The Role

We are looking for a Senior Director who does one thing better than almost anyone: takes dense, technical, high-stakes material and turns it into visuals that a judge, a juror, a board, or a regulator can follow and believe. This is a senior craft and leadership role at the center of the practice, with a particular mandate in healthcare and life sciences, where Ankura's medical device, pharmaceutical, hospital, and health policy work produces exactly the kind of clinical, scientific, and regulatory content that needs a designer who has lived inside it.

You will lead information design and graphics across Trial Studio and Creative Comms: demonstratives and trial presentations, scientific and mechanism illustration, infographics, presentation systems, proposal and pursuit templates, and brand governance for the practice's output. You will build and manage the template and asset systems that let a national practice deliver consistent, courtroom-grade work from any city, and you will mentor a growing bench of designers as the practice scales. New York places you in the first wave of our regional expansion and close to the Am Law 100 firms and corporate legal departments that drive our trial pipeline.

What You Will Do

• Design and direct courtroom demonstratives, trial presentations, and hearing graphics that translate clinical data, scientific mechanisms, financial analysis, and technical evidence into clear, persuasive visuals in partnership with counsel and testifying experts.

• Lead information design for healthcare and life sciences matters: mechanism-of-action diagrams, study designs, regulatory pathways, device and procedure illustration, and data visualization built to withstand cross-examination.

• Own the practice's presentation systems, proposal and RFP templates, and brand standards, ensuring that work produced across regional pods and the core studio meets a single quality bar.

• Design executive, board, and investor presentations, infographics, and digital and print collateral for Creative Comms engagements and for Ankura practices that engage VCC on their client work.

• Manage design production on multiple concurrent matters: scoping, scheduling, vendor and freelance coordination, budget tracking, and quality control against tight trial and hearing deadlines.