Manager, Interactive Design

Job Description Summary

Novartis is seeking a Manager, Interactive Design to help elevate the quality, creativity, and consistency of interactive experiences across our internal and external platforms. This role goes beyond traditional UI or web design, focusing on a broad range of interactive design disciplines - from immersive storytelling and motion to emerging areas such as AR, 3D, and dynamic content experiences.
The ideal candidate brings a strong creative mindset and the ability to design engaging, compliant interactive solutions across multiple formats. While a solid understanding of web fundamentals is important, this role is not limited to UX/UI execution and instead requires a well-rounded designer comfortable working across different interactive tools, platforms, and technologies.

 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with brand leads, designers, and writers to ideate and deliver innovative, compliant interactive solutions that balance stakeholder needs and audience engagement.
• Design and develop a variety of interactive outputs including immersive experiences, interactive storytelling, motion-driven content, and responsive layouts.
• Create engaging content using tools such as Figma, Ceros, and other interactive or motion platforms to bring concepts to life beyond static formats.
• Contribute to and evolve creative approaches within established brand frameworks and design systems, while proactively identifying opportunities for innovation.
• Work across formats including interactive features, animations, modular content, and emerging channels such as AR or 3D visualisation where relevant.
• Apply core design principles- layout, hierarchy, motion, and interaction to create intuitive, visually strong experiences across different devices and platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers and strategists to ensure feasible, scalable, and high-quality execution of interactive concepts.
• Build and adapt reusable components and design assets to support scalable, flexible content creation.
• Produce and optimise visual assets, animations, and interactive elements to support campaigns and digital initiatives.
• Review outputs for quality, consistency, and alignment with creative direction and brand standards.
• Contribute to team capability building by sharing best practices, tools, and emerging trends in interactive design.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in digital or interactive design roles, ideally within healthcare, pharmaceutical, or agency environments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a range of interactive work (e.g. immersive content, motion, 3D, AR, interactive storytelling), not limited to web UI.
• Proficiency in tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with experience in interactive platforms such as Ceros or similar.
• Working knowledge of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, responsive design) to support collaboration with development teams.
• Interactive script is highly desirable.
• Experience with motion design, animation tools, or emerging interactive technologies is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of layout, typography, interaction, and visual storytelling across multiple formats.
• Awareness of accessibility and usability principles, applied pragmatically across interactive outputs.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within global, cross-functional teams.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to quality, detail, and consistency.
• A proactive, curious mindset with a passion for creativity, innovation, and evolving interactive experiences.
• Demonstrates Novartis values: Innovation, Collaboration, Courage, Integrity, and Quality.

Additional Mandatory Requirement

Please include a portfolio link to Behance or personal portfolio. Google Drive links cannot be accepted. Your portfolio should clearly demonstrate a breadth of interactive design work aligned with the scope of this role.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

 

Skills Desired

Agility, Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Business Analytics, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Media Campaigns, Project Management, Project Planning, Sales, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Marketing, Waterfall Model

Global pharmaceutical company focused on innovative medicines in oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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