Graphic Designer
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Key details
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Work style
- Onsite
- Function
- Design & Creative
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- Yesterday
Skills
About the role
About Us
At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges.
Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day.
If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.
Position Overview
The Graphic Designer is responsible for the accurate, timely, and high-quality delivery of Medical Education and Promotional Pharmaceutical materials across print and digital channels. The role will work during the second shift hours of 1 pm to 9 pm EST.
Reporting to the Studio Manager, this role partners with Creative, Project Management, Print Production, Account Services, Editorial, and other cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables align with approved creative direction, brand standards, technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and project timelines.
The role prepares and adapts layouts, creates mechanical files, performs production-level quality control, supports prepress and digital file preparation, and releases organized, production-ready files. Success requires strong attention to detail, sound production judgment, effective communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
The ideal candidate is production-focused, solutions-oriented, collaborative, and able to work accurately under pressure while contributing to consistent, efficient, and well-documented Studio workflows.
Role Requirements
Brand and Studio Knowledge
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of print and digital production, including file preparation, layout adaptation, mechanical file construction, typography, image handling, and prepress requirements.
- Maintains brand consistency across print, digital, promotional, and medical education deliverables.
- Applies approved creative direction and brand guidelines accurately across multiple formats, sizes, and deliverables.
- Demonstrates strong knowledge of typography, layout, color, image resolution, file formats, bleeds, die lines, linked assets, fonts, and output requirements.
- Demonstrates advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat.
- Maintains working knowledge of Figma and Microsoft Office applications.
- Understands the importance of accuracy, documentation, version control, and compliance within pharmaceutical and regulated communications.
- Follows approved content and escalates discrepancies or questions related to Medical-Legal-Regulatory requirements.
- Maintains current knowledge of relevant production practices, software updates, digital specifications, accessibility requirements, and industry standards.
- Maintains professionalism and builds respectful, collaborative working relationships across all teams.
- Provides production support and coverage across brands and projects as needed.
Production and Execution
- Prepares, revises, adapts, and releases production-ready files for print and digital deliverables.
- Builds and updates layouts based on approved creative direction, copy, specifications, and brand standards.
- Creates mechanical files, schematics, templates, and other production documents as required.
- Performs production-level quality control of typography, layout, copy placement, imagery, color, dimensions, links, fonts, bleeds, die lines, and technical specifications.
- Preflight files and resolves production issues before routing, release, or delivery.
- Prepares print-ready PDFs and digital assets according to project, vendor, platform, and channel specifications.
- Supports prepress activities, including file setup, color management, overprint considerations, image resolution, separations, packaging, and final file collection.
- Coordinates with Print Production to review specifications, develop or update spec sheets, and confirm production readiness.
- Confirms that files, components, copy, and specifications are complete before beginning production.
- Implements feedback accurately and documents or escalates questions when direction is unclear, incomplete, or conflicting.&l