Executive Creative Director, Health & Wellness

Designer Jobs; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 285,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Flexible PTO

15 holidays per year

Job summary

Designer Jobs leads a major health and wellness account, focusing on women’s health with a strong creative mandate. You will shape the creative vision, guiding work across brand, social, content, and retail channels while maintaining credibility in sensitive health topics.

The role requires senior leadership to present to clients, mentor multidisciplinary teams, and drive growth. Located in Massachusetts on-site, full-time and permanent.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in creative leadership within an agency, brand, health, wellness, consumer, or related environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading health and wellness work; women’s health or an adjacent category is strongly preferred.
• Portfolio with standout integrated work across brand and channel ecosystems, with clear examples across several: social, content, retail, commerce, digital, experiential, OOH, video, CRM, creator, influencer.

Responsibilities

• Shaping the future of the business and raising creative ambition across the account.
• Set and uphold the overarching creative vision and standards across brand platforms and activations.
• Direct culturally relevant, strategically rigorous, high-quality work across the customer journey.
• Lead multidisciplinary creative teams spanning art, copy, design, experience, social, content, and production.
• Provide senior client relationships, executive-level presentations, and creative counsel to drive account growth.
• Balance emotional storytelling with clarity, credibility, and practical health information for consumers.

Skills

Creative leadership

Client relationships

Presentation skills

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in advertising, design, marketing, communications, or related field

Tools

AI

Job description

Lead creative transformation for a major health and wellness account with a meaningful focus on women’s health.

Responsibilities

• Partner with agency and client leadership to shape the future of the business and raise creative ambition across the account.
• Set and uphold the overarching creative vision and standards, from long-term brand platforms to fast-moving channel and retail activations.
• Direct culturally relevant, strategically rigorous, beautifully crafted work that performs across the full customer journey.
• Develop connected ideas that travel across brand, social, content, creator and influencer, digital, retail, commerce, experiential, CRM, OOH, and video.
• Lead creative approaches that reflect women’s lives and health journeys, including nuance and credibility for sensitive topics.
• Provide senior client relationships, executive-level presentations, and creative counsel to build confidence, unlock ambition, and support account growth.
• Lead multidisciplinary creative teams spanning art, copy, design, experience, social, content, and production.
• Champion through-the-line thinking to keep the brand idea coherent and distinctive while purpose-built per channel.
• Guide teams from insight and ideation through production and launch, protecting integrity, quality, and effectiveness.
• Balance emotional storytelling with clarity, credibility, and practical information consumers need to navigate health decisions.
• Bring strong understanding of modern culture, social behaviors, creators, retail environments, and commerce experiences.
• Use innovation, technology, and AI thoughtfully to improve creative exploration, personalization, production, and relevance.
• Recognize creative opportunity in every assignment, including complex, regulated, educational, or retail-led briefs.
• Serve as senior creative partner to the client with a connected point of view across brand storytelling, social and creator-led work, retail environments, commerce, content, and activation.
• Build, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary teams while staying close enough to the work to elevate ideas and execution at every stage.
• Report directly to the US Chief Creative Officer.
• Build trusted relationships with senior marketers and cross-functional client partners (brand, social, shopper, retail, commerce, and communications).
• Explain creative ambition and strategic rationale clearly when presenting ideas to senior stakeholders.
• Identify organic growth opportunities and help shape new briefs, capabilities, and ways of working.
• Partner with Strategy, Account Leadership, Production, Media, Experience, and Commerce to solve complex business and consumer challenges.
• Guide, mentor, and inspire creatives at all levels while contributing actively to creative work.
• Build the right team structure and match talent to integrated assignment needs.
• Set expectations, deliver direct and useful feedback, and create meaningful growth opportunities.
• Partner with Talent, HR, and Creative Resource Management on hiring, development, succession, allocation, and retention.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, craft, accountability, inclusion, and collaboration.
• Partner with cross-functional leads to establish seamless, efficient ways of working across integrated workstreams.
• Create conditions for fast movement while preserving strategic rigor, craft, and appropriate review.
• Oversee creative scoping and team allocation with Account Leadership, Production, and Resource Management.
• Anticipate delivery risks, remove barriers, and maintain quality across concurrent projects and channels.
• Contribute to the broader creative culture through mentoring, programming, talent development, and agency initiatives.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in creative leadership within an agency, brand, health, wellness, consumer, or related environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading health and wellness work; women’s health or an adjacent category is strongly preferred.
• Portfolio with standout integrated work across brand and channel ecosystems, with clear examples across several: social, content, retail, commerce, digital, experiential, OOH, video, CRM, creator, influencer.
• Proven ability to build a central creative idea and adapt it across the full customer journey (not isolated channel executions).
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams and managing complex client relationships.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including engaging senior stakeholders and defending creative recommendations clearly.
• Comfort working in regulated or high-scrutiny categories and collaborating with medical, legal, and regulatory partners.
• Track record of attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing creative talent.
• Bachelor’s degree in advertising, design, marketing, communications, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Technology

• AI

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave
• Discretionary incentive compensation

Location and Work Details

• Massachusetts (onsite)
• USA - Remote - Massachusetts
• Full time
• Permanent
• Candidates can reside in: Boston, New York, Connecticut or Rhode Isl

What You Will Lead

• The overarching creative vision and standards for the account, from long-term brand platforms to fast-moving channel and retail activations.
• Connected ideas across brand, social, content, creator and influencer, digital, retail, commerce, experiential, CRM, OOH, and video.
• Creative approaches that reflect the realities of women’s lives and health journeys for sensitive topics.
• Senior client relationships, executive-level presentations, and creative counsel supporting account growth.
• Multidisciplinary creative teams across art, copy, design, experience, social, content, and production.

Salary: USD 285,200 - 350,000 per year