Associate Director, Commercial Creative

Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leading a new era in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions. We deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes. Our industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States. Together, we are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish. For more information, please visit us at www.axsome.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

About This Role 

Axsome Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director, Commercial Creative to lead the development and execution of a broad range of digital and print resources that support brand objectives and field effectiveness. In efforts to expand in-house creative capability, the Associate Director, Commercial Creative will help shape new ways of working, strengthen internal creative processes, and expand the organization’s ability to deliver high-value content with greater speed, consistency, and strategic alignment.

This role requires a strong creative doer who can produce high-quality work across channels while also bringing the strategic perspective needed to translate brand priorities into impactful, compliant, and scalable creative solutions. This position reports to the Associate Vice President, Commercial and Digital Excellence.

This role is based at Axsome’s HQ in New York City with an on-site requirement of at least three days per week. We are unable to consider candidates who are looking for fully remote roles. 

Job Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Serve as a hands-on creative leader, developing high-quality, on-brand content across email, digital, social, web, print, video, and field channels.
• Translate brand strategy, business priorities, and customer needs into compelling, compliant, and field-ready creative assets.
• Own end-to-end content development as an individual contributor, from concept through final delivery, ensuring speed, quality, and consistency.
• Partner cross-functionally with marketing, sales, training, market access, and other stakeholders to identify needs, shape creative approaches, and deliver solutions that advance brand goals.
• Bring strategic input to brand planning and content prioritization by recommending creative approaches, channel strategies, and opportunities to increase impact.
• Help build and scale the in-house creative capability by improving workflows, establishing efficient processes, and reducing reliance on external partners.
• Continuously strengthen creative output through feedback, performance insights, and evolving best practices in commercial and omnichannel content development.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 7+ years of experience in commercial creative, brand support, and digital content development, ideally in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or another regulated industry.
• Proven ability to partner with brand and commercial teams to turn business priorities into creative solutions that advance strategic goals.
• Ability to work on site Monday, Tuesday & Thursday. We are unable to consider candidates who are looking for fully remote roles

Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Strong experience supporting omnichannel marketing, including developing, adapting, and scaling content across email, digital, social, web, and print.
• Experience with design-first web platforms (e.g., Webflow) that support rapid content creation, updates, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled creative tools and emerging technologies that improve productivity, speed execution, and support scalable in-house content development.
• Demonstrated success building and improving creative workflows, intake processes, and operating models that increase speed, quality, and consistency.
• Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across functions and present recommendations clearly to senior leadership.

Salary and Benefits:

The anticipated salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. The salary offer will be based on a variety of factors, including experience, qualifications, internal equity and location. Axsome offers a competitive employment package that includes an annual bonus, significant equity and a generous benefits package.

Axsome is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. 

Axsome Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or third-party recruitment agencies and will not pay placement fees for unsolicited candidates that are sent to hiring managers, the HR team or other Axsome team members. Only approved vendors who have been explicitly asked to support a specific search will receive access to our Applicant Tracking System to submit candidates for consideration.