Executive Director, Scientific Communications

Department: 107200 Medical Affairs

Location:

San Diego, USA
- Remote

Be a part of a global team that is inspired to make a difference in the lives of people living with rare disease.

At Travere Therapeutics, we recognize that our exceptional employees are vital to our success. We are a dedicated team focused on meeting the unique needs of rare patients. Our work is rewarding - both professionally and personally - because we are making a difference. We are passionate about what we do.

We are seeking talented individuals who will thrive in our collaborative, diverse, fast-paced environment and share in our mission - to identify, develop and deliver life-changing therapies to people living with rare disease. We stick by our values centered on patients, courage, community, and collaboration to pursue our vision of becoming a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the delivery of innovation and hope to patients in the global rare disease community.

At Travere Therapeutics, we are in rare for life. We continue to courageously forge new paths as we move toward a common goal of elevating science and service for rare patients.

The Executive Director, Scientific Communications, provides portfolio-level strategic leadership and governance for Travere's scientific communications function, ensuring publications, medical education, congress planning, and scientific content are aligned to advancing Global Medical Affair's (GMA) medical objectives.

This individual will be a member of the GMA Leadership Team and will serve as the senior point of contact for the function with cross-functional leadership, sets the multi-year scientific communications plan and builds scalable infrastructure to support current and future pipeline assets.

• Lead the strategy and integration of scientific communications across publications, medical education, and congress planning, ensuring a unified, portfolio-level dissemination approach aligned to lifecycle and regulatory priorities

• Establish and maintain a multi-year scientific communications plan aligned to pipeline milestones, label expansions, and evidence generation plans

• Ensure consistent scientific positioning and narrative alignment across indications, setting the enterprise narrative framework within which GMA operates

• Define the function's approach to digital dissemination, modular content, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted workflows

• Synthesize competitive intelligence across the portfolio to inform narrative evolution and dissemination priorities

• Own the Scientific Communications function budget, including annual planning, financial forecasting, and expenditure tracking across publications, content, med ed, congress planning, and agency partners

• Direct the strategic sequencing and prioritization of publication plans across indications against portfolio-level objectives and regulatory milestones

• Set the strategic framework within which congress strategy and medical education operate, ensuring alignment with the scientific narrative and portfolio priorities

• Integrate the medical education program (grants strategy, areas of interest, CME/IME compliance) into the broader scientific communications strategy

• Drive innovation in scientific communications dissemination, working closely with GMA's Digital Engagement and Innovation function

• Own the enterprise content strategy and framework, defining how scientific content is created, reviewed, versioned, and repurposed across deliverables ensuring version control and reduced duplication

• Partner closely with Therapeutic Areas, Market Access, Regulatory, Biometrics, and Commercial partners to translate upstream evidence generation and clinical development plans into dissemination strategies

• Align publication and dissemination timing with regulatory submissions, label expansions, and pipeline transitions

• Ensure scientific communications consistency across alliance partners (e.g., Vifor, Chugai), including joint publication governance

• Lead,…