Senior Director, Marketing

Pasadena, CA (On-site)

$250K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 17 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end commercial launch and omnichannel marketing strategy for Arrowhead's products, leading cross-functional teams, agency partners, and market insights to drive awareness and uptake among HCP and patient audiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand planning, including situation analysis, competitive landscape assessment, strategic priorities, and tactical launch plans.
  • Drive product positioning, campaign development, and message development across HCP and patient audiences.
  • Develop and implement market development tactics that build awareness of unmet need among key customer segments.
  • Design and execute integrated marketing campaigns across HCP promotion, patient marketing, digital, and online media.
  • Lead omnichannel campaigns, microtargeting, and next-best-action programs to optimize customer engagement.
  • Support planning and execution of national sales meetings.
  • Work with Business Analytics to generate market insights and optimize customer communication against launch objectives.
  • Manage creative, agency of record, media, digital, and peer-to-peer agency partners.
  • Oversee project timelines and budgets; participate in monthly budget forecasting; ensure spend aligns with annual plan.
  • Partner with Market Access to advance Arrowhead's patient support services program.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 12+ years of pharmaceutical or biotech marketing experience, with 5 years of experience in a leadership role
  • Direct product launch experience required
  • Demonstrated success building and leading marketing teams in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong track record partnering with Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Sales on integrated launch execution
  • Demonstrated executive presence with the ability to influence senior leadership, present confidently to executive-level audiences, and represent the brand credibly with external stakeholders including KOLs and industry partners
  • Experience managing external agencies and marketing budgets
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate, prioritize and handle multiple priorities and projects simultaneously with keen attention to detail
  • Must be comfortable managing multiple competing, frequently shifting priorities, and working through uncertainty
  • Minimum travel requirements of 25% of the time

Preferred

  • MBA or advanced degree preferred.
  • Rare disease, cardiometabolic, or lipid-disorder therapeutic experience strongly preferred
  • Experience in cardiometabolic therapeutic area, preferably with a focus on dyslipidemias
  • Experience in a smaller, rapidly growing, company

Benefits

  • Arrowhead provides competitive salaries and an excellent benefit package.
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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals

3.7 Glassdoor

At Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals we are breaking the mold of medicine. We are pushing the boundaries of therapeutic development and revolutionizing how we care for hard-to-treat illnesses. As a company we harness collaboration and innovation to rapidly advance drugs from discovery to the clinic. All applicants: Please be aware of employment scams using Arrowhead’s name and the names of Arrowhead’s employees. All job related Arrowhead communication should come from the domain @arrowheadpharma.com.

Founded in 1989
Pasadena, California, USA
690 employees
56% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$250K/yr – $275K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
1.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$2.4B
Last Raise
$200M
Post IPO Debt, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Post IPO Equity • $200M
  • Jan 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $625M
  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $325M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
61.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.2%
Direct
38%
Referral
9.5%
Social
1.9%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~699

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