpaint has been driven by an unstoppable collective spirit of possibility. It’s that curiosity that’s at the heart of everything we do. From our legendary people-first culture to the hundreds of Fingerpainters who define us, we’ve reimagined what it means to be a healthcare and wellness advertising agency. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Objectives Of This Role

In this role you will be responsible for leading the creative work that is produced across a number of our accounts. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work, the value of our services, and our responsiveness to their needs.

What It Takes

• Ability to work collaboratively with other capabilities such as account management, project management, and more
• Manage workloads to maximize productivity of the art team, ensuring that everyone is busy and billable
• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and creative inspiration
• Work with ACD, Copy to produce standout and strategically focused concepts and campaigns
• Manage and work independently, under tight deadlines, while juggling multiple projects
• Estimate copy hours
• Participate in client meetings
• Lead concept presentations
• Provide written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, as well as ongoing feedback throughout the year (written when requested)
• Identify and interview prospective creative candidates
• Lead the creative teams in development of concepts and execution of all projects
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand their products and marketing challenges and are responsive to the strategic and creative needs
• Represent the agency at client meetings and social events as appropriate
• Strong presentation skills

Know-how

• 6-9 yrs experience
• Pharmaceutical experience
• Experience managing teams preferred

Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to all applicants and employees. We are proud to recruit qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.