Manager of Scientific Communications (DVM or DACVIM)

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bulk bags of highly-processed mystery pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends healthy, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future. 

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 300 million meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

Where You'll Come In

The Manager of Scientific Communications will play a crucial role in scaling all efforts related to and involving vet professionals and drive impact through ownership, development and optimization of all nutritional, scientific and medical content, tools, and products.  The Manager of Scientific Communications will ensure education and communications are medically appropriate, deliberate, engaging, and add value for consumers, veterinary professionals, and the internal TFD team.  You are a driver who enjoys both strategy and execution, and have proven experience implementing high-impact initiatives.  You will be responsible for accelerating consumer and veterinary professionals’ on their journey of trust in and advocacy of TFD.

A successful Manager of Scientific Communications will take the expertise from their training and background and couple this with their innate desire to stay up to date on the latest trends and breakthroughs in science, push boundaries, and forge new paths.  You will leverage internal data and knowledge as well and create meaningful and accurate education to advance the understanding and acceptance of our products with both veterinary professionals and consumers.  You will work closely with the Veterinary Professional Affairs and Relations team to enhance the knowledge of vet pros and drive them through their journey from awareness to advocacy, as fast as possible.  You will take your own knowledge of the veterinary space, and pair it with the deep understanding we have of veterinary professionals and how they want to engage with us, to create best-in-class, impactful experiences and education.  You will work cross-functionally to execute everything/anything, and are equipped to advocate for prioritization and resources to bring products and experiences that benefit vet pros and customers to life. You’ll have the opportunity to take the foundation we have in place today for our customers and vet professionals and evolve it, while maintaining accuracy and personalization. 

This role requires us to completely reimagine how we interact with and educate the veterinary profession, thereby enabling them to maximize their care for their patients. Fundamentally, we want to drive meaningful shifts in an industry that is desperate for change. We don’t believe this is possible by blindly accepting ‘best practices’ or operating how the rest of the industry operates. Instead, we will be tireless to ensure that we fully understand vet pros’ problems and design reimagined solutions to help them and our customers in profound ways.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Own, lead and adapt the holistic education strategy for the veterinary space, including being deeply involved in measuring its effectiveness
• Support Veterinary Professional Affairs and Relations (VPAR) in the creation of all medical and educational content, including but not limited to webinars, CE and lunch and learns + affiliated educational material
• Write and speak as an expert in this space in elements such as white papers, webinars, trade shows, veterinary schools, and other industry events
• Engage with fellow veterinary professionals in a variety of manners, from working with KTLs/KOLs for events, to interacting with generalists who reach out to our CX teams or have detailed, medical and nutritional questions that are not answered with existing material or benefit from a personalized interaction
• Educate the consumer audience through written and audio-visual media to drive their understanding of nutrition and high level care for their pets
• Liaise with R&D as a thought partner on new and existing medical studies and products
• Work with consumer research and the VPAR team t