Heartbeat is a full-service agency for healthcare Challenger Brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes game—they must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a “me-too” product into “yes-please.”
The agency is known for serving up distinctive strategies and differentiating approaches, ensuring clients’ market positions are uniquely owned. Heartbeat designs their organization around a 100% integration model, housing media, strategy, med comms, creative, technology, and even point of care/population health under the same roof for the tightest, most integrated campaigns possible. They price work based on outcomes, not outputs. Their innovative model delivers not only alignment, but powerful orchestration, greater efficiency, and maximum impact for every dollar spent—all the necessary elements for Challengers to triumph.
That’s the philosophy, here’s the creds: 250+ employees between NYC & LA; 6 agency leaders with decades of tenure; a pile of awards from the likes of the Mannys, MM&M Awards, OMMAs, and Clios; an industry-leading commitment to diversity and inclusion (with a Med Ad News D&I Champion nod to match); and a President who dared to be quoted as saying, “We celebrate people who stand up and say, ‘You know what? This is dumb.' Damn straight.
Overview
We’re looking for a visionary strategist to join Heartbeat’s leadership team as SVP, Strategy. This is a high-impact role leading multidisciplinary strategic engagements, serving as a trusted advisor to senior clients, and shaping the future of both our brands and our agency.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, multi-disciplinary engagements spanning brand positioning, engagement planning, and measurement
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, building lasting relationships and delivering forward-looking counsel
- Drive organic growth within key accounts and play a leading role in new business pitches
- Collaborate across creative, media, data, and technology to embed strategy in everything we do
- Lead and mentor the strategy team, setting best practices and elevating the agency’s strategic thinking
- Represent Heartbeat externally through thought leadership and industry presence
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in strategy, planning, or consulting, ideally in healthcare
- Proven ability to lead large-scale strategy engagements and advise at the C-suite level
- A track record of driving business growth through both organic expansion and new business wins
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and team-building skills
- A curious, innovative mindset with the courage to challenge conventions
Additional information
Why Heartbeat
Here, strategy leads. You’ll work with ambitious clients, collaborate across disciplines, and help shape the future of a challenger agency backed by the scale of Publicis Health. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career—and make a real impact—we’d love to meet you.
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $84.95 - $138.83 hourly. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/17/2025.
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