Design Lead, Pharma - Brand & Digital

About

You've seen what happens when a brand has a beautiful campaign and a website that looks like it came from a different agency — and you've spent your career stopping that from happening. You can build the style guide, design the wireframe, and lay out the deck, and you can hold a thread of visual logic across all of them. That's the muscle we need.

What You'll Own

• Push the taste bar.
• Build the brand design system for a DTC pharma product launch — style guide, component library, type and color systems, the rules creative and digital teams use.
• Lead UX and UI for branded and unbranded websites.
• Translate campaign concepts into design across decks, comps, mood, and the broader visual world of a platform idea.
• Concept alongside the creative team when the brief calls for it.
• Embed with the creative team as the design craft specialist who keeps the system coherent as it scales from launch into year two and beyond.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of agency experience designing brand systems, digital execution, and campaign craft.
• A book that shows 2 or more of these things: a brand guideline you authored, a website you designed, and campaign work where you helped get to the idea, not just dress it.
• Pharma DTC experience is a plus; so is work in adjacent regulated categories — beauty, wellness, consumer health, biotech, anything where claims matter and constraints are real.
• Figma fluency.
• You can hand off a file a developer doesn't hate.
• Expert-level Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Google Slides for client work.
• Comfort with current AI design tools.
• You can structure a user flow, pressure-test an IA, and think responsively.
• You don't need to be a researcher, but you know how a real site behaves before it gets built.

Non-Negotiable

• This role is pharma. You don't have to come from it, but you have to want it.
• The work lives inside MLR, ISI, and FDA constraints that aren't going away — you'll get fluent fast if you aren't already.
• We need someone who reads that as a creative challenge worth showing up for, not a tax on the work.

The Setup

• Where: Loft office in NoHo.
• How: In office Tue–Thu. WFH Mon & Fri.
• Salary Range: $130,000 - $175,000