Lead Editor

USA (Remote)

$80K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own editorial review workflow for clinical trial marketing materials, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and client-ready deliverables while driving process improvements and mentoring editors.

  • Lead editorial reviews across email, web, digital, print, and presentations.
  • Develop and reinforce editorial standards, processes, and best practices.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive editorial and proofreading review of clinical trial marketing and patient recruitment materials throughout creative development and prior to client delivery or launch.
  • Review materials for: Grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, formatting, accuracy, clarity, content consistency, AMA and applicable editorial standards, protocol and IRB-approved language adherence, regulatory and legal requirements, brand and style guideline alignment, cross-channel consistency, links, dates, references, disclaimers, contact information, and other critical details.
  • Validate that requested edits, comments, and approvals are accurately incorporated and align with approved source materials.
  • Review deliverables across email, web, digital and social advertising, print, patient recruitment materials, and presentations.
  • Review both content and visual execution, identifying formatting, layout, hierarchy, consistency, and image/copy alignment issues.
  • Partner with Creative, Client Services, Delivery, and Production to resolve editorial issues and ensure materials are accurate and client-ready.
  • Ensure deliverables are editorially polished, accurate, consistent, and client-ready.
  • Support and improve the editorial review process, identifying opportunities to catch issues earlier and improve consistency throughout development.
  • Develop, maintain, and reinforce editorial standards, processes, checklists, style guides, and best practices to improve consistency and reduce errors and rework.
  • Provide editorial oversight and guidance to freelance editors and proofreaders, including training, reviewing work, providing feedback, and helping ensure consistent application of editorial standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of editorial, quality control, production, or operations experience in healthcare marketing, pharmaceutical advertising, clinical trial marketing, or regulated communications.
  • Understanding of clinical trial recruitment and retention materials preferred.
  • Experience reviewing regulated and compliance-sensitive content.
  • Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to identify editorial errors and broader executional risks.
  • Strong knowledge of proofreading, editorial standards, and quality assurance workflows.
  • Familiarity with MLR/legal/regulatory review processes preferred.
  • Experience in fast-paced agency or marketing environments.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience overseeing or coordinating freelance of fulltime editorial resources preferred.

Preferred

  • Understanding of clinical trial recruitment and retention materials preferred.
  • Experience reviewing regulated and compliance-sensitive content.
  • Familiarity with MLR/legal/regulatory review processes preferred.
  • Experience overseeing or coordinating freelance or fulltime editorial resources preferred.
  • Experience developing or supporting editorial and creative quality standards, processes, and best practices.

Benefits

  • All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
  • Monthly cell phone reimbursement.
  • Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
  • 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
  • Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
  • Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
  • Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
  • Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
  • 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
  • Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.

Spectrum Science

Brace your brand. And your career. Spectrum Science is on another frequency all together. We’re a fully integrated strategic platform hyper-focused on science. We’re redefining partnership with a “one P&L” approach that lets us assemble the right team precisely when our clients need it. Our ecosystem of services include: Communications, Clinical Trial Experience, Advertising, Consulting, Media, and Medical Communications – each designed to provide the best solutions for our clients’ unique challenges.And not only do we have global presence—we have global resonance as the US partner and chair of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), the largest independent network of health and science communications agencies worldwide.Follow our journey for industry insights and opportunities to join our award-winning team!

Founded in 1996
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
434 employees (83 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$80K/yr – $100K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
7.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.1%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
6.8%
Social
15.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~434

Lead Editor

Spectrum Science · USA · Remote