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.

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