Senior Director,Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Writing Services Job Los Angeles California USA,Pharmaceutical

This is a remote position.
Position Summary

Criterion Edge is seeking an experienced Senior Director to lead its Pharmaceutical Writing Services group, with substantial hands‑on pharmaceutical and biologic regulatory medical writing expertise and the ability to independently author and lead complex medical device clinical evaluations as needed. The Senior Director will provide scientific, technical, and operational leadership for pharmaceutical writing engagements, including oversight of complex clinical submission programs, client relationships, writer development, resourcing, and quality.

The successful candidate must also be capable of independently leading end‑to‑end Clinical Evaluation Report (CER) projects under the EU MDR, including responses to Notified Body questions. This is a hands‑on writing leadership role, not solely a people‑management, regulatory affairs, or review position. The Senior Director must be able to personally author and critically review complex pharmaceutical and medical device documents and serve as a technical authority for writers, project teams, and clients.

Required Pharmaceutical Writing Experience

Candidates must have:

At least 8 years of direct pharmaceutical and/or biologic regulatory medical writing experience, with substantial recent hands‑on authorship of complex clinical and regulatory submission documents.

Demonstrated end‑to‑end leadership of pharmaceutical writing programs or major submission work streams, including planning, authoring, review coordination, issue resolution, and delivery of submission‑ready documents, rather than experience limited to discrete sections, editing, quality control, or project management.

Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate pharmaceutical and biologic clinical regulatory writing strategies, coordinating across clinical, regulatory, biostatistics, safety, and other functions.

Demonstrated ability to advise clients on pharmaceutical regulatory guidance, submission expectations, and implications for clinical and regulatory documents.

Relevant pharmaceutical and biologic regulatory writing experience may include:

Regulatory submissions: INDs, NDAs, BLAs, and global regulatory dossiers.

CTD clinical documentation: Clinical Overviews, Clinical Summaries, Integrated Summaries of Safety (ISS), and Integrated Summaries of Efficacy (ISE).

Clinical development documents: Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), clinical study protocols, and Investigator's Brochures (IBs).

Regulatory authority interactions: Regulatory briefing documents and responses to regulatory authority questions.

Safety and benefit‑risk documentation: Integrated safety evaluations, benefit‑risk assessments, and related regulatory documentation.

Regulatory strategy and advisory services: Development of regulatory writing strategies and advising clients on evolving regulatory requirements and submission expectations.

Experience planning and coordinating clinical submission documents across eCTD Modules 2 through 5, including integrated clinical summaries and major marketing application work streams, is strongly preferred. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to lead pharmaceutical writing engagements independently, including development of the writing strategy, coordination of cross‑functional reviews, resolution of conflicting reviewer comments, and direct communication with sponsors and regulatory stakeholders.

Required Medical Device Experience

Candidates must have:

At least 5 years of direct medical device regulatory or clinical writing experience, with substantial end‑to‑end EU MDR CER leadership experience.

Demonstrated ability to independently scope, author, lead, and finalize regulator‑ready CERs, including resolving complex clinical evidence issues and…

Senior Director, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Writing Services