Creative Director

Princeton10; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

P10 is seeking a Creative Director to lead the development and delivery of exceptional creative work across art and copy for pharmaceutical and wellness clients, ensuring ideas are strategically grounded, creatively distinctive, and compliant within a highly regulated environment.

This fully remote, United States–based role (Eastern time preferred) reports to an executive creative leader and offers a base salary between $170,000 and $230,000, plus bonus and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 16+ years of creative experience, including pharma/healthcare agency work.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong foundation in either art or copy with ability to guide both.
• Portfolio showing strategically grounded concepts and multichannel campaigns.
• Proven experience leading complex, high-value client relationships.
• Strong business judgment on budgets, staffing, profitability, and growth.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance ambitious creativity with regulatory, operational, and commercial realities.

Responsibilities

• Set and uphold the creative vision across art and copy.
• Lead integrated creative strategy for multiple brands and channels.
• Guide Associate Creative Directors and other leaders with coaching and direction.
• Create integrated work uniting art and copy to meet strategic goals.
• Serve as senior creative voice in client discussions and executive meetings.
• Build senior client relationships linking recommendations to brand strategy.
• Provide decisive direction while navigating strategy, timelines, and resources.
• Ensure quality, regulatory viability, and strategic alignment across portfolio.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on briefs and brand plans.
• Develop leadership pipeline through coaching and succession planning.
• Monitor performance and health of the creative function to drive improvement.
• Stay ahead of healthcare, culture, tech, and creativity trends.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Healthcare advertising

Team leadership

Client relationships

Regulatory awareness

Art & copy foundation

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

$170,000 - $230,000 a year

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

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.