Associate Art Director

Lever, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical and dental benefits

15 days vacation plus 1 additional day

Unlimited flex time

$500 home office stipend

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking an Associate Art Director for a remote-first role in the United States, focusing on pharma and healthcare campaigns. You will lead art direction, ensuring brand strategy alignment and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will mentor designers, present concepts to clients, and translate clinical data into visual work across print, digital, social, and omnichannel. This role rewards creative initiative and regulatory savvy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field.
• 2 years of advertising agency experience, pharma/healthcare preferred.
• Portfolio showing conceptual thinking across print, digital, social, omnichannel.
• Strong visual storytelling rooted in branding and typography.
• Excellent communication, able to defend creative rationale.
• Mentoring experience and ability to juggle multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead art direction and execution of integrated campaigns for pharma/healthcare brands.
• Partner with Copy Supervisors to balance storytelling with regulatory accuracy.
• Mentor Art Directors and Designers with feedback and growth opportunities.
• Present creative concepts to clients and teams with strategic rationale.
• Guide projects from concept through production with consistency.
• Translate clinical data and market trends into visual work across channels.
• Push for innovative approaches beyond the safe to elevate work.

Skills

Art direction & leadership

Strong visual storytelling

Excellent communication & presentation

Mentoring creative talent

Conceptual thinking & portfolio

Regulatory awareness (pharma)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Advertising, Fine Arts, or equivalent experience

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

AI-powered creative tools

Job description

The kind of Associate Art Director we're looking for:

You're early in your art direction career but you already think like a leader. You know how to take a strategic brief and turn it into something visually sharp, and you're hungry to learn what it takes to do that inside pharma and healthcare, where the craft has to hold up to both a client and a regulatory review.

You're not looking to just execute what someone else already figured out, you want to be in the room when the concept takes shape. If you've been pushing your design work past "good enough" and you're ready to grow into the person other people trust with a brand's visual direction, this is where that starts.

What you'll do

• Lead art direction and execution of integrated campaigns across assigned pharma and healthcare brands, keeping every deliverable aligned to brand strategy and client objectives

• Partner with Copy Supervisors and cross-functional teams to build creative that balances storytelling with scientific accuracy and regulatory compliance

• Mentor Art Directors and Designers with direction, feedback, and real opportunities to grow

• Present creative concepts to clients and internal teams, owning the strategic rationale behind the work

• Guide projects from concept through final production without letting craft or consistency slip

• Translate clinical data, customer insights, and market trends into visual work across print, digital, social, and omnichannel

• Push for better, exploring new creative approaches and technologies rather than defaulting to what's safe

What this role is not

This isn't a purely hands-off management role, you're still expected to have a strong point of view on the work itself, not just delegate it. And it's not an entry point into pharma advertising, you should already know how MLR and regulatory review shape creative before you walk in.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Advertising, Fine Arts, or equivalent experience

• 2 years of advertising agency experience, pharma or healthcare marketing preferred

• A portfolio showing conceptual thinking and integrated campaign work across print, digital, social, and omnichannel

• Strong visual storytelling instincts grounded in branding, typography, layout, and design fundamentals

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable defending creative rationale to clients directly

• Proven experience mentoring creative talent while juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced agency environment

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and working knowledge of pharma regulatory review (FDA, OPDP, PAAB, ASC); familiarity with AI-powered creative tools is a plus

$85,000 - $110,000 a year

Compensation & Benefits

Full medical and dental benefits, 15 days vacation plus one additional day per year of service, unlimited flex time, and a $500 home office stipend at time of hire. Our hiring package is ever-evolving to meet the needs of our team.

The environment

P10 is remote-first, always has been. This role is open to candidates in the United States, with a preference for Eastern time zone. You'll be working inside a structure flat enough that your creative vision actually shapes client work.