Art Director

As an Art Director working for Digitas Health London, you will focus on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution. You will lead the conceptual, visual direction of our brands and develop innovative solutions that drive business results. You will play a crucial role in both the business success and the culture of the agency. We are seeking a talented midweight Art Director who is conceptually minded and able to take creative and strategic thinking and convert it into beautiful work through the initial ideation stage, design concepts and final delivery. You challenge how things are done and are always looking for a unique way to bring brands to life in a digital environment. You're a great communicator, engaging clients and colleagues alike with presentation skills often as powerful and persuasive as your creative. Your expertise in visual storytelling is essential for the success of campaigns and projects in the modern digital landscape. Responsibilities

• Creates intuitive, strategic concepts and solutions to a variety of briefs
• Works in a team with a copywriter to develop insightful ideas and produce engaging products across all platforms. Equally can collaborate with other member of creative and design team on projects
• Works alongside medical copywriters and other designers to develop exceptional creative output and relevant work, using the appropriate tools
• Sells the work with concise, convincing rationales and persuasive presentations and narrative
• Takes responsibility for the quality of art direction on assigned accounts
• Confidently leads creative discussions with clients, colleagues and partners; constructively resolves challenges
• Works in close, strong relationships with account leads and clients; informs management of account status, issues, and plans; identifies support needs
• Maintains a profile as a source of inspiration for creativity in healthcare and beyond
• Ensures strategy is clearly and cohesively applied; identifies where objectives are not being met or delivery is threatened and provides potential solutions
• Takes a role in development of creative content for proposals and pitches; proactively identifies organic growth opportunities for client and agency business
• Manages work independently, under tight deadlines while juggling multiple projects
• Supports the culture of the agency and champions the brand at all times
  
  You are a midweight art director who produces extraordinary work. You are strong strategically and adept with clients. You're a conceptual thinker who's able to take creative and strategic thinking and convert it into exceptional work across multiple platforms with digital at the core.
You work well with others in a multidisciplinary team to provide brand communications that challenge the health industry norm. You love what you do, and are committed to developing yourself and those around you.
• Proven conceptual creative (Art Director) experience at advertising agencies and/or as an in-house creative. Healthcare experience preferred, but not essential
• Significant proven experience of art direction, maintaining high standards across multiple accounts (experience in healthcare advertising ideal)
• A strong, varied conceptual and design portfolio demonstrating award-worthy digital centric ideas and brand experiences.
• In-depth understanding of industry design tools (Ex. Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma)
  
  Digitas Health London is the People-Powered Health agency: We help brands engage with people to deliver ideal health, now. We design transformative experiences that move people further along the path to health at any moment. By putting the power to change health outcomes in the hands of patients, healthcare professionals, carers, and payers, we help health brands create value across today's connected health ecosystem. To do this, we start with a generous, behaviour-driven ideal then work in lean, agile and iterative ways to turn the ideal into action.
We are a generous, idealistic, straight-talking collection of creatives, strategists, analysts, social media experts, PMs, and client service leads. We work together to help people-centric health brands deliver new business value through new customer experiences. Whether connected content programmes, mobile apps, digital services, or social communities, we use digital and emerging technologies to help healthcare brands build loyalty, break habits, connect care ecosystems and disrupt traditional markets. As part of Publicis Health, our small-but-mighty team works to bring applied innovation to a range of global, EMEA and UK clients, working in collaboration with other DH offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and other sister agencies in London, Windsor and around the world. Learn more about DH at www.digitashealth.com .

Digitas Health has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;
• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• "YOU" DAYS - flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.
Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us! Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week. We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process. Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).