Ten Bridge Communications

Creative Director – Boston, MA or Remote in the US

Are you a Creative Director who lives to inspire others through visual design looking for a new leadership role? We’re a thriving strategic communications, digital and creative agency based in Boston that works with trailblazers in the biotech industry. We’re looking for someone with deep experience to set a vision for our creative work that encourages our team to innovate and will ultimately bring our clients’ messages to the next level. This will be accomplished by applying your experience working across multiple creative platforms: brand messaging, logo design, web design, and digital. This role reports to our CEO and President.

Note: This role is a remote-friendly position and can be based in any US location. Our HQ is in Boston, MA and some travel may be required. For candidates in the Boston area, we work with flexibility and in-office Tues. and Weds.

What You’ll Be Doing Day To Day

• Lead, guide, and manage team through the ideation and execution of all design projects.
• Participate in strategy meetings and partner with the account management team on the goals and health of the client relationship. This includes guiding creative content development for a wide range of client projects including branding, web sites, social media, corporate presentations and more.
• As the creative leader, you’ll interface with clients through all stages of the creative process and represent the agency in client meetings. This includes fostering highly collaborative, enduring client relationships across multiple accounts.
• Actively manage and mentor direct reports as well as other team members across the agency. You’re someone who dedicates time to this coaching and finds seeing others develop professionally rewarding.
• Evolve and lead creative direction for the Ten Bridge brand, website, and other key materials.
• Active participation in management and growth of the agency by contributing meaningfully to our internal initiatives, operations, and strategies to retain current clients and grow existing and new business. Your input will focus on nurturing a culture of learning, collaboration, and fun.

What You’ll Bring To Our Team

• Experience. 15+ years’ experience in visual design/art direction with significant experience working with biotech industry clients. 5+ years leading a creative team at an agency. Extensive use of creative programs including Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and related products), and Microsoft Office. You’ll embrace being able to shift between doing it yourself when needed and directing others. It’s all about a team mindset.
• Expert counsel. You build trust and partnerships with clients, confidently guiding all facets of their creative campaigns. Deep understanding of brand identity development and web design will be necessary.
• Inspiration. You will be a creative go-getter, have a strong understanding of design best practices, and be capable of being a creative leader. We will expect you to challenge the status quo and set the standard for our creative team’s deliverables. You are not content with just executing standards.
• An innovation mindset. You are equally a trend spotter and a trendsetter in biotech brands and communication trends. You engage yourself and your teams to find new approaches to programs and create new opportunities for clients. You ask, “How do we add more value?” You apply this same thinking to our internal operations.
• Integration and stewardship of our resources. You partner with other department heads to ensure that our cross-functional teams work together effectively and efficiently. You are always aware of how your team’s time is spent and what value is being created based on expectations set forth in our creative briefs. As a leader, you will find yourself making daily decisions at the intersection of people, creativity, and margin.
• Dedication to employee professional growth. You are drawn to managing/mentoring and have demonstrated success in helping your teams to grow their skills and advance their careers.

About Ten Bridge Communications

We are a growing team that is passionate about developing strategic and impactful communications, digital and creative work for our clients in the biotech industry who are dedicated to developing new and potentially life changing therapies for patients. We live our guiding principles of Belonging, Partnering, Engaging and Growing every day through our interactions with each other, our clients, and our broader community.

We offer a very competitive compensation and benefits package that includes generous paid time off, 401(k) match, ThrivePass monthly wellness benefit, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, cell phone reimbursement, pet insurance, professional development, volunteer opportunities and more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Ten Bridge Communications

Art Director – Boston, MA or Remote in the US

Are you an experienced digital design professional who lives to inspire others through visual storytelling? We’re a thriving strategic communications, digital and creative agency based in Boston that works with trailblazers in the biotech industry. We’re looking for someone with 7+ years experience in digital design who will bring their creative lense to leading, collaborating and creating projects across multiple platforms: brand messaging, logo design, web design, and digital.

Please Note: Our headquarters office is located in downtown Boston, MA. Our Boston area employees collaborate in office together two days a week with flexibility/remote work on other days. Our remote employees spend time in Boston for company, client and team meetings as needed.

What You’ll Be Doing Day To Day

• Lead the development of design concepts and direction for client projects including branding, website and experiential design, campaigns, environmental design, biomedical illustration, video and animation, and related projects.
• Make conceptual and stylistic decisions, create innovative and new design and concept layouts, mockups and prototypes to illustrate design ideas to other members of the team and client teams.
• Lead presentation of creative solutions to clients, responding to client feedback and requests for final approval.
• Help supervise project teams / staff and oversee multiple design projects at one time, ensuring all deadlines are met and providing quality control by reviewing and editing project team’s final products before distribution.
• Partner and collaborate with account team leaders for joint ownership, while driving a deep understanding of client brand strategy.
• Participate in and contribute to creative and account team meetings and ensure that all stakeholders are clear on outcomes, next steps and responsibilities.
• Contribute to defining, building and refining creative offerings and processes and to cultivate new and innovative methods and approaches to design challenges.
• Stay current on latest design trends, strategies and relevant technologies/tools.
• Embrace building and contributing to a collaborative, fun, and innovative creative environment for all.

What You’ll Bring To Our Team

• 7+ years digital design experience, with direct agency experience working with corporate clients preferred. Biotech industry knowledge is highly desirable, but we’re open to meeting talented professionals who have a desire to learn about this industry.
• Degree in graphic design, fine arts, advertising or related field. Digital design expert with the ability to design across all mediums. Strong art direction skills, including photo and video shoot expertise.
• You’ll be highly proficient with computer design tools, especially the Adobe Creative Suite, and a familiarity with web design technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, SquareSpace) and 3D design and rendering tools is a definite plus. You’ll also be working in Microsoft Office day to day and should have a strong command of those applications, PowerPoint in particular.
• Demonstrated conceptual design skills with the ability to build and convey strong and considered design rationale. You’ll have an established visual perspective with the ability to both advocate for design decisions and to be open to collaborative feedback that is integrated into final design solutions.
• Expert knowledge of design practices such as brand development, user-centered experience design, corporate presentation design and design for social media.
• Highly practiced presentation skills and strong client relationship management abilities. You’re organized to a fault. A detail-oriented and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills, someone who is comfortable communicating in person, in virtual meetings, phone, email and other communications tools.
• Prior experience mentoring and managing junior designers. You’re someone who thinks and acts on how to inspire creativity in others and themselves.

About Ten Bridge Communications

We are a growing team that is passionate about developing strategic and impactful communications, digital and creative work for our clients in the biotech industry who are dedicated to developing new and potentially life changing therapies for patients. We live our guiding principles of Belonging, Partnering, Engaging and Growing every day through our interactions with each other, our clients, and our broader community.

We offer a very competitive compensation and benefits package that includes generous paid time off, 401(k) match, ThrivePass monthly wellness benefit, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, cell phone reimbursement, pet insurance, professional development, volunteer opportunities and more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Ten Bridge Communications