Executive Creative Director, Health & Wellness

Dentsu · Boston · $285,200–$350,000 (stated in the posting)

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Job Description:

This Executive Creative Director will set the creative vision for a major health and wellness-related account with a meaningful focus on women's health. The role calls for a modern hands-on leader who understands how to build trust in sensitive health categories and can translate one strong brand platform through the line, including brand, social, content, retail, commerce, digital, experiential and emerging channels.

The Role 

As Executive Creative Director, you will partner with agency and client leadership to shape the future of the business and raise the creative ambition of the account. You will lead work that is culturally relevant, strategically rigorous, beautifully crafted, and effective across the full customer journey. 

You bring credible experience in health and wellness, ideally with direct exposure to women's health or adjacent categories. You understand the responsibility that comes with communicating about personal and complex health topics, and you know how to make the work clear, empathetic, inclusive, and motivating without losing creative impact. 

You will serve as the senior creative partner to the client, bringing a connected point of view across brand storytelling, social and creator-led work, retail environments, commerce, content, and activation. You will also build, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary teams, remaining close enough to the work to elevate ideas and execution at every stage. You will report directly to the US Chief Creative Officer.

Candidates for this opportunity can reside in: Boston, New York, Connecticut or Rhode Island.

What You Will Lead 

• The overarching creative vision and standards for the account, from long-term brand platforms to fast-moving channel and retail activations. 
• Connected ideas that travel seamlessly across brand, social, content, creator and influencer, digital, retail, commerce, experiential, CRM, OOH, and video. 
• Creative approaches that reflect the realities of women's lives and health journeys, with the nuance and credibility required for sensitive topics. 
• Senior client relationships, executive-level presentations, and creative counsel that builds confidence, unlocks ambition, and supports account growth. 
• Multidisciplinary creative teams across art, copy, design, experience, social, content, and production. 

Creative Excellence 

You will: 

• Set a clear creative vision and raise the standard of the work across every brief, channel, and audience touchpoint. 
• Champion through-the-line thinking, ensuring the brand idea is coherent and distinctive while being purpose-built for each channel. 
• Guide teams from insight and ideation through production and launch, protecting the integrity, quality, and effectiveness of the work. 
• Balance emotional storytelling with clarity, credibility, and the practical information consumers need to navigate health decisions. 
• Bring a strong understanding of modern culture, social behaviors, creators, retail environments, and commerce experiences to the work. 
• Use innovation, technology, and AI thoughtfully to improve creative exploration, personalization, production, and relevance. 
• Recognize creative opportunity in every assignment, including complex, regulated, educational, or retail-led briefs. 

Women's Health + Wellness Expertise 

You will: 

• Bring meaningful professional experience in health and wellness, with a strong preference for work in women's health or closely related categories. 
• Understand how to build trust around topics that may be personal, sensitive, stigmatized, or medically complex. 
• Ensure the work reflects women as multidimensional people, avoids stereotypes, and considers varied life stages, backgrounds, access needs, and health experiences. 
• Partner closely with strategy, medical, legal, regulatory, and client stakeholders to create work that is both creatively compelling and responsible. 
• Translate scientific, product, or category complexity into human, accessible ideas without oversimplifying the subject or compromising accuracy. 
• Stay current on cultural conversations, consumer expectations, category innovation, and changing behaviors within health and wellness. 

Client Partnership + Growth 

You will: 

• Act as the senior creative partner to the client, offering clear counsel on brand, culture, channel strategy, and creative opportunity. 
• Build trusted relationships with senior marketers and cross-functional client partners, including brand, social, shopper, retail, commerce, and communications teams. 
• Present ideas with clarity and conviction, explaining both the creative ambition and the strategic rationale behind the work. 
• Identify organic growth opportunities and help shape new briefs, capabilities, and ways of working. 
• Partner with Strategy, Account Leadership, Production, Media, Experience, and Commerce to solve complex business and consumer challenges. 

Leading the Team 

You will: 

• Guide, mentor, and inspire creatives at all levels while remaining an active creative contributor. 
• Build the right team structure for the account and match talent to the needs of integrated assignments. 
• Set clear expectations, provide direct and useful feedback, and create meaningful growth opportunities. 
• Partner with Talent, HR, and Creative Resource Management on hiring, development, succession, allocation, and retention. 
• Foster a culture of curiosity, craft, accountability, inclusion, and collaboration. 

Operational Leadership 

You will: 

• Partner with cross-functional leads to establish seamless, efficient ways of working across integrated workstreams. 
• Create the conditions for teams to move quickly while preserving strategic rigor, craft, and appropriate review. 
• Oversee creative scoping and team allocation in partnership with Account Leadership, Production, and Resource Management. 
• Anticipate delivery risks, resolve barriers, and maintain quality across concurrent projects and channels. 
• Contribute to the broader creative culture through mentoring, programming, talent development, and agency initiatives. 

Qualifications 

• 15+ years of experience in creative leadership within an agency, brand, health, wellness, consumer, or related environment. 
• Demonstrated experience leading health and wellness work; experience in women's health or an adjacent category is strongly preferred. 
• A portfolio showing standout integrated work across brand and channel ecosystems, with clear examples spanning several of the following: social, content, retail, commerce, digital, experiential, OOH, video, CRM, creator, and influencer. 
• Proven ability to build a central creative idea and adapt it effectively across the full customer journey rather than treating channels as isolated executions. 
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams and complex client relationships. 
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and defend creative recommendations with clarity. 
• Comfort working within regulated or high-scrutiny categories and collaborating with medical, legal, and regulatory partners. 
• A track record of attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing creative talent. 
• Bachelor's degree in advertising, design, marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

The annual base salary range for this position is $285,200 - $350,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.  Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.  

Benefits available with this position include:  

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, 

• Life insurance,  

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 

• 401k,  

• Flexible paid time off, 

• At least 15 paid holidays per year, 

• Paid sick and safe leave, and 

• Paid parental leave. 

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.  For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. 

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. 

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