Health Communications Video Script Writer/Producer

USA (Remote)

$70K/yr – $100K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own end-to-end healthcare storytelling by shaping the narrative before production, directing interviews in real time, and ensuring a clear, accurate final edit for both clinician-focused and patient-centered audiences.

  • Discovery & Client Partnership: Learn clinical problems, medical innovations, and patient impact from both clinicians and patients to inform the story.
  • On-Set Direction & Narrative Shaping: Lead interviews, adapt the story on the fly, and oversee the narrative through post-production.
  • Audience-Focused Storytelling: Balance clinician-facing details with compassionate patient storytelling to meet audience needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You are the internal subject matter expert and narrative lead on each project.
  • This is a client facing role where you develop and own the story end-to-end — from needs assessment, pre-script writing, pre-production, on set interviews, through post production and editing.
  • You are responsible for shaping the narrative before the shoot, directing and adapting it in real time during interviews, and ensuring the story comes together clearly and accurately in the final edit.
  • Approximately 60% of this role focuses on clinician-facing content and 40% on patient-centered storytelling.
  • Listen to clients explain their business problem and learn as much as you can about the medical innovation and disease states they support.
  • Learn from clinicians who explain how they use the innovation, which features and benefits matter to them, and how it benefits patients.
  • Interview patients with compassion and understanding of their unique situations.
  • Speak and write in a way that earns respect and understanding from clinicians as well as be able to switch gears/tov into patient-facing storytelling, depending on the audience.
  • This role requires ownership across the full storytelling lifecycle: Learn Fast, Go Deep; Discovery & Client Partnership; Shape the Story Concept Before Production; Lead Interviews On Set; Create the Narrative.

Requirements

  • Experience working in healthcare, medtech, pharma, or clinical environments.
  • Proven ability to learn complex topics fast and explain them succinctly.
  • Strong writing + storytelling ability.
  • Experience interviewing patients and clinicians.
  • Meticulous communication and thinking—able to operate in highly regulated environments where precision, accuracy, and professionalism are non-negotiable.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Must work PST/MST hours.

Preferred

  • Bonus Points: Experience navigating legal, medical or compliance guidelines in regulated content environments.
Authentica Media logo

Authentica Media

Authentica Media is a creative video agency that collaborates with the world’s best healthcare brands to strengthen connections with patients, clinicians, and employees. Through authentic engaging video storytelling, we help patients get access to the life-changing medical innovations they need. We employ a proven approach that leverages real people, authentic voices and emotional engagement. We’re experts at our craft – as is evidenced by more than 200 international awards and decades of repeat clients, including Edwards Lifesciences, Amgen, Novartis, Genzyme, AMO, Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, and Prolacta Bioscience. We’re proud of the many companies that have worked with us 15 years or more, returning time and again because our work delivers results. Clients often tell us they lack the time or bandwidth to drive yet another large project with a challenging time frame. This is our niche. With Authentica, you’ve engaged full-service, collaborative partners that offer far more than nuts and bolts production. We’re a hybrid creative agency/production team capable of expanding your back-of-the-napkin concept into a powerful strategic vision that drives the project forward. We work diligently to understand your audience and its triggers, develop fit-for-purpose creative, and execute without requiring hand-holding. Then, our bullet-proof process eliminates surprises and delivers a final product that is on-time, on-target, on-budget. And when that final cut lands on your desk, you’ll be the hero.Clients love how easy we make the process, and that we’re vested in their success. Let us help you tell your story.

Founded in 1995
Los Angeles, California, USA
9 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
188
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.4%
Direct
42%
Referral
12.7%
Social
10%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (22% of company)