Responsibilities

• Lead Global Communications
• Global strategy: Oversee the us and ex-us communications strategy end to end — setting one global narrative and directing how it is adapted for each market's media environment, regulatory regime, language, and cultural context.
• Tier One media relationships: Personally build and maintain senior relationships with journalists and editors, across tier 1 press (ex. WSJ, FT, etc), TV (CNBC, BBC, etc), and digital.
• Cross-border execution: Oversee time-zone-spanning announcement execution, embargo coordination, and simultaneous multi-market releases so that news lands cleanly and consistently everywhere at once.
• Global issues readiness: Ensure crisis and issues frameworks account for jurisdictional differences in disclosure, product safety communication, and media norms.
• Build BridgeBio’s corporate and executive visibility
• Media strategy: oversee and partner with leads to develop proactive and reactive media strategy aligned to corporate, pipeline, and reputational objectives, and direct your team and agencies in executing it across markets.
• Own corporate presence Define how we show up at major industry, policy and business-of-health forums (e.g., J.P. Morgan Healthcare, BIO International, BIO-Europe, Milken Global Conference and Future of Health, STAT Summit, Fortune Brainstorm Health, Aspen Ideas: Health), securing speaking slots, media briefings and executive positioning
• Press relationships: Serve as the senior corporate media contact and personally cultivate high-trust relationships with priority U.S. and international journalists across national, business, financial, healthcare, science, and trade outlets.
• Story placement: Identify and land the high-stakes media opportunities that require senior-level access and judgment — exclusives, profiles, and complex scientific stories.

Requirements

• Experience leading media relations via corporate communications inside & outside the United States, relationships with non-U.S. journalists, and adapted messaging across multiple markets, regulatory regimes, languages, and cultural contexts .
• Experience managing a communication-related function, with direct ownership of strategy, budget, and staffing, and responsibility for managing or building a team — rather than executing within a function led by someone else .
• 12+ years of communications experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare — in-house, at a public relations agency, or a combination of both — including significant experience supporting a publicly traded company.
• Demonstrated track record of building senior relationships with top-tier reporters, U.S. and international, and securing high-impact placements for complex scientific and corporate stories.
• Direct experience leading communications through material events: FDA & ex-U.S. drug approvals, clinical data readouts, regulatory milestones, earnings announcements, financings, or transactions.
• Working knowledge of SEC disclosure requirements, Regulation FD, and the regulatory environment governing biopharmaceutical communications in the U.S. and abroad, as well as demonstrated experience navigating the approval process.
• Fluency with the practical mechanics of multi-market communications: embargoes across time zones, translation and localization workflows, and in-country review requirements.
• Exceptional editorial judgment, with the ability to set messaging direction, raise the quality of others' writing, and convey complex ideas across formats, channels, and audiences.
• Proven success as a spokesperson and as a media trainer and counselor to senior executives.
• A track record of delegating effectively and developing direct reports, while retaining accountability for what the function produces.

Preferred

• International and global experience: Lived or worked outside the United States — based in a non-U.S. market for a meaningful portion of your career or having led a function from the U.S. with genuine day-to-day international accountability.
• Deep experience with media and media training including being an active spokesperson & executive coach
• Experience managing communications staff or agencies across multiple regions, including building or restructuring an international agency network.
• Direct experience with ex-U.S. regulatory and market milestones — EMA, MHRA, PMDA, NMPA, or Asia-Pacific approvals, HTA and reimbursement decisions, or EU and UK disclosure and promotional requirements.
• Communications leadership at international scientific congresses and experience coordinating with U.S. congress activity.
• Experience supporting ex-U.S. partnerships, licensing deals, or regional joint ventures, including partner-coordinated announcements.
• Experience standing up communications in a new geography — market entry, affiliate launch, or first-time international listing or investor base.
• Advanced degree in communications, business, public health, or a life sciences discipline.
• Experience building or scaling a communications function from an early stage, including first hires, agency transitions, and bringing capabilities in-house.
• Experience supporting a company's transition from clinical-stage to commercial-stage operations, including product launch communications.

Benefits

• Market-leading compensation
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (transit and parking)
• Referral bonus for hired candidates
• Subsidized lunch and parking on in-office days
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions, plus Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Fertility & family-forming benefits
• Expanded mental health support (therapy and coaching resources)