Director Creative Services

rednucleus Open · verified Sep 13, 2026

Yardley Full-time Director Creative

Leadership Creative role at rednucleus. Yardley · full-time.

Role brief

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What you'll do

You'll lead Creative Services, guide its teams, and plan staffing around delivery needs
You'll set team standards, workflows, and training resources to keep guidance consistent
You'll shape, present, and defend visual concepts with clients and internal partners
You'll oversee print and digital design from concept through completion while tracking revisions and specifications
You'll research or commission visual assets and explain design decisions in creative reviews

What you bring

Bring a bachelor’s degree in graphic design or visual communications
Have seven to ten years of agency design experience in promotional or medical communications, with senior scope requiring ten-plus
Know Adobe Suite deeply, especially InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat
Understand style sheets, master pages, and heavy typesetting, with rigorous attention to detail
Work effectively across creative and business leadership and understand in-house team dynamics

Who this fits

You'll suit a senior creative leader who can supervise teams, steward brands, and work directly with clients in life sciences or pharmaceuticals. This is a full-time role based in Yardley, United States.

From the employer

The Creative Director
will be responsible for managing the Creative Services Function within the Delivery Services Practice for Value and Evidence. They will partner with clients and cross-functional teams to shape compelling visual ideas and solutions that meet our clients’ needs.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in the Life Science / Pharmaceutical industry.

Duties/Responsibilities

Supervisory

Develops talent pipeline of existing and future staff

Gives strong, clear direction and supervises direct functions/departments effectively, positively, and in line with our business objectives

Manages Creative Services resource needs

Department Management

Owns development and maintenance of Creative Services best practices, processes, and training materials to provide standardized guidance to all direct reports

Assists with content development for business development activities

Presents and sells standard and innovative ideas internally and to clients

Collaborates with Industry Experts and Account, Content, and Editorial
team members as the job requires to develop communications and manage day-to-day activities

Creative Delivery

Understanding of the design and layout development process for print and digital from concept through completion

Maintains appropriate documentation tracking project development and changing specifications

Conducts research to select and secure suitable illustrative material or conceives and assigns production of material and detail to artists and photographers

Presents work, provides design rationale, and defends work in creative reviews or meetings

Client facing - needs understood and the creative strategy is meeting and, ideally, exceeding their expectations

Brand steward that understands the market, asks the right questions, and works with clients to solve strategic and creative issues

Requirements

Skill s and Abilities:

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or visual communications

Minimum 7-10
years’ design experience in promotional or medical communication agency; Senior 10+ years
Proven ability to work cross functionally with creative and business leaders
Rigorous attention to detail and accuracy

Understanding of in-house creative team and related dynamics

Expert knowledge of Adobe Suite; primarily InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat

Expert knowledge of style sheets, master pages, heavy typesetting