21GRAMS- Senior Technology Lead

About this role

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 Technology Lead 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 gets them. As an agency with the full capabilities of Real Chemistry at our fingertips, we’ve got endless potential.

At ROOM42 — 21GRAMS' in-house production company, content studio, and Digital & Technology services arm — we are seeking an AI-Forward Technical Lead who is simultaneously a craftsperson, a creative partner, and an accelerator. This person moves fluidly between writing production-quality code, protecting design intent through every build decision, and orchestrating AI tooling to compress the distance from concept to shipped experience. Whether the starting point is a client brief, a Figma file, or a napkin sketch, this Technical Lead is the person who figures out the fastest, most technically sound path to a working, beautiful, compliant deliverable — and builds it.

This role spans the full ROOM42 output spectrum: marketing websites, microsites, conference kiosks and panel experiences, interactive apps, and data-driven digital tools for healthcare and pharma clients. The ideal candidate has mastered the traditional web development lifecycle and is actively transforming it — using AI at every meaningful stage.

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, Lambertville, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

What you’ll do:

Build and Architect

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Own end-to-end technical execution for ROOM42 deliverables — websites, microsites, interactive apps, conference kiosk and panel experiences, and real-world evidence platforms

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Write and review production-quality code across the full stack; maintain a target of 50% direct hands-on contribution alongside leadership responsibilities

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Architect solutions that balance speed-to-market with long-term maintainability, security, and accessibility compliance

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Lead technical solutioning on new engagements — translating UX wireframes and creative briefs into clearly scoped, achievable builds

DevOps and Delivery Infrastructure:

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Own Git workflows, branching strategy, and code review standards across all active ROOM42 builds

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Maintain CI/CD pipelines for ROOM42's primary hosting environments (WP Engine, Pantheon, Acquia, Netlify/Vercel for JAMstack); make deployments repeatable and low-risk

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Manage staging, UAT, and production environment configurations; provision and document access for all ROOM42 developers

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Identify and implement automation opportunities across the DevOps lifecycle — from scaffolding new projects to post-deploy validation

AI-Augmented Design-to-Code Pipeline:

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Operate Figma MCP server integration to accelerate design handoff — extracting tokens, components, and layout specs directly into code-ready outputs; eliminating manual interpretation…