Medical Director, Dermatology and Respiratory – Clinical Development

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Clinical Development & Research – MD

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

We are searching for outstanding talent for Medical Director, Dermatology and Respiratory to join the Clinical Development team located ideally in Spring House, PA; other J&J Innovative Medicine R&D locations, including Cambridge, MA or La Jolla, CA, may be considered.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Our Immunology team leads in the development of transformational medicines for immunological disorders and illnesses. You can influence where medicine is going by restoring health to millions of people living with immune diseases.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at

The Medical Director provides medical and scientific leadership for late-stage dermatology and respiratory clinical development. The role leads assigned studies and contributes to program strategy, with accountability for rigorous trial design, participant safety, medical oversight, data interpretation, and high-quality clinical and regulatory deliverables across immune-mediated respiratory, dermatologic, and allergic diseases.

You will be responsible for:

Lead the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of Phase 2 and Phase 3 respiratory, allergy, or dermatology trials, aligned with clinical development strategy, Good Clinical Practice, and global regulatory requirements.

Serve as medical lead for assigned studies, including eligibility guidance, medical monitoring, safety review, protocol deviation assessment, data review, and ongoing benefit-risk evaluation.

Lead cross-functional study teams and partner closely with clinical scientists and matrix stakeholders to help drive timely decisions, risk mitigation, and delivery of study milestones from study concept and start-up through database lock, reporting, disclosure, and close-out.

Develop and review clinical documents, including study concepts, protocols, case report forms, operational and analytic plans, investigator brochures, statistical analysis inputs, clinical study reports, publications, and other scientific communications.

Contribute medical content to regulatory submissions, briefing packages, health authority responses, labeling proposals, and regulatory interactions, including marketing application activities when applicable.

Interpret emerging clinical, translational, and competitive evidence and translate it into actionable development recommendations.

Build credible relationships with investigators, external experts, patient organizations, development partners, and health authorities, and represent J&J Innovative Medicine and the Immunology TA with professionalism and integrity both internally and externally.

Support disease- and pathway-area strategy, including indication and target prioritization, future treatment paradigms, precision medicine, patient stratification, and novel outcome measures for clinical trials, practice, or labeling.

Support assessment and due diligence of new mechanisms, modalities, and external opportunities relevant to respiratory medicine, allergy, dermatology, and immune-mediated inflammatory disease.

Mentor clinical team members and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and high-accountability culture.

MD or equivalent medical degree is required. Clinical expertise in pulmonology, allergy, asthma, and immunology, or a closely related discipline is strongly preferred, with…