Senior Director, Medical Affairs Technology Lead - Content Strategy

What You’ll Do

• Build and Lead a New Technology Team:
  Establish the Content Strategy Technology team; recruit and onboard Technology Product Leads; develop/mentor the team with clear expectations, accountability, and career pathways; foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the Content Strategy Technology Strategy:
  Define and maintain a multi-year roadmap across content management, evidence generation, publications, and medical information platforms; integrate platforms/workflows into a unified capability; translate Medical Affairs priorities into build/buy/partner/retire investment decisions; assess emerging technologies (incl. AI-enabled content creation, automated review workflows) and recommend adoption.
• Partner with Medical Affairs Stakeholders:
  Advise Scientific Communications, Medical Information, Publications, Medical Affairs Research, and Medical Content Strategy; represent the domain to leadership and cross-functional partners (IT, Legal, Medical Governance, Compliance); translate requirements into scalable, compliant solutions; lead adoption, training, and global change management.
• Lead Vendor Strategy and Partnership Management:
  Lead vendor relationships; hold vendors accountable for service levels, timelines, and quality; evaluate new partnerships; establish selection/evaluation frameworks.

• Basic Qualifications
  • Master’s + 12 years OR Bachelor’s + 14 years in pharmaceutical/life sciences technology, product management, or related fields.
  • 5+ years people management experience leading technology/platform/product teams.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • MBA/advanced degree; deep Medical Affairs knowledge (ISR, publications, medical information, scientific communications).
  • Enterprise content management platform experience; track record building teams from scratch in matrixed global organizations.
  • Executive presence; strategic, action-oriented, measurable outcomes mindset; operational rigor.
  • Empathy/team care; strong change management; multi-vendor portfolio management; ability to evaluate/integrate emerging AI in regulated pharma.

Onsite in Foster City, CA or Parsippany, NJ; in office at least 3 days/week.

• Create Inclusion
• Develop Talent
• Empower Teams

Bay Area: $261,375–$338,250. Other US Locations: $237,575–$307,450. May include discretionary bonus, long-term incentives, PTO, and benefits.