Director, Brand Design

At R1, we’re transforming how healthcare works by combining nearly two decades of revenue cycle expertise with advanced technology, including analytics, AI, intelligent automation and workflow orchestration. We pair that technology with the irreplaceable expertise of our people to help hospitals, health systems and medical groups improve financial performance, simplify administrative complexity and create better experiences for patients and providers.
All Together Better defines our culture and the way we work. We’re a diverse, global team united by a shared mission to make healthcare work better for all. Across technology, operations and support functions, our people bring deep expertise, empathy and ingenuity to the work we do. Here, collaboration fuels progress, adaptability sparks innovation and every voice can help shape what’s next for R1 and the future of healthcare.
Reporting directly to and working in close partnership with the Executive Creative Director, the Director of Brand Design will lead the visual craft and hands-on execution of R1’s most important creative work across brand identity, campaigns, executive presentations, digital experiences, events, and product storytelling.
This is a senior creative leadership role for someone with exceptional visual taste, strong conceptual thinking, and the technical ability to take a bold idea all the way to a beautifully resolved final execution.
The Director of Brand Design sits as a peer to the Director of Brand Experience. Together, these roles help shape a cohesive brand: one focused on how R1 is experienced, the other on the quality and distinctiveness of how it is expressed visually. This role leads through craft today and will grow into formal team management as the organization evolves.
What you’ll lead ~ Brand design and art direction
Personally concept, design, and produce exceptional creative work for high-visibility campaigns, launches, brand initiatives, and executive communications.
Bring a refined eye for typography, composition, imagery, hierarchy, and visual storytelling to every deliverable.
Push each assignment beyond competent execution toward distinctive, contemporary, and memorable creative expression.
Hands-on creative execution and production:
Own projects from early exploration through final production, maintaining the same level of care at every stage.
Build sophisticated design systems and production-ready assets across print, digital, presentations, environmental graphics, and emerging media.
Balance craft, speed, technical precision, and practical constraints without compromising the quality of the work.
Team leadership and creative mentorship:
Lead by example through exceptional design work, strong creative judgment, and a generous, collaborative approach.
Mentor designers through clear critique, hands-on guidance, and a high standard for concept, typography, storytelling, and execution.
Help establish the practices and expectations that support a high-performing design team, with direct people leadership as a future responsibility.
Integrated campaigns and demand generation partnership:
Translate campaign platforms into distinctive visual systems that work across paid, owned, earned, sales, and event channels.
Partner with brand strategy, demand generation, content, and product marketing to connect strong creative ideas with real business objectives.
Ensure assets feel connected as part of a larger campaign while respecting the needs of individual channels.
Executive presentation and visual storytelling:
Design high-stakes CEO keynotes, board narratives, investor materials, customer presentations, and industry-stage communications.
Make complex ideas easy to follow through editorial discipline, visual hierarchy, pacing, and clear composition.
Take presentation design beyond template execution into considered, compelling storytelling.
Brand systems, standards, and visual evolution:
Work with the Executive Creative Director to evolve R1’s visual identity and design language as the business transforms.
Develop and refine practical design standards, templates, and asset systems that make high-quality execution repeatable.
Protect brand consistency while creating room for unexpected, ambitious, and relevant creative expression.
Digital, motion, and emerging creative tools
Shape how the brand translates into web, digital, motion, and technology-enabled storytelling alongside specialist partners.
Use modern production tools and AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully to extend creative possibility and improve output.
Creative collaboration and production partners:
Work as a creative peer to the Director of Brand Experience, complementing experience leadership with deep visual design expertise.
Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies, photographers, motion designers, and production specialists to bring creative concepts to life.
Give clear, actionable feedback and maintain a rigorous quality standard through review, refinement, and delivery.
What you bring:
10+ years of experience across brand design, visual identity, art direction, integrated campaigns, or closely related creative disciplines.
An exceptional portfolio of personally executed work demonstrating premium visual aesthetics, conceptual range, and unusually high attention to detail.
A sophisticated understanding of typography, composition, imagery, layout, design systems, and the decisions that make visual work feel intentional.
Ability to develop an original creative concept and independently carry it through detailed, production-ready execution.
Advanced fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and professional design and production workflows.
Strong command of PowerPoint and/or Keynote, with a portfolio that shows high-end executive presentation work.
Working knowledge of motion, digital experiences, and emerging creative technologies, including AI-assisted tools.
Experience mentoring designers, presenting work, and giving clear, constructive feedback that meaningfully raises the quality of the output.
Confidence working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, with the ability to explain and defend thoughtful creative decisions.
Comfort working in complex B2B, enterprise, healthcare, technology, or similarly demanding environments without making the creative feel complicated.
Success looks like:
R1’s creative output is consistently more distinctive, more refined, and immediately recognizable across major brand touchpoints.
High-priority campaigns, presentations, and brand

Skills
Figma