21GRAMS- Senior Designer

About the role

Joining 21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, means joining a dynamic agency focused on transforming healthcare through innovative communications and marketing strategies. Our agency provides a comprehensive suite of services to leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies, combining bold creativity, strategic rigor, and deep scientific understanding.

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, coordinating handoffs from kickoff through deployment
• Cross-functionally coordinate with Art Direction, Design, Copy, Development, and QA teams to ensure work is 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
• Lead design execution on 2 multi-tactic initiatives per quarter, delivering 100% of core assets within timeline and scope, as confirmed by Producer and Account sign-off
• Increase first-round approval rate to ≥75% for assigned work by the end of Q3, measured through review cycles and feedback logs
• Create/updating 1 digital toolkit per quarter, achieving adoption on 3+ projects within that quarter
• Mentor and quality-check work for 1–2 Designers per month by providing actionable feedback within 24 hours of review requests, improving their on-time delivery to ≥90% by the end of Q4
• Pilot an AI-assisted workflow for repurposing creative across platforms (e.g., resizing, layout variants, copy-fit explorations) on 1 initiative per month, publishing a 1-page playbook by quarter-end showing a 15% reduction in turnaround time without increasing QA findings

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)

Qualifications

• Proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills, intellectual curiosity, and a desire to leverage data to inform decisions and drive outcomes
• Energized by innovation and the transformative potential of AI, actively exploring new technologies, identifying opportunities to work smarter, and championing practical, responsible AI adoption that drives meaningful business impact

Skills

• Strong design skills across multiple mediums (e.g., websites, interactive visual aids, videos, banners, landing pages, and emails)
• Experience with regulated review processes in healthcare/pharmaceutical settings
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proficiency with design software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch)
• Understanding of healthcare/pharmaceutical industry trends and regulatory requirements

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefits package and a variety of programs designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and success. This includes:

• Comprehensive health insurance options
• Dental and vision coverage
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Retirement savings plans
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Mental wellness support
• Access to online classes and resources

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000. Compensation is determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal parity.