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Status: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services
Department: Content Studio
Pay Range: $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 per year
Job Title: Director
Location: SBC Corporation
Department Name: Content Studio
Req #: 0000268999
Status: Salaried
Shift: Day
Pay Range: $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 per year
Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.
The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
A Typical Day
Reports to the AVP, Intake & Content Studio and serves as the creative leader responsible for the health system s visual communications strategy, artistic direction, creative standards, and multi-channel content production.Leads the centralized writing and visual communication teams and oversees writing, design, photography, videography, multimedia production, and related creative disciplines while ensuring enterprise brand consistency and creative excellence.
- Lead the overall creative vision, artistic direction, visual communications strategy, and brand expression for the Content Studio,
- Provide leadership and development to Content Studio Managers and creative professionals
- Establish enterprise creative standards, visual identity systems, and storytelling methodologies
- Serve as creative authority for campaign concepting and creative approvals
- Partner with leadership to translate organizational priorities into integrated communication campaigns
- Direct development of Enterprise creative briefs and visual narratives
- Align creative resources and priorities with approved intake requests
- Oversee quality assurance across writing, design, photography, videography, and multimedia production
- Champion innovation and emerging creative technologies and trends
- Ensure compliance with brand standards, accessibility, privacy, and governance requirements
- Oversee external creative partners and vendors
- Monitor creative performance metrics and continuous improvement initiatives
This Role Might Be For You If ..
- Expert knowledge of creative direction, visual communications, brand management, and integrated marketing campaign development across digital, print, experiential, and multimedia channels
- Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and develop multidisciplinary creative teams while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and creative excellence
- Advanced understanding of design theory, visual storytelling, typography, photography, videography, motion graphics, user experience, and content strategy principles
- Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to translate complex business, marketing, communications, and healthcare objectives into compelling creative solutions
- Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise brand governance and the ability to maintain consistency across multiple markets, service lines, facilities, and communication platforms
- Exceptional creative judgment and decision-making skills, including the ability to evaluate concepts, provide constructive direction, and elevate creative quality across all deliverables
- Strong understanding of creative production workflows, project prioritization methodologies, resource planning principles, and collaborative content development processes
- Highly effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build consavigate complex matrixed organizational structures
- Working knowledge of healthcare marketing regulations, accessibility standards, consumer engagement strategies, HIPAA considerations, and compliance requirements impacting creative deliverables
- Proficiency with creative technology platforms, digital asset management systems, creative workflow tools, and industry-standard design and production software
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage performance metrics, audience insights, and campaign results to inform creative strategy and continuous improvement efforts
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and leadership capabilities with the ability to balance innovation, quality, speed-to-market, and operational constraints in a high-volume production environment
To Be Considered
Required
- Education Required: * Bachelor s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Film Production, or related discipline
- Experience Required: Minimum 8 years progressive experience in creative direction, brand management, visual communications, agency leadership, marketing production, or corporate creative services; minimum 5 years leading creative teams
Preferred
- Additional Education Preferred: * Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Masters degree in Marketing, Communications, or Healthcare Administration (MHA)
- Additional Licensure Preferred: * Project Management Professional (PMP) or specialized creative/agile operations certifications,
- Experience Preferred: Centralized creative agency or shared-services production infrastructure within a highly matrixed corporate or healthcare enterprise
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Benefits and Perks:
At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life & Accidental Death Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Wellness Programs
- Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
- Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!
Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!
RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.
RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.
Equal Opportunity Employer
RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Category: Marketing / Public Relations
Status: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services
Department: Content Studio
Pay Range: $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 per year
Job Title: Director
Location: SBC Corporation
Department Name: Content Studio
Req #: 0000268999
Status: Salaried
Shift: Day
Pay Range: $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 per year
Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.
The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
A Typical Day
Reports to the AVP, Intake & Content Studio and serves as the creative leader responsible for the health system s visual communications strategy, artistic direction, creative standards, and multi-channel content production.Leads the centralized writing and visual communication teams and oversees writing, design, photography, videography, multimedia production, and related creative disciplines while ensuring enterprise brand consistency and creative excellence.
- Lead the overall creative vision, artistic direction, visual communications strategy, and brand expression for the Content Studio,
- Provide leadership and development to Content Studio Managers and creative professionals
- Establish enterprise creative standards, visual identity systems, and storytelling methodologies
- Serve as creative authority for campaign concepting and creative approvals
- Partner with leadership to translate organizational priorities into integrated communication campaigns
- Direct development of Enterprise creative briefs and visual narratives
- Align creative resources and priorities with approved intake requests
- Oversee quality assurance across writing, design, photography, videography, and multimedia production
- Champion innovation and emerging creative technologies and trends
- Ensure compliance with brand standards, accessibility, privacy, and governance requirements
- Oversee external creative partners and vendors
- Monitor creative performance metrics and continuous improvement initiatives
This Role Might Be For You If ..
