21GRAMS- Head of Content Studio

twentysix; New York; On-site; GBP 177,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free snacks

Generous holiday

Private medical

Dental & vision

LinkedIn Learning

Mental wellness coaching

Job summary

Real Chemistry, a global healthcare communications partner, seeks a Head of Creative Studio to lead and scale an AI-enabled, modular content workflow for healthcare advertising. You will oversee designers, copywriters, and a Creative Director, driving quality, consistency, and compliant rapid delivery across client programs.

You will partner with 21GRAMS, ROOM42, and cross-functional teams to shape the studio’s operating model, templates, and governance while advancing computational design and

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading creative teams within healthcare or related agencies.
• Proven ability to translate AI and DCO opportunities into repeatable creative processes.
• Experience implementing AI, automation, and DCO in regulated healthcare work.
• Ability to turn emerging tools into repeatable creative workflows, templates, and guardrails.
• Experience collaborating with multiple functions (media, data, technology) on complex projects.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stake holder management in fast-moving studios.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop Real Chemistry's in-house creative studio team.
• Own the implementation of AI, automation, and DCO-enabled workflows across creative delivery.
• Define standards, templates, QA steps, and governance for high-quality healthcare work.
• Optimize the studio operating model, roles, and handoffs with delivery leads.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, compliant, and effective creative output.
• Act as senior creative partner to internal networks and external clients to drive faster, better work.

Skills

Creative leadership

AI in creative workflows

DCO / dynamic content

Healthcare advertising

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Job description

Head of Creative Studio & AI-Enabled Content Systems

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.

Position Overview

ROOM42, Real Chemistry’s in-house production company, is seeking a Head of Content Studio to lead and develop the creative team while building a more modern, AI-, automation-, and DCO-enabled creative delivery process for healthcare advertising clients. This is a senior creative leadership role focused on creative quality, team structure, scalable ways of working, and practical innovation in how creative work is made, adapted, versioned, reviewed, optimized, and improved. The role partners closely with 21GRAMS and the broader Real Chemistry network across embedded agency delivery, direct-to-client assignments, and collaboration with media or other cross-functional teams. You will manage designers, copywriters, and a Creative Director responsible for day-to-day creative direction, while partnering with delivery management leads who own project plans, resourcing, budgets, timelines, and final delivery execution. You will help the studio move from manual, fragmented creative production toward a clearer, smarter, more system-enabled model that supports modular creative, dynamic content, audience- and channel-specific versioning, and DCO technology without compromising craft, accuracy, or healthcare compliance. You are dedicated to living our mantra: ‘Be hard on the work, but be good to each other’.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and develop the studio’s creative team, including designers, copywriters, and a Creative Director responsible for day-to-day creative direction and quality.

AI-, Automation-, and DCO-Enabled Creative Process: Own the implementation and adoption of AI-, automation-, and DCO-enabled creative workflows, moving the studio from ad hoc experimentation to repeatable processes for briefing, concepting, modular asset creation, adaptation, versioning, dynamic content assembly, review, optimization, and quality control. Define the creative use cases, guardrails, templates, prompt libraries, QA steps, playbooks, examples, training, and review rituals needed to make AI and DCO technology useful in regulated healthcare work while helping designers, copywriters, and Creative Directors improve speed, consistency, reuse, personalization readiness, and quality without reducing creative judgment, accountability, craft, accuracy, compliance, or brand integrity.

Creative Quality and Craft Standards: Establish clear creative standards, review practices, templates, prompts, and quality controls that help the team produce stronger work with greater consistency, speed, and precision.

Studio Operating Model: Work with ops lead to optimize the creative operating model for the content studio, defining roles, rituals, intake expectations, review points, creative decision-making, and the handoffs between creative teams and delivery management leads.

Healthcare Advertising Expertise: Ensure the studio’s creative process supports regulated healthcare work, including precision, consistency, claim sensitivity, review readiness, and the ability to adapt creative across brands, audiences, and channels.

Senior Creative Partnership: Serve as a senior creative partner to 21GRAMS, ROOM42, and client stakeholders, helping teams understand what the creative studio can make, how the AI-enabled process works, and how to get to better work faster.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with delivery management, production, media, technology, account, strategy, medical, and operations teams to make sure creative workflows are connected, scalable, measurable, and practical across different engagement models, including DCO-enabled workstreams that require close coordination between creative, media, data, and platform partners.

Tooling, Templates, and Workflow Adoption: Translate AI, automation, and DCO opportunities into usable studio practices, including repeatable templates, modular content frameworks, prompt libraries, creative QA steps, content adaptation models, dynamic creative requirements, team training, and governance routines that support regulated healthcare work.

Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring creative workflow issues and improve the systems, behaviors, and enablement materials that help the team deliver better work with less friction.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading creative teams within a healthcare advertising agency, creative agency, production studio, content studio, or related environment.

• Strong creative leadership skills, including team management, creative quality oversight, feedback, talent development, and the ability to raise the standard of work across designers and copywriters.

• Practical experience implementing AI, automation, and DCO technology in creative workflows, including briefing, concepting, modular asset creation, versioning, adaptation, dynamic content assembly, review, creative reuse, quality control, and reduction of repetitive manual work.

• Ability to turn emerging tools into repeatable creative processes, including templates, prompts, review steps, QA practices, guardrails, training materials, adoption plans, and human oversight expectations.

• Strong healthcare advertising experience, including regulated categories, claim sensitivity, client review expectations, agency creative models, data protection considerations, and the accuracy, consistency, and compliance required to deliver work in this space.

• Experience with DCO and dynamic content workflows, including modular asset systems, feed- or data-informed creative logic, versioning, adaptation, audience- or channel-specific creative delivery, platform requirements, testing inputs, optimization signals, and collaboration with media, technology, and AI/automation partners.

• Confident senior presence with the ability to explain creative systems, shape expectations, influence stakeholders, and build trust with agency and client teams.

• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to work effectively across Real Chemistry, 21GRAMS, ROOM42, media, client teams, and cross-functional partners.

• Bias toward clear creative process, practical experimentation, strong communication, and high-quality execution in fast-moving content studio environments.

Pay Range: $240,000 - 290,000

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 job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range 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 our Great Places to Work Profile here.

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.

At Real Chemistry, we believe we're at our best when we're connected. Our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach is designed to foster collaboration, learning, innovation, and meaningful relationships while providing flexibility where appropriate. Because our workforce spans multiple countries, regions, and client needs, work arrangements may vary by role and location. Some positions offer hybrid or remote flexibility, while others require regular in-office presence. For example, certain teams and regions, including some of our UK operations, have office-based requirements. Your recruiter will discuss the specific expectations for the role you're pursuing during the interview process and keep you informed throughout the hiring journey. For employees located within a one-hour commute of a Real Chemistry office, we require in-person attendance two days per week, either from a Real Chemistry office or when working onsite with clients. Employees in regions without a nearby office may work remotely and come together throughout the year for collaboration, culture-building, learning, and team connection opportunities. While these guidelines reflect our current workplace model, we understand that everyone’s circumstances are unique. If you require additional flexibility, we welcome an open conversation with your recruiter and our HR team to discuss your needs and determine what may be possible.

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.