Hiring: Creative Director Company: athenahealth Location: Massachusetts, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 13:09:44 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Content Strategy, SaaS, Segment, Spark About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive experience in creative roles, including concept development, art direction, or copywriting, with a strong portfolio of creative work. •At least 5 years in a creative leadership role managing and developing other creative talent. •Proven track record developing and pitching big creative concepts that were adopted and executed at an enterprise scale. •Strong, distinctive creative point of view, with the ability to generate original concepts rather than iterating existing ideas. •Demonstrated capacity to pitch and defend creative work persuasively to senior stakeholders, including pushback and negotiation on creative direction. Required Skills: •Develop original creative concepts for major campaigns, brand initiatives, and cross channel marketing moments, working from strategic and messaging directions set by Brand and Editorial & Content Strategy. •Pitch and defend creative concepts to senior marketing leadership and other stakeholders, building consensus around a strong creative direction. •Set the overall creative vision for how athenahealth shows up in market, ensuring big ideas are distinctive, on brand, and effective. •Partner with stakeholders early in the planning process so creative concepts are grounded in strategy from the start. •Push the team to develop bolder, more ambitious creative rather than defaulting to safe or expected ideas. •Lead, mentor, and grow a team of creative talent, including designers, copywriters, and other creative staff, building their range and ambition as creative thinkers. •Recruit and develop creative talent, building a team capable of generating strong concept work consistently. •Create a culture where creative risk taking is encouraged and where the team is pushed to do their best conceptual work. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Design, Fine Arts, Communications, or a related field required. Compensation: •$137,000 - $233,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!