Role Description We're looking for a visionary, brand-obsessed Art Director to join our Brand team at a leading financial services company. This person will be responsible for shaping the visual language of a complex, highly regulated brand ensuring creative output is consistently compelling, on-brand, and built for the real-world demands of a financial services audience. The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio spanning campaign creative, brand systems, and digital executions. You're equally comfortable driving the big visual idea and sweating the details of final production—and you understand what it means to create work that earns trust while breaking through. Experience navigating compliance review processes and designing within established brand guidelines is a meaningful advantage. Project Type: Contract Rate: $70/hour Role: Art Director Location: Remote (CST or EST preferred) Key Responsibilities - Visual Concept Development: Lead the ideation and visual development of integrated brand campaigns, from initial concept through final production. Translate strategic briefs into compelling creative directions that align with brand standards and resonate with financial services audiences. - Brand Stewardship: Serve as a guardian of the brand's visual identity—ensuring consistency across all touchpoints, channels, and markets. Evolve the visual system thoughtfully over time in partnership with brand leadership. - Creative Direction & Production Oversight: Art direct photo, video, and digital shoots; oversee design execution across channels including digital, social, OOH, print, and presentations. Partner closely with copywriters, designers, and production teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality output. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work in close partnership with copywriters, strategists, project managers, and business stakeholders to bring ideas to life on time and within scope. Navigate compliance and legal review cycles with professionalism and creative problem-solving. - Vendor & Agency Management: Manage relationships with external creative vendors, photographers, illustrators, and production partners. Provide clear creative briefs, art direction, and feedback to ensure quality and brand alignment. - Mentorship & Creative Culture: Contribute to a culture of craft and creative excellence within the brand team. Provide direction and constructive feedback to junior designers and creative partners, helping to raise the overall standard of work. Qualifications - 7–12 years of experience in art direction within an in-house brand team, creative agency, or marketing organization - Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual range, brand system fluency, and executional excellence across both digital and traditional channels - Experience working within or for a financial services, insurance, or other regulated industry brand is strongly preferred - Deep understanding of brand identity systems, visual storytelling, and multi-channel campaign design - Proven ability to manage creative projects from concept to delivery in a fast-paced, high-volume environment - Strong command of design tools including Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign); familiarity with Figma is a plus - Exceptional communication and presentation skills; able to articulate and sell creative ideas to senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction - Collaborative, low-ego creative leader who thrives in a structured, cross-functional environment and knows how to protect the work while remaining open to feedback

• Serve as a role model for Agency Vision and Values • Lead creative vision and copy direction across multiple brands, teams, and workstreams • Develop bold, strategic, insight-driven concepts that help brands stand apart • Translate complex science, data, and strategy into clear, compelling, audience-relevant stories • Set and uphold high standards for creative quality, conceptual thinking, storytelling, scientific accuracy, and brand voice • Write, edit, concept, and problem-solve whenever needed to help elevate the work • Oversee copy across campaigns, messaging platforms, launches, digital, social, print, video, CRM, presentations, and tactical executions • Partner closely with Art, Strategy, Account, Medical, Production, and Client teams to bring integrated ideas to life • Serve as a trusted senior creative partner to clients, presenting ideas with clarity, confidence, and strong strategic rationale • Lead or contribute meaningfully to new business pitches, creative workshops, brand planning, and high-priority agency initiatives • Mentor, manage, and develop multiple writers and creative teams, helping grow the next generation of creative leaders • Provide clear direction, constructive feedback, and ongoing coaching that strengthen craft, confidence, and leadership • Proactively manage workflow, priorities, staffing needs, and resource challenges across assigned brands • Partner with Creative leadership to improve processes, strengthen department standards, and elevate the agency’s creative product

• Define art direction systems for healthcare and consumer electronics: lighting logic, camera language, material behavior, composition, color control, use-context, screen treatment, packaging hierarchy, and product readability. • Direct work across medical devices, personal care technology, diagnostic products, wearables, smart home devices, appliances, accessories, packaging, and connected hardware. • Review renders with a trained eye: reflection control, plastic response, metal finish, glass behavior, edge definition, lighting falloff, screen glow, shadow language, scale cues, and compositing. • Work with CGI artists, 3D generalists, technical artists, retouchers, producers, and client teams to move from brief to image without losing the product’s truth. • Help shape production approaches that can generate many controlled outputs from a single product asset or scene setup. • Be responsible for the visual quality bar across projects that often involve multiple teams, markets, formats, and stakeholders.

• Lead the development and execution of strategic process design initiatives aligned to organizational priorities and transformation goals • Own the discovery, mapping and ongoing maintenance of the current-state patient and agent journeys • Define and evolve future-state operating models that support scalability, efficiency, and differentiated patient experience across programs. • Standardize key workflows, decision trees, and handoffs to improve right-first-time execution and reduce rework/defects. • Oversee the delivery of key components of the strategic plan, ensuring initiatives are executed effectively through cross-functional teams and/or external partners. • Provide directional leadership, enabling project teams to deliver on defined objectives. • Gain a deep understanding of HUB and pharmacy systems and their integrations, ensure proper flow or referrals between systems, and liaise with technology teams on ways to optimize. • Lead and influence matrixed teams, ensuring alignment with priorities and delivery expectations. • Ensure processes and operating models adhere to regulatory, compliance, and quality standards, including patient privacy and documentation requirements. • Coach teams on structured problem solving, process thinking, and change adoption. • Serve as submission owner through demand intake process. • Up to 25% travel.