Creative Director

Position Title: Creative Director

Assignment Duration: 3 Months

Work Location: South San Francisco, CA, 94080

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Tue-Wed-Thu in office)

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Creative Director to lead the medical content track. This role sits at the intersection of creative craft and scientific rigor: you will set the creative bar for medical and disease-state content, guide a multidisciplinary team of writers and designers, and ensure everything we produce is both compelling and compliant.

Background & Context:

This is not a traditional agency CD role. You will operate inside a regulated environment where creative ambition has to coexist with MLR review, fair balance, and evidence-based claims. The ideal candidate sees those constraints as design parameters, not obstacles.

Key Responsibilities:

* Own creative direction for medical and scientific content across formats: patient and HCP materials, disease-state education, congress assets, digital and social content, and internal scientific communications.

* Translate complex clinical data and scientific narratives into clear, accurate, and engaging creative work.

* Partner with medical affairs, brand marketing, and regulatory stakeholders to align creative concepts with medical strategy and label requirements.

* Lead and mentor medical writers, designers, and production staff; run creative reviews and elevate craft standards across the studio.

* Present creative work and rationale to senior stakeholders, and defend creative decisions with both aesthetic and scientific reasoning.

* Anticipate MLR feedback and build review-readiness into the creative process rather than treating it as a downstream gate.

* Contribute to studio playbooks: creative principles, medical content standards, and reference frameworks for future work.

Qualification & Experience:

* 10+ years in creative leadership, with at least 5 years directing medical, pharmaceutical, or healthcare content (in-house, med-comms agency, or healthcare advertising agency).

* Demonstrated portfolio of medical or scientific creative work - HCP campaigns, patient education, MOA storytelling, congress materials, or similar.

* Working fluency in the regulatory landscape for promotional and non-promotional medical content: FDA/OPDP expectations, fair balance, ISI placement, on-label vs. off-label boundaries.

* Experience leading work through MLR (or equivalent medical-legal-regulatory review) and collaborating productively with reviewers.

* Strong conceptual and visual judgment across print, digital, video, and presentation formats.

* Excellent stakeholder management; comfortable presenting to and negotiating with senior medical and commercial leaders.

Nice to Have:

* Oncology or biologics experience.

* Familiarity with Veeva Vault PromoMats or similar content management and review systems.

* Experience standing up or scaling an in-house studio or content team.

* AMA style familiarity; comfort reading clinical publications and prescribing information.