Senior Director – Creative & Production, Global Communications

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Senior Director, Creative & Production sets the creative vision within Global Communications for how Lilly's news, stories, and brand come to life across our owned channels and content — leading an in-house team specializing in video, design, and multimedia, and partnering with the masterbrand team to carry Lilly's visual identity in everything we do.

The mandate is engaging creative that’s unmistakably Lilly: human, caring, and centered on the people we serve. It's a rare opportunity to turn a global company's purpose — making life better — into stories and content the world wants to watch, read, and share.

Reporting to the AVP, Global Communications Strategy, Innovation and Operations, this leader operates with the pace of a newsroom and the craft of a best-in-class creative studio — building and leading a team that moves at the speed of the conversation, concepting, producing, and shipping high-quality work against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge. A player-coach who sets the creative bar and lifts everyone to it, this leader brings together in-house talent and strategic agency partnerships to scale — and builds a team where top talent and creative risk-taking can thrive.

• Set the creative vision and direction for Global Communications — partnering with the masterbrand team to carry Lilly’s visual identity into everything we make and evolve how the brand shows up in storytelling.
• Concept and produce social-first, channel-native content in close partnership with the Senior Director, Digital & Social Media — bringing the editorial vision and calendar to life across Linked In, Instagram, X, Facebook, You Tube, and
• Build and lead an in-house creative studio across video, design, and multimedia that produces against the editorial calendar and in real time as moments emerge — at newsroom pace, without compromising craft.
• Attract, develop, and retain top creative talent, building a high-standards culture with the clear expectations and psychological safety for people to take real creative risks.
• Champion storytelling excellence across Global Communications — finding the human truth in complex science and strategy and shaping it into clear, emotionally compelling narratives that connect Lilly's work to the people it's for.
• Push creative boundaries with new technology — integrating automation, generative and agentic AI, and intelligent workflows that increase speed, precision, and consistency.
• Own how creative moves through the pipeline — the project tracking, milestone management, and operating rhythms that keep work efficient, on time, and visible to leadership.
• Scale production beyond the in-house team — building and stewarding a network of agencies and freelance creatives, and partnering closely with Thread Collective, Lilly’s in-house agency, on execution, shared resources, and budget.
• Activate Lilly’s history as a strategic storytelling asset, leading the historians and archivists who preserve it and bring it into narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.
• Partner across Global Communications — with Enterprise and Executive Communications, Workforce Engagement, and therapeutic area and business unit teams — to translate strategy into campaign, launch, and leadership creative.
• Own rights, licensing, and consent across produced content — music, talent, stock, and patient and caregiver imagery — ensuring everything is properly cleared before it ships.

• Bachelor's degree in marketing,…