Clinical Account Specialist, Downtown LA, CA
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
August 12, 2026
Remote friendly (Los Angeles, CA)
United States
Sales
Position
The Clinical Account Specialist (CAS) is a field-based role supporting the launch and ongoing growth of Ionis’s first wholly owned commercial product in their territory as the indication expands beyond Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome (FCS) to severe hypertriglyceridemia (SHTG).
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and leverage local healthcare networks/relationships to execute effective business plans.
- Engage key customers and accounts; identify opportunities to improve patient care.
- Educate HCPs and office staff on sHTG awareness, diagnostic pathway, and urgency to treat appropriate patients.
- Create positive prescribing experience via HCP/patient support materials and programs.
- Participate in scientific meetings to educate HCPs on sHTG disease state and treatment.
- Gather insights to profile accounts and provide feedback to field leadership/marketing.
- Understand local referral networks and patterns for sHTG patients.
- Identify, validate, and document potential sHTG-treating HCPs.
- Develop and execute customer-focused territory strategic account plans; adjust strategies to meet regional business goals.
- Participate in field meetings/training; certify on approved label and compliance/customer engagement policies.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure compliant excellence in customer and patient experience; share learnings across the field team.
Qualifications
- Valid U.S. driver’s license and compliant driving record.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5+ years in pharma sales: new product launches, account-based selling, HCP/IDN engagement, cross-functional coordination, independent territory management.
- Background in cardiology/endocrinology and other sub-specialties treating FCS; injectable experience preferred.
- Familiarity with cardiometabolic/lipid diseases (e.g., sHTG).
- Established KOL and major account relationships.
- Ability to analyze market data and develop territory strategies.
Benefits/Pay
- Pay scale: $140,000 to $160,000.
Application
- Apply at http://www.ionis.com; reference requisition #IONIS004093. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. PRINCIPALS ONLY.
The Clinical Account Specialist (CAS) is a field-based role supporting the launch and ongoing growth of Ionis’s first wholly owned commercial product in their territory as the indication expands beyond Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome (FCS) to severe hypertriglyceridemia (SHTG).
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and leverage local healthcare networks/relationships to execute effective business plans.
- Engage key customers and accounts; identify opportunities to improve patient care.
- Educate HCPs and office staff on sHTG awareness, diagnostic pathway, and urgency to treat appropriate patients.
- Create positive prescribing experience via HCP/patient support materials and programs.
- Participate in scientific meetings to educate HCPs on sHTG disease state and treatment.
- Gather insights to profile accounts and provide feedback to field leadership/marketing.
- Understand local referral networks and patterns for sHTG patients.
- Identify, validate, and document potential sHTG-treating HCPs.
- Develop and execute customer-focused territory strategic account plans; adjust strategies to meet regional business goals.
- Participate in field meetings/training; certify on approved label and compliance/customer engagement policies.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure compliant excellence in customer and patient experience; share learnings across the field team.
Qualifications
- Valid U.S. driver’s license and compliant driving record.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5+ years in pharma sales: new product launches, account-based selling, HCP/IDN engagement, cross-functional coordination, independent territory management.
- Background in cardiology/endocrinology and other sub-specialties treating FCS; injectable experience preferred.
- Familiarity with cardiometabolic/lipid diseases (e.g., sHTG).
- Established KOL and major account relationships.
- Ability to analyze market data and develop territory strategies.
Benefits/Pay
- Pay scale: $140,000 to $160,000.
Application
- Apply at http://www.ionis.com; reference requisition #IONIS004093. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. PRINCIPALS ONLY.