21GRAMS- Senior Designer

Real Chemistry•Chicago, MA

44d•Remote

About The Position

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities. Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem. Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Designer to join our growing team! 21GRAMS, Real Chemistry’s advertising agency, has done a lot in its first 5+ years. Known for our creativity, we've just been ranked as the #2 creative health agency in the world by Cannes Lions. It takes a team to do ambitious things, and our ambition is to help people connect with healthcare – by making advertising less of an interruption and more worth people’s time because it actually gets them. As an agency with the full capabilities of Real Chemistry at our fingertips, we’ve got endless potential. At 21GRAMS, we’re proud to introduce our agile content studio, delivering bold storytelling and streamlined creative execution with quality and speed. We’re looking for a sharp, skilled and efficient Senior Designer to join ROOM42's Content Studio. You’ll serve as a key creative partner, applying your design expertise across healthcare/pharma (both HCP and consumer) and beyond. Reporting to the VP, Creative Lead of Content Studio, you’ll be responsible for shaping and refining art across a wide range of deliverables - bringing conceptual clarity, brand voice alignment, and category fluency to everything you touch. This is a remote-first role open to candidates based anywhere in the United States. For candidates located near a Real Chemistry office (such as New York), there may be an expectation of 1–2 days per week in-office, depending on team and business needs.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience designing in an agency or in-house creative team
Bachelor’s degree in Design, Visual Communication, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Healthcare/pharmaceutical experience is a plus, especially across digital deliverables and regulated review processes
Actively experimenting with AI tools in day-to-day work (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Copilot, Figma Make) and eager to adopt AI-assisted automation practices that elevate craft and efficiency
A comprehensive creative portfolio, demonstrating strong conceptual capabilities and ability to produce work in high-science pharma categories.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day production leadership for assigned accounts, translating the brief into clear scopes, timelines, and next steps across internal teams and external partners
Partner with Creative and Account leads to align deliverables, assumptions, and resourcing; flag risks and trade-offs early and propose practical solutions
Build and manage production schedules for multi-channel digital tactics (e.g., websites, interactive visual aids, videos, banners, landing pages, and emails), coordinating handoffs from kickoff through deployment
Coordinate cross-functional teams (Art Direction, Design, Copy, Development, and QA) to keep work on brief, on timeline, and ready for regulated review and launch
Manage estimates, budgets, and vendor/partner engagement as needed, maintaining clear documentation, approvals, and change control
Oversee trafficking and version management, ensuring accurate specs, files, and final deliveries across platforms and stakeholders
Run status updates and working sessions, communicating progress, decisions, and dependencies to internal partners and maintaining momentum across concurrent projects
Support internal and client-facing presentations by confidently walking through plans, timelines, and rationale, connecting recommendations back to the communication objectives
Contribute to ongoing process improvement (templates, workflows, and best practices) to improve speed, quality, and team efficiency across the Content Studio