Senior Director, Medical Affairs

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Medical Affairs is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving the development and execution of medical affairs plans at Atsena Therapeutics. This individual will shape the medical affairs strategy including: leading scientific communications, publication strategy, and medical education efforts, while serving as a cross-functional partner across Clinical Development, Commercial, Field Medical, and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive development, implementation, and dissemination of the global medical plan.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across alliances and external partnerships.
• Develop and manage the Scientific Communications budget.
• Strategize, develop, and drive publication strategy including manuscripts, congress posters, and presentations.
• Lead all medical meeting planning, including: strategy, activities, key intelligence topics and execution.
• Lead project management of competitive intelligence efforts and disseminate insights to internal partners.
• Lead collaborative work with the Field Medical team on resource development from conception to approval.
• Conduct tailored product trainings that meet the needs of diverse audiences across the organization.
• Ensure scientific accuracy by supporting project leads including medical review of materials.
• Lead integration of the medical education program including grants strategy, areas of interest, and CME/IME compliance within the broader scientific communications strategy.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage, screen, and identify vendors to support medical affairs initiatives.
• Oversee medical affairs operations including sponsorships and contracts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced scientific degree required: PhD, PharmD, or MD in a relevant discipline.
• Significant experience in Medical Affairs within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry; experience in ophthalmology, rare disease, and/or gene therapy required.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading a drug launch in a Medical Affairs capacity.
• 10+ years of progressive Medical Affairs experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility, leadership growth, and impact across roles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and execute scientific communications, publications, and medical affairs strategies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, and external partners.
• Experience in budget management and vendor oversight.
• Able to travel domestically and internationally approximately 50% of the time.