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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Medical Director

Medical CommunicationsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

The Medical Director provides scientific and medical leadership across pharmaceutical and healthcare training and marketing initiatives. This role is responsible for ensuring the clinical accuracy, scientific rigor, and strategic relevance of medical content while serving as a trusted medical partner to both internal teams and clients.

The Medical Director works closely with medical writers, instructional designers, creative teams, project managers, and other cross-functional team members to translate complex scientific information into clear, engaging, and impactful training and marketing content. The role also helps guide the thoughtful use of artificial intelligence in content development, leveraging AI to improve efficiency and innovation while promoting responsible use, strong medical writing, critical thinking, and appropriate scientific oversight throughout the content development process.

In addition to content and scientific leadership, the Medical Director participates in client meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions; mentors and develops members of the medical content team; and contributes to business development activities, including proposals, pitches, capability presentations, and the development of innovative solutions for current and prospective clients.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in a life science, biomedical, healthcare, or related field (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent strongly preferred)
  • 5+ years of experience in medical writing, medical communications, pharmaceutical training, healthcare marketing, or a related field
  • Strong scientific and clinical knowledge with the ability to quickly understand complex therapeutic areas, clinical data, and mechanisms of action
  • Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing, and providing strategic direction for scientifically accurate and engaging medical content
  • Experience collaborating with medical writers, creative teams, instructional designers, project managers, and other cross-functional partners
  • Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills, including experience participating in client meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions
  • Experience mentoring and providing scientific guidance to medical writers and other content team members
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled content development tools and an understanding of responsible and effective AI use within medical content workflows
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven agency environment
  • Strong attention to detail, critical thinking, and scientific review skills
  • Experience supporting business development activities, including proposals, pitches, and capability presentations, preferred
  • Pharmaceutical or healthcare agency experience strongly preferred

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support the health, well-being, and professional growth of our team. Benefits include comprehensive health and wellness coverage, paid time off and company holidays, retirement benefits, and opportunities for professional development and career growth.

Team members also have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-enabled medical communications. AI is deeply integrated across our internal systems and workflows, giving our teams access to advanced tools that enhance how we research, develop, review, and deliver content. You’ll work in an environment that actively embraces emerging technology while maintaining the scientific rigor, critical thinking, and human expertise essential to high-quality medical content.

Our collaborative and creative environment also provides exposure to diverse therapeutic areas, leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, and innovative training and marketing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

The Medical Director provides scientific and medical leadership for healthcare training and marketing initiatives while ensuring clinical accuracy and strategic relevance. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex scientific data into engaging content and mentor staff while supporting business development activities.

Key Skills

Strategic communicationClinical data analysisProject managementCross-functional collaborationInstructional designClient presentationTherapeutic area expertiseRegulatory compliance

Medical Communications — Physician Career Context

In Pennsylvania, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$303k (116 salary observations; 665 listings), vs ~$294k nationally (3,766 salary observations; 15,065 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 8.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-life snapshot

median 5.7this job 1.5
Below most Physician roles listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 19,778 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Philadelphia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$204k
Typical market rent
$1,768/mo
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive health and wellness coverage
Paid time off
Company holidays
Retirement benefits
Professional development opportunities