Medical Director; Publications) Remote Remote

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Real Chemistry is looking for a Medical Director, Publications to join our growing team!

The Medical Director leads scientific strategy and content delivery across assigned accounts or programs, bringing deep publication expertise and the versatility to support broader medical affairs deliverables. This role serves as a senior scientific partner to clients and internal teams, helping translate evidence into credible, compliant, and strategically aligned communications across publication and non-publication channels.

The role leads publication strategy and execution while contributing to broader medical affairs content and evidence dissemination across key scientific communication channels. This position connects publication planning with broader medical affairs priorities, stakeholder needs, and integrated scientific communication programs.

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Carmel (IN), or Lambertville (NJ)—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs. We are also open to remote applicants in Canada.
This role requires working eastern US hours .

• Develop and execute publication strategies aligned with client objectives, evidence priorities, and broader medical affairs goals
• Lead strategy for manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress activity, plain language summaries, and other dissemination formats
• Guide evidence gaps, sequencing, target journals/congresses, author engagement, and publication impact measurement

• Provide scientific direction for selected medical affairs deliverables, including platforms, core decks, advisory board materials, medical education content, field medical tools, and congress resources
• Translate clinical, HEOR, real-world evidence, and published data into clear narratives for publication and medical affairs channels
• Connect publication outputs with broader evidence dissemination, omnichannel engagement, and medical education needs

• Provide senior scientific oversight to ensure accuracy, clarity, balance, and strategic alignment across deliverables
• Lead or direct writing, review, and refinement of manuscripts, congress materials, scientific platforms, core narratives, and related content
• Maintain consistent scientific messaging across publication plans, medical affairs materials, congress activity, and account deliverables
• Serve as a senior scientific and strategic contact for clients across publication and medical affairs work streams
• Build trusted relationships and guide content priorities, data interpretation, audience needs, and dissemination formats
• Lead author, KOL, advisory board, steering committee, medical affairs, and cross-functional discussions where appropriate

• Ensure deliverables meet applicable quality, publication ethics, journal/congress, ICMJE, GPP, client, and internal standards
• Oversee progress, risks, review cycles, workflows, timelines, scope, resources, budgets, and client expectations
• Identify issues related to scientific accuracy, evidence interpretation, review complexity, timelines, and stakeholder alignment, and recommend solutions early