Associate Medical Director

Working at Real Chemistry and in the healthcare industry isn’t just a job for us. We got into this field for different reasons, but we all stay for the same reason – to uncover insights, make meaningful connections, infuse creativity, and improve the patient experience by transforming healthcare through AI and ideas.

Real Chemistry creates the world around modern therapies with over 2,000 talented professionals, and for the last 20+ years has, carved out its space at the intersection between healthcare, marketing and communications, data & AI, and the people at the heart of it all. We work with the top 30 pharma and biotech companies and are built for uncommon collaboration—we believe we are best together, bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines collaborate without barriers under a single, unified mission: to transform what healthcare is to what it should be. This one-of-a-kind model allows us to work in a way that better reflects how people experience healthcare—all with the intent to transform healthcare from what it is to what it should be. But we can’t do it alone – you in?

Job Summary: 

Real Chemistry is looking for an Associate Medical Director to join our Rad Science team with the goal of producing creative and compelling scientific content and innovative digital experiences.

This unique team includes dozens of scientists and artists specifically trained in illustration, animation, interactive media, and immersive experiences, turning complex scientific messages into simple, memorable stories through congress experience and scientific visualization. 

As part of the Rad Science team (a part of Real Chemistry), Associate Medical Directors are responsible for supporting multiple initiatives as a strategist, researcher, and writer of technical scientific/medical content. 

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs. 

What you’ll do: 

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE: Provides strategic scientific guidance to internal and client teams 

• Acts as a ‘content expert’ by maintaining scientific understanding of specific disease/disorder pathways and therapeutic areas to provide strategic scientific guidance to internal teams 

• Uses scientific understanding of specific disease/disorder pathways and therapeutic areas to incorporate edits requested by clients, thought leaders, and/or internal reviewers 

• Actively participates in relevant presentations and client reviews to strategically discuss content, including negotiating feedback, providing rationale for content decisions, and troubleshooting requested changes 

SCIENTIFIC CONTENT DEVELOPMENT: Utilizes scientific knowledge to develop scientifically robust content that aligns with strategic objectives.   

• Independently develops scientific/medical content, with minimal oversight from scientific strategy leadership, for a variety of deliverables. Deliverables can include presentation decks, visual illustrations, scientific narratives/scripts for animations and interactive media, engagements for scientific congress meetings, and materials for new business and organic growth opportunities 

• Summarizes key scientific communication points succinctly and accurately as well as craft scientific messaging 

• Develops familiarity with client requirements and brand guidelines and applies this knowledge when developing content 

• Proactively incorporates AMA 11 guidelines into all scientific content 

• Performs thorough literature searches to identify appropriate data sources to support content development and key medical claims 

• Supports submission of deliverables by verifying accuracy of scientific content against data sources and completes fact checks, develops annotations, and builds reference packs 

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