DESCRIPTION

At our fast-growing agency, you will have the opportunity to use your scientific and medical expertise to help emerging biotech and large pharmaceutical companies communicate about the most innovative new therapies. Our agency specializes in providing our clients with scientifically and medically sophisticated strategic communications counsel, and we are looking for individuals with exceptional science and medical communication skills to join our team.

We support our clients’ communications goals by ensuring impactful engagement and storytelling with audiences including the most  sophisticated institutional investors, strategic partners, physicians, scientists, patients and caregivers.

We are at the top of our field, with capabilities that span corporate communications, medical and scientific communications, product communications, and strategic advisory.

We have a large number of PhDs and MDs and a team renowned for its talented mentors committed to training and guiding new team members.

Qualifications:

• Experience in the healthcare industry or an advanced science or medical degree
• Experience communicating sophisticated and technical scientific or medical topics
• Excellent writing skills
• Confidence to communicate with our clients’ senior executives
• Experience in communications or public relations a plus
• Knowledge of biotech, pharmaceutical, medtech, health-tech and diagnostics industries a plus

Position Highlights

• Work closely with preclinical, clinical and commercial stage companies developing new drugs and devices
• Become immersed in our clients’ cutting-edge science and medicine by collaborating with biotech and biopharma executives to shape compelling corporate and product narratives
• Work closely with the agency’s senior communications team – excellent learning opportunities
• Professional growth with direct guidance from our highly educated and experienced team of peers and mentors
• Obtain broad exposure to all aspects of the biopharmaceutical industry from the perspective of biotech and pharmaceutical companies
• Grow scientific expertise with exposure to many disease areas and new technologies
• Excellent advancement prospects for those who show initiative due to pace of agency growth
• NYC-based firm with global reach in a dynamic modern office space
• NYC-based role with flexible hybrid work culture

Position Responsibilities

Work collaboratively on teams that include LifeSci Communications’ scientists, physicians and communications experts to raise awareness for our clients by: 

• Assisting in the development of key corporate communications strategy and materials including corporate and product messaging documents, press releases, corporate and conference presentations and more
• Developing media outreach strategies and materials to convey corporate news and storylines clearly and concisely
• Building corporate visibility on social media channels among investors, physicians, scientists, patients and the public
• Developing and implementing corporate and scientific messaging across communications channels
• Collaborating with LifeSci Communications departments, including visual design, social media, and marketing teams, to accurately convey scientific and business concepts
• Building relationships with biopharma decisionmakers
• Interested candidates must include a cover letter