Executive Director, Consumer Marketing

South San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$271K/yr – $339K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own enterprise consumer marketing and patient engagement with cross-functional leadership, managing patient journeys, budgets, and vendor strategy across the brand, franchise and pipeline, while aligning consumer and HCP initiatives.

  • Enterprise cross-functional ownership: lead consumer strategy across lifecycle and patient education with senior leadership influence
  • Leadership and governance: develop senior leaders and shape enterprise messaging with multiple stakeholders
  • End-to-end patient journey: connect awareness, education, engagement, and adherence across channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns and leads enterprise consumer marketing and patient engagement strategy, aligning across brand, franchise, and corporate priorities
  • Leads and develops senior leaders, including the Sr. Director, Consumer Marketing and Director, Patient Education, driving organizational performance
  • Represents the voice of the patient and caregiver in senior leadership forums, shaping brand and franchise strategy
  • Leads consumer strategy across the full lifecycle, including optimization of the inline brand and readiness for future indications and pipeline assets
  • Drives integrated strategic planning across Consumer Marketing and Patient Education, ensuring aligned messaging, engagement models, and execution across all patient touchpoints
  • Delivers a cohesive, end-to-end patient journey strategy connecting awareness, education, engagement, and adherence across channels
  • Ensures alignment between consumer and HCP strategies and strong integration between field-based Patient Educators and home office marketing
  • Leads cross-functional collaboration with HCP Marketing, Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Advocacy, Corporate Affairs, and Commercial Operations, including enterprise engagement with Advocacy and Corporate Affairs partners
  • Oversees omnichannel consumer strategy, insights, and performance—spanning digital ecosystem, media, segmentation, journey mapping, and market dynamics—to drive measurable outcomes
  • Owns budgets, campaigns, patient engagement programs, agency strategy, and vendor management, ensuring high-impact execution, compliance with MLR standards, and support for evolving franchise and pipeline needs

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Healthcare, or related field required. MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred. Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical or biotech marketing, with deep expertise in consumer marketing, digital strategy, and patient engagement models.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience required, including:

Benefits

  • Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage
  • 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in
  • 15+ vacation days
  • 13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
  • 10 days of paid sick time
  • Paid parental leave benefit
  • Tuition assistance
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals

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At Acadia, our mission is to turn scientific promise into meaningful innovation that makes the difference for underserved neurological disorders and rare disease communities around the world. Our commercial portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for Parkinson's disease psychosis and Rett syndrome. We are developing the next wave of therapeutic advancements with a robust and diverse pipeline that includes mid- to late-stage programs in Alzheimer's disease psychosis and Lewy body dementia psychosis, along with early-stage programs that address other unmet patient needs.

Founded in 1993
San Diego, California, USA
921 employees (54 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
49% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
35.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
49.4%
Referral
5.5%
Social
7.3%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~921

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
52 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
20 years
Median Tenure
3.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$811.7M
Last Raise
$287.5M
Post IPO Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2019
    Post IPO Equity • $287.5M
  • Nov 2018
    Post IPO Equity • $316.2M
  • Jan 2013
    Post IPO Equity • $86.4M

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