Senior Art Director (Health)

About the Position

Orchard is seeking a Senior Art Director (Health) to drive creative excellence and direction across all channels. This role is pivotal in leading our creative team, providing ideation, problem-solving, mentoring, and quality control to meet our clients' needs. You will be a hands-on design leader, balancing creative execution with leadership, and elevating craft standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class creative ideas and design across digital and print.
• Execute solutions from concept to final delivery: typography, branding, campaign rollouts, leave-behinds, animation storyboards, and sales/educational collateral.
• Develop assets for a wide range of touchpoints: social, eDMs, websites, conference/event materials, OOH, experiential, large format, POS, 3D and structural.
• Lead and contribute to new business pitches with standout creative ideas, polished execution, and confident delivery.
• Present and deliver design thinking in client presentations and internal forums, delivering irresistible presentations that showcase solutions and astound clients.
• Decipher, question, and absorb briefs at client meetings, developing clear ideas with bulletproof rationales and knowing the client’s brand guidelines better than they do.
• Serve as a key client-facing creative lead, building strong day-to-day relationships, attending status and briefing meetings, and confidently presenting creative work that earns trust and drives results.
• Go the journey from initial mood boards and scamps, through to supporting the final execution. Live and breathe projects, big and small, approaching each challenge with passion, intelligence, and humor.
• Bring an inquisitive multi-channel mindset and a keen eye for the latest industry trends, helping push clients’ brands forward with big, ideas-led thinking.
• Use Figma and Adobe Creative Suite to create, manage, and evolve design systems and collaborative workflows.
• Embrace and champion AI tools and workflows as part of the creative process exploring how emerging technology can accelerate ideation, enhance output quality, and open up new creative possibilities for the team and our clients.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in a similar Creative role, with a demonstrated track record of conceptualising and executing impactful, engaging creative across platforms. Experience in health/pharma essential.
• Strong leadership and mentoring experience, able to support and inspire a creative team.
• A portfolio of previous work that shows the ability to turn a concept into a finished execution-spanning digital, print, OOH, social, campaign, and pitch work.
• Advanced fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Figma; Cinema 4D (or similar 3D software) highly regarded. Experience in Unreal, After Effects, and/or Premiere is a strong advantage.
• Extensive experience conceptualising and executing your own ideas within established brand guidelines, across campaign concepting, branding, production, and multi-channel rollout.
• A confident communicator who can inspire clients and colleagues alike.
• A genuine curiosity about AI and its role in the future of creativity - comfortable experimenting with AI-assisted workflows and keen to help build a culture where the team uses these tools thoughtfully and to their full potential.
• Passionate about ideas and the power of creativity to make real-world impact across any category. Background in retail marketing (online/in-store), OOH advertising, film/TV, gaming, or consumer electronics a bonus.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work remotely with some travel to New Jersey, USA.
• Availability to work 9am-5pm within the US East Coast time zone.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

About the Company

At Orchard, the future has always inspired us. As we imagine how people will connect, what they expect from brands, and where they'll turn for their essentials, we're driven by curiosity. This curiosity pushes us to see brands not as single moments, but as a web of connected experiences. In an era where every touchpoint is an opportunity to delight and engage, we fuse creativity, data, and technology to influence action across the entire customer journey.

Which is why, at Orchard, we rally around a single purpose: to invent better outcomes through creativity, data, and technology. Those better outcomes can only exist in the context of people irrespective of if we label them users, customers, patients, or clients.

Orchard Marketing is part of the Enero Group. As a Group, we proudly acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Our Innovate, Level 2, RAP endorsement aims to nurture, develop, encourage, and include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent, partners, and advisors both in our own agency, and across the broader industry. As such, we encourage peoples of all backgrounds to apply.