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Associate Creative Director

Company description Heartbeat is a full-service agency for healthcare challenger brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes gamethey must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a "me-too" product into "yes-please." The agency is known for serving up distinctive strategies and differentiating approaches, ensuring clients' market positions are uniquely owned. Heartbeat designs their organization around a 100% integration model, housing media, strategy, med comms, creative, technology, and even point of care/population health under the same roof for the tightest, most integrated campaigns possible. They price work based on outcomes, not outputs. Their innovative model delivers not only alignment, but powerful orchestration, greater efficiency, and maximum impact for every dollar spentall the necessary elements for challengers to triumph.

Overview We're Heartbeat, the marketing agency for healthcare challenger brands and the brave clients behind them. And hopefully you're our next Associate Creative Director, helping us to deliver game-changing campaigns for consumers & HCPs. Read on to learn more about what qualities we're looking for in a new member of the crew and why you're gonna dig working with us.

Responsibilities

How you'll strengthen the team: Our team is looking for someone who is a strategic thinker and passionate about design. Beyond that, here's how you'll make your mark:

• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration.
• Inspire creative teams to produce the best work possible.
• Evaluate concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.
• Set high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique to the healthcare sector.
• Lead the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.
• Ensure that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
• Work with the Group Creative Director to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand and appreciate their marketing challenges and are responsive to their strategic needs.
• Train new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and work with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
• Work with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.
• Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.

Qualifications

What you're bringing with you: Across 6+ years of experience, you know what it takes to slay creative direction. These are the core skills you've totally nailed:

• HCP pharma agency art / design experience
• A proven track record of both conceptual and technical creative abilities
• Successful history of running large, AOR pieces of business
• Strong client contact experience and ability to grow business organically
• The ability to work collaboratively with account management and other cross-functional teams
• Excellent presentation skills
• Successful experience managing creatives
• Dependable with the ability to pivot between autonomous and highly collaborative work
• The availability to travel to meet client and agency needs
• The availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction

Additional information Hell yes, I want to do all of that. But tell me more about Heartbeat Heartbeat is a healthcare marketing & creative agency, headquartered in NYC and powered by ~300 smart people all over the US. In the past four years, we've been named a 4-time "Best Place to Work" by AdAge and MM+M and a "Diversity & Inclusion Champion" by MedAdNews. We care about three big things:

• Empowering challenger brands
• Being the best place you'll ever work
• Fostering a diverse & caring community

About Publicis Health & Publicis Groupe Heartbeat is a proud member of Publicis Health, the largest health communications network in the world. Publicis Health is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, the third-largest advertising and media company in the worldoffering us unparalleled global reach and resources. Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Diffrence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation range: $105,165 - $165,485 annually. This is the pay range the company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/22/2026.