Senior Production Artist - Homebased - Mexico
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
The Senior Production Artist is a highly skilled production and layout specialist responsible for developing, formatting, and delivering complex scientific communications materials, with a primary focus on high-volume scientific poster production for medical congresses. This role serves as a subject matter expert in scientific poster production and production workflows, ensuring the highest standards of quality, accuracy, consistency, and compliance across all deliverables. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the Senior Production Artist provides technical expertise, production guidance, and innovative solutions while supporting studio-wide production initiatives, print-ready file packaging, and process improvements in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Lead the production, formatting, and layout of scientific posters, clinical trial deliverables, and other scientific communications materials utilizing expert-level Adobe InDesign skills.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Prepare, review, and package final production files for print and digital distribution, including preflight checks and release activities.
- Conduct comprehensive quality control reviews to ensure compliance with client, regulatory, editorial, and congress-specific requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to provide technical expertise, production guidance, and solutions to complex formatting challenges.
- Serve as a production subject matter expert while driving process improvements through the development and maintenance of InDesign templates, libraries, style sheets, workflows, quality standards, and production best practices.
Your Profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 6+ years of experience as a Production Artist, Senior Production Artist, or in a related production-focused role with experience within pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical communications, scientific publishing, or agency environments preferred.
- Demonstrated experience producing high-volume scientific posters, figure redraws, and other scientific communications deliverables in a deadline-driven environment.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe InDesign and advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat) including complex document formatting, style sheets, templates, and production workflows.
- Advanced knowledge of print production, file preparation, quality assurance processes, and release packaging activities.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Portfolio demonstrating expertise in scientific poster production, complex document formatting, and publication-ready deliverables; flexibility to support occasional evening and weekend work during peak congress periods.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify and resolve production, formatting, and quality issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and client groups.
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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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