VP, Scientific Communications & Marketing

About the role

The Vice President of Scientific Communications & Commercial Marketing will lead the communications, positioning, marketing, and external engagement strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization. This executive leader will elevate City of Hope’s reputation as a preferred partner for industry, investors, entrepreneurs, foundations, and innovation collaborators while showcasing the institution’s scientific achievements, commercialization opportunities, and growing innovation ecosystem.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Develop and execute the communications and marketing strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging across all external audiences.
• Translate complex scientific, clinical, and translational innovations into clear, partner-ready narratives for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, investor, entrepreneurial, and foundation stakeholders.
• Lead the strategy, development, launch, and maintenance of City of Hope’s innovation and commercialization website, highlighting partnership opportunities, licensing assets, accelerator programs, and scientific capabilities.
• Create and oversee high-impact marketing materials including executive presentations, pitch decks, one-pagers, scientific content, digital campaigns, newsletters, and business development collateral.
• Drive communications and marketing initiatives for Hope Catalyst, promoting programs, success stories, innovation opportunities, and engagement with investors, mentors, entrepreneurs, and industry partners.
• Partner with Business Development and Licensing teams to develop partnering packages, investor materials, conference assets, non-confidential summaries, and industry outreach campaigns that support transaction generation.
• Support thought leadership, scientific events, innovation forums, investor showcases, and industry conferences through strategic messaging, speaker preparation, promotional campaigns, and post-event communications.
• Build and strengthen the commercialization organization’s brand by positioning City of Hope as a scientifically exceptional, commercially sophisticated, and highly collaborative innovation partner.
• Develop compelling content strategies that highlight breakthrough discoveries, commercialization successes, licensing opportunities, startup creation, strategic partnerships, and patient-impact stories.
• Collaborate across Communications, Legal, Compliance, Government Affairs, Philanthropy, Business Development, Licensing, Intellectual Property, and scientific leadership teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and institutional consistency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Communications, Marketing, Business, Healthcare, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree in Science, Medicine, Business, Communications, or Public Health preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in scientific communications, life sciences marketing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical communications, healthcare innovation, commercialization, business development support, or strategic communications.
• Proven success developing scientific, technical, and commercial communications for life sciences, healthcare, biotech, pharmaceutical, or academic medical center audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific and clinical concepts into compelling and market-ready messaging.
• Experience creating executive presentations, pitch decks, website content, marketing campaigns, one-pagers, newsletters, and strategic communications materials.
• Strong understanding of commercialization, technology transfer, licensing, strategic partnerships, innovation, translational research, or business development.
• Experience managing communications across scientific, clinical, legal, compliance, executive, and operational stakeholders.
• Able to engage effectively with industry partners, investors, entrepreneurs, foundations, and strategic collaborators.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling, editing, project management, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Prior experience supporting commercialization, venture creation, accelerator programs, licensing, or business development in an academic medical center, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or innovation-driven environment preferred.
• Familiarity with oncology, cell therapy, diagnostics, precision medicine, biologics, data platforms, or related therapeutic areas is highly desirable.
• Ability to travel 30–40% as needed.

Location preference

Los Angeles or Boston.

Pay

Your pay is based on your work experience, qualifications, and work location.

EEO Statement

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.