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About the Role
VML Health is seeking a talented Associate Creative Director, Art, to lead and inspire a design team. This role involves creating visually stunning and impactful designs for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, translating complex information into engaging visuals, and fostering strong client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day leader of team(s) and actively guides team to produce visual designs that align to creative brief and solves client challenges in an original and innovative way.
- Contributes creative concepts and partners with Strategy teams to approve creative briefs as needed.
- Work closely with copy partner and guide team(s) to stay focused on the big idea.
- Contributes award-worthy concepts and recommendations to execute ideas.
- Leads production efforts and demonstrates ability to work within budget or can articulate justification to increase budget for projects.
- Foster strong relationships with clients and spot opportunities to enhance or build on a project (upsell).
- Able to present confidently to client and clearly communicate how creative work/design meets the strategic and business objective.
- Manage multiple projects, sometimes for various brands with different scopes and ensure all project of self and team deadlines are met.
- Develop visually compelling designs for a variety of channels, including digital, print, video, and social media.
- Ensure all designs are on-brand and aligned with marketing objectives.
- Mentor and develop junior art directors and designers.
Requirements
- Strong proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
- A portfolio that demonstrates creative and conceptual thinking and award-winning design, preferably in the healthcare/pharma industry.
- Excellent understanding of design principles, typography, and visual communication.
- The ability to translate complex information into visually engaging designs.
- 5-7 years of relevant client or agency experience with 3-5 years of supervisory experience.
Skills
- Creative thinking
- Strategic thinking
- Visual design
- Typography
- Visual communication
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Design principles
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Associate
- 3-5 years of supervisory experience
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000—$180,000 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 discrimination or 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.