Associate Director, Medical Affairs

Role Summary

The Associate Director, Medical Affairs, will play a key cross-functional role supporting the development, coordination, and execution of strategic medical initiatives across publications, content development, congress planning, and operational excellence. This individual will serve as a core liaison between scientific communications, field medical teams, and internal stakeholders, driving medical insights and execution excellence to support the organization’s strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Publications Lead
  • Maintain and regularly update publication dashboards to track impact, metrics, status, timelines, and deliverables across the publication plan
  • Prepare slide presentations and summarize key decisions for internal publication team meetings and scientific working groups
  • Support the development of plain language summaries (PLS) for key scientific publications
  • Liaise with internal and external authors, agencies, and vendors to ensure timely delivery and accuracy of publication outputs
  • Manage cross-functional teams for publications planning, review, and medical trainings
• Medical Congress Planning
  • Lead medical congress planning in coordination with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Manage medical presence logistics, cross-functional congress calendars, and insight capture/reporting tools
  • Support the development of congress briefing materials and post-congress reports for internal dissemination
• Medical Content Development and Field Medical Content
  • Lead scientific content development and oversee writing projects (manuscripts, abstracts, posters, presentations, publication enhancers) from planning to submission
  • Review tactics for messaging/lexicon alignment, scientific accuracy, appropriateness for audience, quality, and provide direction to medical communication agencies during development, and reviews
  • Lead content development for the field medical affairs team in collaboration with the Field Medical Lead
  • Partner with MSLs to drive medical training decks for all publications and FAQs for high-priority or critical publications

Where You'll Work

This is a U.S.-based remote role that will require travel as needed for visits to our San Francisco Office.

Qualifications

• Advanced healthcare degree, including PharmD, Ph.D., or MD, required
• Relevant experience preferred in rare disease and neuromuscular medicine
• 4+ years of experience in the field of medical affairs
• Experience managing scientific publications and medical operations
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of GPP, ICMJE, AMWA guidelines, and industry best practices that apply to the development of scientific publications, and be able to provide guidance as needed to cross-functional and global stakeholders
• Familiarity with publication management systems (e.g., Datavision/iEnvision) and Veeva preferred
• Strong writing, communication, and project management skills. Demonstrated success in creating and delivering effective presentations to senior-level audiences and to external or internal authors
• Travel ‚Äì 20% time used for travel