Sr. Director, Scientific Content & Medical Communications

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead and support production of scientific content across manuscripts and journal submissions, congress abstracts and posters, congress slide presentations, booth materials and additional congress content.
• Partner with senior Medical Affairs colleagues on publication strategy execution, author coordination, journal submission logistics, and congress deliverables.
• Co-lead HEOR content, including cost-calculation tools and associated manuscripts, in close partnership with the HEOR Lead, Market Access and external health economics experts.
• Ensure market access content is grounded in published evidence and aligned with the broader scientific platform.
• Develop and maintain annotated, cross-functionally adaptable content tools including medical slide decks, mechanism of action visuals, and data summary figures.
• Develop modular disease state and cessation education content for residency training programs across internal medicine, family medicine, and psychiatry.
• Build discharge protocols and operational pathway templates for hospital medicine, acute care, perioperative and other settings around the specific clinical moments where cessation matters most.
• Produce decision support tools, state-specific scope-of-practice resources (factual and non-advocacy), and peer-to-peer content for nurse practitioner and physician associate channels.
• Ensure all content meets applicable standards for accuracy, fair balance, and regulatory compliance, with complete reference documentation.
• Serve as the internal lead for scientific content quality, accuracy, and delivery across the Medical Affairs function.
• Manage and develop direct reports within the scientific content function as the organization grows, setting clear goals and supporting professional development.
• Onboard and train team members on scientific content standards, compliance requirements, and approved content frameworks.
• Establish and maintain efficient content production workflows, vendor relationships, and quality standards across all content outputs.
• Support MLR delivery and review of promotional and non-promotional materials as required.
• Support compliance activities including training, SOP development, and modeling the standards expected of the broader team.

Qualifications And Experience

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD, or equivalent advanced degree) in a relevant life sciences discipline required.
• 8+ years in medical communications, medical affairs, or a closely related function, with demonstrated team leadership experience.
• Track record of high-volume scientific content production across diverse output types: manuscripts, congress materials, slide decks, and educational content.
• Experience in in-house medical affairs and/or agency medical communications organization settings strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with MLR processes, compliant scientific exchange, and regulatory document standards.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple content streams simultaneously in a launch environment.
• Proficiency with AI-enabled content tools and interest in applying emerging technology to scientific content production at scale.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Scientific writer capable of translating complex clinical data into clear, accurate, audience-appropriate content.
• Leads by doing - brings genuine energy and hands-on output to the work, not just oversight of it.
• Self-directed and high-output, with the discipline to sustain rigorous production standards across a high volume of parallel projects.
• Collaborative partner who works effectively with medical affairs leadership, clinical, regulatory, and commercial colleagues.
• Detail-focused with a strong command of reference and annotation standards; no tolerance for inaccuracy in scientific claims.
• Comfortable operating in a lean, fast-moving launch environment with evolving priorities.
• Techically curious, with an ability to evaluate and deploy new tools to improve content quality and efficiency.

TRAVEL

Approximately 20-30% for congresses, advisory boards, team meetings, and key external engagements.

SALARY RANGE

$230,000 - $290,000/annual