About the Role
RF Studio53 is seeking an articulate and intelligent Senior Art Director to lead and inspire the creative team, ensuring the continued creation of high-standard work for clients in the healthcare, technology, and life sciences sectors. This role involves developing powerful creative experiences through graphic design, moving image, and interactive content.
Responsibilities
- Develop clever creative ideas and conceptual thinking.
- Serve as an inspirational design leader and team player with excellent communication skills.
- Lead the development and execution of integrated creative campaigns across healthcare, consumer, and corporate communications clients.
- Partner directly with clients and cross-functional teams, serving as a trusted creative advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
- Create and maintain campaign visual identity systems, brand guidelines, and presentation materials that ensure consistency across channels.
- Mentor and support junior designers while helping to foster a collaborative, high-performing creative culture.
- Contribute to new business initiatives, creative pitches, and strategic growth opportunities for the studio.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working on print, brand, and digital projects.
- Experience working with different workflows and overseeing process.
- Ability to contribute to strategic thinking and the development and execution of programs.
- Demonstrated experience developing campaign visual identity systems, brand standards, and creative guidelines.
- Experience presenting creative concepts to clients and leading stakeholder discussions with confidence and professionalism.
- Experience managing, mentoring, or providing direction to junior creative team members is preferred.
Skills
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and PowerPoint.
- Experience working on digital deliverables and a keen interest in digital trends.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, team members and deadlines.
- Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows, including emerging capabilities within Adobe Creative Cloud and other industry-leading platforms.
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000 - $135,000
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
About the Company
- RF Studio53 is a New York-based creative studio focused on building powerful creative experiences through graphic design, moving image, interactive content and much more.
- Working internationally with leading businesses and industry associations within the healthcare, technology, and life sciences sectors, we specialize in communicating innovation and change in ways which people embrace.
- Our work reaches people through brand communications, advocacy, corporate storytelling, employee engagement, brand strategy, paid media and all the spaces in between.
Equal Opportunity
- Ruder Finn provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Ruder Finn will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
- Ruder Finn believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
