Medical Director

Role Summary

The Medical Director is a field-based scientific expert who will lead cross-functional initiatives, drive health system impact, and ensure alignment across diverse internal and external stakeholders to improve patient care outcomes. As a strategic leader within the Field Medical team, you will translate headquarters’ scientific and medical objectives into actionable field medical strategies, ensuring alignment and effective execution across internal and external stakeholders. This role blends strategic thinking, field expertise, leadership, and hands-on execution across medical, clinical development, marketing, commercial, pharmacovigilance, regulatory, and market access.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute field medical strategy in alignment with Medical Affairs strategic imperatives and TA objectives, including setting strategic goals, design, KPIs and other success metrics to track MSL effectiveness and field medical impact across the lifecycle
• Translate HQ Medical Affairs strategy into compelling Field Medical Narratives and execute field medical tactics
• Lead strategic medical engagement to understand patient pathways, diagnostic practices, and identify opportunities for health system impact
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize clinical and scientific insights from MSLs, HCPs, and payers to inform HQ strategy, field medical, and clinical development
• Plan and facilitate advisory boards across medical, marketing, and market access domains to inform data generation gaps, access, and educational gaps/strategies
• Develop and deliver payer Medical and PIE decks, training materials, internal FAQs, and strategic medical narratives across affiliates and BridgeBio portfolio of products
• Lead development and review of medical content and collateral for field and payer audiences, ensuring Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) compliance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Pubs and Scientific Communications, Medical Writing, Clinical Development, and Commercial teams to ensure seamless integration of field medical efforts
• Support congress coverage and integrate new data into field training and collateral
• Contribute to internal training and development plans for MSLs and office based medical team members
• Monitor and adapt MSL training programs and scientific materials to reflect emerging clinical data, competitive intelligence, and field feedback

Qualifications

• Required: PharmD, Ph.D., MD, or other advanced healthcare degrees with relevant experience will be considered
• Required: Extensive industry Medical Affairs, MSL, research, publications, or related healthcare experience with a demonstrated record of high performance
• Preferred: Prior experience as a Medical Director or in strategic medical affairs roles
• Required: Direct experience with Market Access/Payer audiences essential
• Required: At least 3 years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with a focus on Medical Affairs
• Required: Demonstrates executive presence to guide organizational change and influence matrix and cross-functional teams
• Required: Demonstrate strong organizational abilities, and effective prioritization, thriving independently in fast-paced, changing environments
• Preferred: Bring expertise in rare disease and cardiology, plus substantial clinical research experience and knowledge of pharmaceutical development and approval
• Required: Strong ability to synthesize complex scientific data into strategic narratives
• Required: Deep understanding of compliance, regulatory guidelines, and MLR processes
• Required: Excellent presentation and facilitation skills for diverse audiences

Education

• PharmD, Ph.D., MD, or other advanced healthcare degrees (as applicable)

Additional Requirements

• Travel: 50-75% of the time; this is a U.S.-based remote role with travel and occasional evenings/weekends, including quarterly visits to the San Francisco office