Director, Graphic Design

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. is seeking a Director, Graphic Design to lead digital-first creative and enterprise visual communications that support brand modernization in a highly regulated environment. This hybrid role in Warren, NJ helps evolve and operationalize PTC’s corporate visual identity system, partnering across teams to deliver compliant, consistent, high-impact work across social, web, video, and executive communications.

What you’ll do

• Evolve and operationalize the corporate visual identity system, including look and feel, typography, color, and imagery and illustration, translating it into practical guidance for internal and external partners.
• Build and maintain modular, scalable toolkits such as templates, design components, digital guidelines, and accessibility guidance to improve efficiency while protecting brand consistency.
• Set quality standards and establish review processes for corporate-facing creative across digital, social, web, video, events, and internal communications.
• Advance the digital ecosystem by making social and web cohesive and driving innovation.
• Lead social-first creative strategy across channels (organic and paid), ensuring content is audience-informed, on-brand, and optimized for how platforms work.
• Design and/or art-direct social content spanning evergreen, daily brand storytelling, and major moments or campaigns, balancing concept and strong execution.
• Partner with department leads on content planning, creative briefs, testing and learning, and performance-informed optimization.
• Guide creative direction for short-form video, motion graphics, and animated explainers while maintaining alignment with the corporate identity.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver polished assets efficiently, including storyboards, creative direction, and review cycles.
• Elevate enterprise presentations through information design, narrative structure, and on-brand visuals.
• Define and enforce presentation standards and templates, coaching internal stakeholders on visual communication.
• Coach and educate departments, employees, external vendors, and agencies on PTC’s corporate brand and how to work with it.
• Serve as a creative liaison to Product Marketing to align corporate brand expression with brand and product campaign needs.
• Ensure consistency across regions and markets while enabling smart localization, building frameworks that support “aligned, not identical” execution.
• Act as a strategic partner on unmet-need and disease awareness initiatives, helping teams translate strategy into cohesive cross-channel creative.
• Proactively identify overlap, duplication, and brand risks, recommending consolidation and governance where needed.
• Collaborate with Corporate Communication, Patient Advocacy, Medical/Legal/Regulatory (MLR), Digital, and Commercial teams to deliver compliant and effective creative.
• Manage external agencies and freelancers as needed, including briefing, creative direction, reviews, timelines, and budget awareness.
• Build streamlined creative workflows such as brief intake, prioritization, review routing, versioning, and asset libraries to increase throughput and clarity.
• Ensure adherence to relevant regulatory requirements and applicable company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in design, Visual Communications, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant design experience within biotech/pharma, including social and digital design in a regulated or complex environment.
• Proficiency with modern design tools including Adobe CC (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects), Canva, Figma, and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
• Strong judgment in regulated communications, comfort influencing without authority, and ability to translate business goals into strategic, execution-ready design solutions.
• Proven ability to lead brand systems and apply them consistently across digital, social, video, and presentations.
• Comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and translating strategy into creative output.
• Working knowledge of regulated review environments and stakeholder management, including MLR processes.
• Strong interest in turning complex concepts into impactful visuals.
• Strong digital design skills (typography, layout, art direction, and accessibility-minded design) paired with the ability to guide concept development and creative quality.
• Attention to detail and a desire to continuously improve quality.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while managing multiple tasks through completion.
• Ability to create, produce, edit, and annotate design projects and multimedia files according to specifications.
• Capability to receive feedback and apply it toward continuous improvements in quality, innovation, and service excellence.
• Ability to take initiative, understand tasks quickly, and work with minimal supervision.
• Comfort working with demanding stakeholders under stressful conditions while maintaining a positive presence in meetings and work sessions.

Tools you’ll use

• Adobe CC (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Canva
• Figma
• Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

Location and schedule

• Location: Warren, NJ (hybrid)
• Travel: 10-20% (domestic and/or international)

Compensation and benefits

• Expected base salary range: $198,000 - $232,000 per year
• The base salary offered will depend on assessment of candidate education level, background, and experience relative to the position requirements, as well as internal equity review.
• Benefits: short- and long-term incentives
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, and retirement savings plans