About the Role
VML Health is seeking a talented Art Director with a passion for healthcare communications to join their creative team. This role involves strategic thinking and visual storytelling to create compelling, compliant healthcare campaigns for healthcare professionals and patients.
Responsibilities
- Create visually compelling designs across multiple channels (print, digital, social)
- Partner with copywriters to develop innovative creative concepts
- Transform complex medical information into clear visual communications
- Lead the visual direction of projects from concept through execution
- Guide and mentor junior designers on the team
- Stay current with healthcare marketing trends and design innovations
- Present creative work to internal teams and clients
Requirements
- Strong portfolio demonstrating healthcare design expertise
- 3-5 years of art direction experience
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Understanding of digital design principles and UX best practices
- Healthcare/pharma experience preferred
- Experience with regulatory requirements a plus
Skills
- Visual storytelling
- Strategic thinking
- Conceptual abilities
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Digital design principles
- UX best practices
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $45,000—$100,000 USD
Benefits
- Group health coverage options (medical, dental, vision)
- Generous 401k match (100% dollar-for-dollar match, up to 5% of salary contribution)
- Variety of paid time off offerings
About the Company
- VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
- VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's.
- In 2026, VML was named Campaign’s Global Network of the Year and ranked #2 Creative Network of the Year at Cannes Lions.
- VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.
- VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
- Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
- VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between.
- It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a ‘vertical’) that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise.
- At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities.
- Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning.
- We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’.
- VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to characteristics.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
