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Job Summary:
Real Chemistry is looking for an Associate Creative Director, Art join our growing team!
21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, is a full-service healthcare advertising agency built on the belief that healthcare should feel more human. We combine bold creativity, strategic rigor, and deep scientific understanding to create work that changes behavior, improves outcomes, and makes a meaningful impact on people's lives. Our culture is grounded in collaboration, curiosity, and a shared commitment to doing exceptional work. We believe in being good to each other while pushing ourselves to deliver ideas that move audiences, brands, and healthcare forward.
The Associate Creative Director, Art is responsible for leading the creative engagements across multiple healthcare client accounts. With promotional HCP experience in therapeutic categories, oncology, cardiology, rare disease etc. You must be the digital translator of the brand’s strategy and creative platform and bring to life how it will support the full consumer and HCP journey. You will be leading a team to unpack how to leverage existing and emerging technologies and ways of engaging audiences anywhere at any time.
You will be working closely with our engagement strategy teams to leverage the insights driving healthcare professionals and consumers and develop experiences that transform our clients’ brands. Partnering with account and project management to ensure that our clients are surprised and delighted with the quality of our creative work across all digital channels.
This role can be remote within the United States or based in any of our U.S. office locations, including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Lambertville, NJ, San Francisco, or Carmel, IN.
This position requires the ACD, Art to have prior health care experience.
What you’ll do:
- Can structure a complete narrative and be able to write in different voices to suit client and audience
- Work with ACD, Copy to produce standout and strategically focused campaigns and experiences
- Identify and interview prospective creative candidates
- Manage teams, creative output and client relationships
- Concepts, campaign execution that are in line with client strategy
- Oversee day to day deliverables for team under tight deadlines while delivering best in class work to market.
- Mentor teams both internally and externally
- Manage awards submissions and case studies for brand
- Participate in high level projects and new business pitches.
This position is a perfect fit for you if:
- Our Company values, Best Together, Impact Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always, and Accountability with an "I", genuinely resonate with how you work and lead.
- You demonstrate the Real Chemistry Can mindset by approaching challenges with optimism, accountability, creativity, and a solutions-oriented attitude, always looking for ways to make a meaningful impact for our clients, colleagues, and communities.
- You are adaptable, resilient, and comfortable adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment. As our business grows and changes, so do we.
- You are proactive, driven, and resourceful, with strong prioritization skills, intellectual curiosity, and a desire to leverage data to inform decisions and drive outcomes.
- You are 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.
What you should have:
- Healthcare marketing writing experience for consumer/patient and HCP audiences
- 5-7+ years of health care/pharma experience in an agency environment
- BA degree (Advertising, Communications, Fine Arts, or related field preferred)
- A comprehensive creative portfolio, demonstrating strong conceptual capabilities and ability to produce work in high-science pharma categories.
Pay Range: $160,000-$190,000
The anticipated salary range for this position is listed above. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal parity.
In addition to base salary, Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefits package and a variety of programs designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and success.
Real Chemistry reserves the right to update compensation and benefits programs at any time.
Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on .
We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.
Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is a critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach. Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people.
Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.
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