Director, Media Relations

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

Job Description

As the Director of Media Relations, you will lead and develop media strategies to create awareness and drive demand for the company’s early cancer detection product Shield. We believe that by offering an accurate, simple blood test, we can transform cancer screening and help increase compliance rates, serving the millions of individuals who can benefit from early cancer detection.

Reporting to the Vice President of Corporate Communications, you will have the opportunity to shape, implement and manage programs to raise the profile of Guardant Health, its early cancer detection portfolio, and the value these tests bring to patients. We are looking for someone to join our team of diverse, passionate and curious individuals, motivated to transform cancer care and make an impact on people’s lives.

Requirements

• Serve as a strategic business partner to senior executives and cross-functional teams across the organization to ensure communications initiatives ladder up to the company and business priorities
• Serve as an integral member of the corporate communications team developing proactive national and regional media plans as part of a broader communications strategy
• Provide strategic counsel, direction and guidance on the right forum, timing, and messaging to internal and external stakeholders
• Manage communications around key milestones including important data announcements, regulatory milestones and product launches
• Drive day-to-day media relations, managing press outreach, responding to media inquiries, and executing proactive media campaigns to increase awareness of the early cancer detection portfolio
• Lead the development of communications materials including press releases, Q&As, fact sheets, videos, website content, executive talking points and product and company milestones
• Serve as a media spokesperson, build and expanding relationships with key reporters
• Prepare company spokespeople for media interviews and other engagements, including training spokespeople, as needed
• Work closely with digital/social media team to manage the strategy, planning and implementation of Guardant Health’s social media presence in relation to its early detection portfolio
• Manage agency partners, providing teams with appropriate information and oversight to effectively implement programs
• Monitor, measure, and report on the effectiveness of media coverage using data-driven insights to continuously improve media relations efforts and refine strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience; relevant experience at a PR agency or in-house at a healthcare, biotech or diagnostic company preferred
• BA or BS required, degree in communications, journalism, public relations, business or relevant field preferred
• Product launch experience highly preferred.
• Experience developing and executing measurable, integrated external communications plans
• Team player with the ability to work effectively across functions and levels
• Strong understanding of scientific concepts and the ability to translate tech