Digital Communications Specialist

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive social content, asset coordination, and basic analytics for Vertex’s global digital channels in a regulated biotech context.

  • Maintain the social content calendar and coordinate assets, approvals, and publishing for organic and paid content.
  • Must-have: hands-on social media execution and familiarity with CMS tools.
  • Standout: experience coordinating with agencies and working in a global, regulated environment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the social media content calendar, coordinating assets, approvals, and publishing for organic and paid content with a high level of accuracy, consistency, and channel-appropriate voice.
  • Support community management and social monitoring, identifying and flagging issues or trends for the broader team.
  • Help manage the Vertex web estate, including publishing, and maintaining site inventory.
  • Edit content across channels, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to channel‑specific voice and tone.
  • Support paid digital media campaigns by coordinating assets, timelines, and updates with agency partners.
  • Coordinate reviews and gather inputs from subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure timely execution of deliverables.
  • Support the regulatory review process by preparing and submitting materials, tracking feedback, and implementing approved changes.
  • Help track and compile performance metrics, supporting basic reporting and optimization efforts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Digital Media, or related field.
  • Strong experience in digital communications, social media, or a related role.
  • Agency experience is an asset.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with reliable follow through.
  • Hands on experience executing social media content.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast paced environment.
  • Collaborative, responsive, and open to feedback.
  • Familiarity with social platforms, content management system (CMS) tools, and basic analytics.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience proofreading various styles of copy and editing for grammar and voice.
  • Curious, proactive, and motivated to build a broad digital communications toolkit.
  • Ability to work effectively in a global, highly regulated environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases and has made significant advancements in multiple chronic, life-shortening genetic diseases — cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, and acute pain — and continues to progress clinical and research programs in these diseases. We also have a robust clinical pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of modalities in other serious diseases where we have deep insight into causal human biology, including acute and neuropathic pain, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, IgA nephropathy, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, type 1 diabetes, myotonic dystrophy type 1 and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Our global headquarters is in Boston, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices worldwide.Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. We have also earned a spot on TIME Most Influential Companies, TIME Best Inventions, and Fast Company Most Innovative Companies lists. Our research and medicines have received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the Prix Galien, the Scrip Award and the Breakthrough Prize awards.Read our community guidelines: https://www.vrtx.com/vertexs-community-guidelines/

Founded in 1989
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6.1K employees (282 in marketing)
83% recommend to a friend
88% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
340.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$44.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.6%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
22.7%
Social
1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
258 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years

Funding

Total Funding
$657.3M
Last Raise
$1.1M
Post IPO Secondary, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2024
    Post IPO Secondary • $1.1M
  • May 2022
    Post IPO Equity • $50M
  • Dec 2009
    Post IPO Equity • $443M

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