Responsibilities

• Own Celea’s integrated communications workplan, ensuring external messaging is clear, consistent, scientifically credible, regulatorily appropriate , and aligned with company strategy.
• Develop, write, and maintain core corporate external -facing materials, including the corporate deck, external presentation, conference materials, press releases, executive talking points, Q&A documents, website updates, and social media content.
• Partner with executive leadership, Finance, Legal, Clinical, Medical Affairs, and external advisors to support corporate objectives , including conference planning together with medical affairs , Q&A preparation, and company communications processes.
• Partner with Leadership and HR on internal communications, providing strategic messaging and communications support for employee announcements, program rollouts, company news and other key organizational updates.
• Translate complex clinical, scientific, regulatory, and commercial information into balanced, accurate , audience-appropriate messaging for, healthcare stakeholders, media, prospective employees, patients, and caregivers.
• Lead proactive and reactive communications around corporate, clinical, financing, conference, and business milestones, balancing planned news flow with opportunistic visibility opportunities between major events.
• Coordinate media relations and thought leadership activities, including media lists, inbound inquiries, executive preparation, earned media opportunities, and compliant amplification of scientific congress activity and scientific data.
• Oversee external communications, design, wire distribution, website, conference, and agency partners, including scopes of work, timelines, budgets, deliverable quality, and issue escalation.
• Lead strategic planning for Celea’s web presence across key audiences, including patients and caregivers, healthcare providers, career seekers, investors, media, and other external stakeholders.
• Create practical processes, templates, message maps, trackers, and version-control standards that allow a lean company to operate with public-company -like discipline.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, business, finance, life sciences, journalism, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 8+ years of experience in investor relations, corporate communications, financial communications, biotechnology or pharmaceutical communications, healthcare capital markets, or a closely related field.
• Experience preparing corporate decks, message maps , press releases, and conference messaging.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to draft polished, executive-ready materials and translate complex science into concise business language.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, early-stage environment with limited infrastructure and shifting priorities.
• Proficiency using AI tools to work smarter, improve quality, accelerate drafting and research, and build repeatable workflows while maintaining human judgment and accountability.
• Familiarity with rare disease, pulmonary, respiratory, or specialty pharmaceutical markets.