- Expert knowledge of creative direction, visual communications, brand management, and integrated marketing campaign development across digital, print, experiential, and multimedia channels
- Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and develop multidisciplinary creative teams while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and creative excellence
- Advanced understanding of design theory, visual storytelling, typography, photography, videography, motion graphics, user experience, and content strategy principles
- Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to translate complex business, marketing, communications, and healthcare objectives into compelling creative solutions
- Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise brand governance and the ability to maintain consistency across multiple markets, service lines, facilities, and communication platforms
- Exceptional creative judgment and decision-making skills, including the ability to evaluate concepts, provide constructive direction, and elevate creative quality across all deliverables
- Strong understanding of creative production workflows, project prioritization methodologies, resource planning principles, and collaborative content development processes
- Highly effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build consavigate complex matrixed organizational structures
- Working knowledge of healthcare marketing regulations, accessibility standards, consumer engagement strategies, HIPAA considerations, and compliance requirements impacting creative deliverables
- Proficiency with creative technology platforms, digital asset management systems, creative workflow tools, and industry-standard design and production software
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage performance metrics, audience insights, and campaign results to inform creative strategy and continuous improvement efforts
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and leadership capabilities with the ability to balance innovation, quality, speed-to-market, and operational constraints in a high-volume production environment
To Be Considered
Required
- Education Required: * Bachelor s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Film Production, or related discipline
- Experience Required: Minimum 8 years progressive experience in creative direction, brand management, visual communications, agency leadership, marketing production, or corporate creative services; minimum 5 years leading creative teams
Preferred
- Additional Education Preferred: * Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Masters degree in Marketing, Communications, or Healthcare Administration (MHA)
- Additional Licensure Preferred: * Project Management Professional (PMP) or specialized creative/agile operations certifications,
- Experience Preferred: Centralized creative agency or shared-services production infrastructure within a highly matrixed corporate or healthcare enterprise
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Benefits and Perks:
At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life & Accidental Death Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Wellness Programs
- Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
- Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!
Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!
RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.
RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.
Equal Opportunity Employer
RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Who's Hiring
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in artistic director jobs.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible artistic or curatorial leadership experience
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute full-season or multi-project programming
- Experience managing creative staff, directors, designers, or curatorial teams
- Strong fundraising and donor relations experience alongside board engagement
- Bachelor's or master's degree in theater, fine arts, arts administration, or a related field
- Proficiency with budgeting, grant writing, and financial oversight for arts organizations
Tips for Your Artistic Director Job Search
Lead your resume with programming vision
Artistic directors are hired to shape an organization's creative identity, not just manage projects. Open your resume with a two-sentence artistic philosophy and name the audiences, genres, or movements your programming has served. Generic production credits buried in bullet points won't get you an interview.
Build a portfolio around institutional impact
Hiring committees want to see season plans, curatorial frameworks, and audience growth alongside production photos. Include budget scales you've managed and community partnerships you've built. A portfolio that only shows finished work misses what distinguishes an artistic director from a director or designer.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists artistic director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target organizations by mission alignment
Boards and executive directors hire artistic leaders who already speak their organization's language. Read each company's recent season, annual report, and public statements before applying, then mirror that language in your cover letter. Generic applications to organizations with strong missions are easy to spot and easy to reject.
Prepare a sample season proposal
Many artistic director searches include a finalist presentation where you pitch a hypothetical season or curatorial direction. Develop a draft proposal tailored to the organization's budget range and audience demographics before your first interview so you're not building it under pressure.
Negotiate start date and transition support
Artistic director offers often include a transition period where you overlap with an outgoing leader or interim. Clarify in negotiations whether that overlap is paid, what your programming authority is during it, and when your first full season begins. These terms affect your ability to deliver quickly.
Artistic Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most artistic directors?
Ballet West, Alamo City Arts, and Brown University are hiring the most artistic directors right now, with openings concentrated in Georgia, Texas, and Utah, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at regional theater companies, contemporary art museums, dance organizations, and mid-size advertising and brand agencies.
How many artistic director jobs are remote?
About 33% of artistic director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote work most common in brand identity, advertising creative direction, and digital media roles rather than performing arts or museum positions, where on-site presence is typically required for rehearsals, installations, and community engagement.
How do you become an artistic director?
Most artistic directors build toward the role by directing or curating independently, then taking associate or assistant artistic director positions at established organizations. You develop a recognizable artistic voice, build relationships with playwrights, choreographers, or visual artists, and demonstrate you can run a season, manage a team, and engage a board. A graduate degree in your discipline or in arts administration strengthens your candidacy for larger institutions.
Can you get hired as an artistic director with little experience?
Entry points exist at smaller companies, emerging arts collectives, and community organizations where budgets are limited and boards prioritize energy and vision over lengthy resumes. Starting as an associate artistic director or programming manager at a mid-size organization is a practical path. Focus your applications on companies whose mission closely matches work you've already produced independently, since concrete examples of your curatorial instincts matter more than years of tenure at this stage.
What does the artistic director interview process look like?
Most searches involve an initial screening call with an executive director or search committee, followed by a deeper interview with board members and senior staff. Finalist candidates are typically invited for a site visit that includes a public or staff presentation, often a sample season pitch or curatorial vision statement. References from past collaborators, board members, and community partners are checked before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to artistic director jobs?
You can find and apply to artistic director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings, find roles that match your background and artistic focus, and apply directly to each one that fits.
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