Director, Editorial

Responsibilities

• Own editorial priorities and trade-offs across multiple brands and teams.
• Anticipate department-level risks and adjust staffing, sequencing, or focus accordingly.
• Make decisions that weigh quality, capacity, and risk across the full portfolio of brands.
• Hold a firm quality line while knowing when and how to flex standards to protect client outcomes.
• Oversee that staff read for clarity, grammar, and spelling; proofread; fact-check claims; and conform text to FDA regulations, AMA style, and client style.
• Detect patterns that could erode quality or capacity and address them early.
• Hold accountability for QC and editorial quality standards across the department.
• Lean in to edit day-to-day work during launches, label updates, and influx periods.
• Meet client deadlines without jeopardizing the integrity of the work.
• Manage tight deadlines while remaining solution focused and calm in high-tension situations.

Requirements

• 4+ years of copyediting experience, ideally in medical advertising, publishing, or medical communications.
• Three or more years of managerial experience with direct reports.
• Experience across both digital and print materials.
• Facility with and familiarity with pharmaceutical marketing formats.
• Outstanding leadership, client service, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, and comfort with client contact.
• Ability to work autonomously, make sound decisions, assess talent and give feedback across the department.
• Proficiency with standard document software and online routing tools; Adobe Acrobat and presentation software desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in English, healthcare, communication, or science, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

• Adobe Acrobat and presentation software desirable.

Benefits

• Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.