Healthmerch - Senior Creative Director

Creative design lead wanted! $3,000–$4,000 per month | Full-time | EST alignment Hi, I’m Benjamin, and at HealthMerch we partner with health organizations nationwide to create promotional products that truly make a difference. Our mission is to inform, educate, and engage communities through products that inspire and connect people to healthier outcomes. We combine creativity, knowledge, and teamwork to deliver solutions that have real impact. We’ve built a passionate and ambitious team that values inclusivity, fun collaboration, and doing things the right way. If you love creative challenges, want to help shape a recognizable brand, and enjoy working with a team that cares about both quality and impact, HealthMerch is a place where your work will be seen, appreciated, and make a difference. We’re looking for a Senior Creative Director. This is a hands-on role for someone who can elevate our creative standard across all HealthMerch visuals. You’ll combine strong design and illustration skills to bring cohesion, polish, and authority to our brand, while mentoring a small production team to deliver high-quality work. In this role, you will: 🎨 Own and uphold the HealthMerch and its sister company creative standard across all visuals 👩‍💻 Lead and mentor production designers to ensure polished, accurate client artwork 🖼️ Elevate client mockups with stronger layout, realism, and creative direction 📦 Ensure all print files are production-ready and meet vendor specifications 📧 Partner with Marketing to create email, landing page, and campaign visuals 💡 Lead creative direction for healthcare collections and awareness campaigns 🔗 Build cohesive design languages from client logos and campaign themes 📂 Develop and maintain brand guidelines, templates, and asset systems ⚖️ Balance high-volume production needs with long-term creative quality 🤝 Collaborate closely with Sales to support active deals with strong visuals This is a full-time role aligned with EST, for approximately 6 hours per day. Requirements To be a successful candidate, you need: ✅ 6+ years of professional graphic design experience ✅ 2+ years leading or mentoring designers ✅ Strong portfolio showing campaign work, branding, and print production ✅ Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop ✅ Experience preparing vendor-ready, production-accurate files ✅ Strong typography and layout fundamentals ✅ Experience building templates and brand systems that scale ✅ Ability to manage high-volume workflows without sacrificing quality ✅ Clear communicator who can work cross-functionally with Sales and Marketing ✅ Experience working with remote teams or across time zones Brownie points for: ⭐ Experience in healthcare, nonprofit, or advocacy-driven brands ⭐ Promotional products or merchandise industry background ⭐ Basic understanding of conversion and visual hierarchy ⭐ Experience in a CRM-driven marketing environment (HubSpot a plus) ⭐ Illustration skills or custom typography work ⭐ Light motion or animation experience ⭐ Photography direction or art direction on shoots The ideal candidate is proactive, organized, and calm under pressure, with a structured, detail-oriented approach. You’re a direct communicator with high ownership, comfortable setting standards, mentoring others, and collaborating across teams. You bring both high taste and resilience, ensuring creative excellence in everything you produce. Benefits What’s in it for you? 💰 Salary: $3,000–$4,000 per month* ⏰ Full-time | Fully remote 🌴 20 days PTO per year, including public holidays 💻 Work with a collaborative, supportive team of creatives 🎨 Opportunity to shape the visual identity of a recognized healthcare brand 📈 Lead and mentor a growing production design team - Please note that this is a gross salary and that you are responsible for any tax-related procedures in your country of residence. We kindly ask you to apply only if you are happy to work remotely as an independen