Art Director

 

What You Will Be Doing:

Our team is seeking a Senior Manager with client experience and healthcare communications expertise to serve as a counselor to our clients for one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic integrated communications programs, supporting overall strategy, and advising healthcare clients. You will be a conceptual thinker with exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.

In addition, you should have an agency background in healthcare communications with experience working on pharmaceutical products and/or disease education programs, as well as knowledge of the media landscape and considerations in this space. The ideal candidate will have broad interest in the full remit of healthcare communications, including social/digital, earned media, data and regulatory milestones, and unbranded disease awareness programming. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have a specific interest or experience in celebrity campaigns.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage account team implementation of agreed-upon programs, ensuring quality standards are met and desired results are delivered on-budget
• Lead project management, ensuring all activities are moving forward and are within deadlines
• Coordinate among interdisciplinary team of research, creative, digital and media strategists
• Develop a range of external and media materials including press releases, key message documents, pitches, social media content, etc.
• Manage client status reports, including materials trackers, media trackers, and website analytics trackers.
• Manage event and activation logistics in a variety of settings
• Set and meet campaign measurement and evaluation criteria
• Identify training and development needs of junior staff and provide opportunities that enable staff members to reach their full potential
• Assist in financial management for clients, including development of invoices and activity reports

 What We Are Looking For:

• Experience working on multi-disciplinary (holistic) healthcare communication initiatives, ideally including disease education campaigns
• Familiarity with data and regulatory milestone communications
• Fluency and/or familiarity with earned, digital and social media
• Strong understanding of the relationship between traditional public relations and the use of current online/digital technology and social media
• Strong budgeting and financial management skills
• Experience with clients and accounts that are measurement and evaluation driven
• Strong presentation skills, poise, and professionalism
• Industry experience in healthcare communications and/or pharmaceuticals

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in public relations at an agency or corporate in-house (healthcare experience required)
• The ability to manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.
• Be a self-starter who works well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
• BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, or in a related field

 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $100,000 – $115,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Who We Are

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

VP, B2B Content Strategy Lead, Enterprise

Weber Shandwick, Boston

Weber Shandwick has an award-winning studio of writers, designers, producers, strategists, and storytellers. We create content for the world’s biggest global brands — go on, check out one of our highlight reels at http://www.webershandwick.com/.

We are seeking a visionary and experienced VP, B2B Content Strategy Lead to serve as a strategic client partner and team leader for one of our largest B2B enterprise accounts. In this role, you will be the senior-most content strategist on the business, responsible for driving the overarching content vision while building and nurturing strong client relationships. You will not only oversee the entire content ecosystem—from social and web to thought leadership and sales enablement—but also lead a dedicated team of content strategists, fostering their professional growth and managing team operations, including billability and resourcing. As a key client-facing leader, you will partner closely with our CX team to deliver an exceptional client experience and proactively identify opportunities to grow the engagement and introduce new, innovative services.

An ideal candidate will be passionate about telling strategic and creative stories on deadline and familiar with digital storytelling across earned, owned and paid media.

The ideal candidate would have:

• 7–10 years of content strategy experience, with a strong background in a marketing or communications agency setting.
• Extensive experience leading large-scale, integrated B2B content programs for enterprise-level clients, preferably within the science and technology sectors.
• Proven success in a senior, client-facing role, with demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted strategic advisor and build strong, lasting partnerships.
• Formal experience managing and mentoring a team, with a track record of developing talent and overseeing team responsibilities, including professional growth and utilization.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to identify and pursue opportunities for account growth and the introduction of new service offerings.
• Exceptional leadership and collaboration skills, with experience guiding cross-functional teams and partnering with senior-level clients.
• A deep understanding of B2B content best practices and a versatile portfolio showcasing expertise across a wide array of content channels and formats.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as the senior strategic content lead, building and maintaining strong client relationships and acting as a primary strategic partner.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of content strategists, overseeing their career development, performance, and day-to-day responsibilities.
• Drive the overall content strategy vision across all workstreams, ensuring it aligns with client business objectives and delivers measurable results.
• Partner with internal teams, including CX and analytics, to ensure a seamless client experience and identify opportunities for strategic growth.
• Provide senior oversight on all major content initiatives, from editorial calendar development to creative execution, ensuring the highest standards of quality.
• Champion B2B content innovation and best practices, bringing new ideas and strategic thinking to both the client and the internal team.

Salary Range: $119,000 USD – $155,000 USD

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Who We Are

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Senior Art Director, Health 

Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a Senior Art Director, Health to join their growing creative team and help push the craft across several high-profile healthcare accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work alongside a team of creative directors, copywriters, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in the digital/social space and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented designer. 

If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, get ready to play in that space. Whether driving a big project (a multi-channel campaign) or overseeing social creative, this candidate will be expected to deliver exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused visuals. 

The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria: 

RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Help lead design across a wide range of assignments, including identity work, campaign creative, social content, video, mockups, infographics, presentations, experiential and print collateral/OOH.
• Experience in designing for social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.) with an advanced understanding of best practices for creative, design, and layout.
• Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
• Create design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
• Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives. 
• Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
• Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers
• Cultivate an inclusive culture as a part of the team that values trust, honesty, and team accountability towards defined goals and results 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• 5+ years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency department or industry (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
• Prior healthcare/public health experience.
• Must have a portfolio.
• This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office two days per week.
• Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
• Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
• Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects and XD) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint). Understanding of print production, typography systems and layout fundamentals; any After Effects animation skills will be utilized
• Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML 

Salary Range: $80,000 USD – $110,000 USD

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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