Associate Creative Director - Art - Health- Freelance

VML · New York, New York, United States

  • Junior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-08-24
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Associate Creative Director- ART- (HEALTH/Pharma) - Freelance

VML, North America

Location: Hybrid// or //Remote

SUMMARY

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

Who we are looking for:

VML Health is seeking an Associate Creative Director, ART - Freelance for a hybrid/remote role. The ACD, Art- Freelance is a visual storyteller who works closely with copywriters and strategists to conceive and create concepts for digital, social and traditional channels that directly impact the Consumers Experience for a large Pharma Brand and will create Art and Design that enhances connected experiences, across all possible ways a consumer can interact with a brand: i.e. via desktop, mobile, social, etc. The entire creative team will work together to translate these ideas from the written tone into a finished ad to meet our clients’ business objectives. Our creative teams always strive to create boundary pushing, award-winning work. Demonstrated experience in either HCP or DTC conceptual campaigns with both Art and Design flair is essential.

What you’ll do:

• Manage | Provide creative leadership as well as vision and inspiration to creative staff. Own assigned projects and manage all aspects of the assignment, team, creative work, budget, and presenting. Work with Creative Directors ensuring quality and accuracy on all creative products. Make recommendations to senior leadership and other team members on how to improve process and product deliverables through launch.

• Create | Demonstrate creativity through efficiently conceptualizing, planning, producing, refining, and leading a diverse range of creative ideas and concepts. Work in a hands on Art/Design capacity and performs those duties. Present creative rationale during internal and client presentations. Drive the creative solution. Offer proactive concepts and ensure successful progression.

• Collaborate | Communicate with client service Account Director(s) and Delivery Leads regarding business scopes, financials, schedules, and planning. Collaborate with creative leaders with all creative deliverables and progress towards launch.

Who you are:

• Leader | Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability and appetite to create bring people together. Posses an Innate knack to marshal people and create gravity around ideas. Prioritize, organize and multi-task effectively. exhibit client service approach with results-driven performance. Effectively solve marketing problems with creative solutions.

• Open and collaborative | Our team is close-knit and supportive and we’re working with a lot of unknowns – you must be a champion of team environments that are comfortable with ambiguity and encourage collaboration. Accept constructive internal and client comments with regard to concepts and copy.

• An experimenter | Embrace the unknown and ready to break process. You’ll be excited by opportunities to create new rather than default to plugging-in to existing ones, while leaning towards experimentation. You see technology as a tool for creativity. Provide guidance across departments in a team and matrix environment.

• Ego-less | We all wear the hats that need wearing, it’s a mentality that makes the team successful.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree plus seven or more years of copy experience in an advertising, marketing or experiential, creative agency environment.

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