Sr Vice President / Director, Earned Media

Responsibilities

• Lead earned media strategy for clients operating at the center of healthcare, science, business, technology, and policy.
• Partner with senior leaders across Edelman’s health, corporate, creative, digital, public affairs, analytics, and issues teams to build integrated, high-impact programs.
• Shape narratives around the innovations, data, people, and decisions that influence patients, providers, policymakers, investors, reporters, and the broader public.
• Join a team that values sharp editorial judgment, curiosity, collaboration, urgency, and calm counsel in high-stakes moments.
• Serve as a senior media strategist and counselor for major pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare clients navigating regulated, high-scrutiny environments.
• Set the strategic direction for earned media programs spanning product launches, celebrity and creator activations, clinical and data milestones, pipeline announcements, executive positioning, corporate reputation, and issues management.
• Counsel senior executives on the media and reputational implications of FDA timelines, clinical trial data, regulatory approvals, safety updates, policy developments, and emerging industry issues.
• Anticipate shifts across healthcare, media, regulation, and technology and translate them into proactive communications strategies.
• Bring urgency, judgment, and proactive counsel to fast-moving, high-profile client work that often intersects with the news cycle in real time.
• Translate complex scientific, medical, and technical information—including clinical data, real-world evidence, digital health, and AI-enabled innovation—into clear, credible, and compelling narratives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of earned media and communications experience, ideally with significant work across pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, or other highly regulated healthcare organizations.
• Experience counseling senior executives and leading complex, high-profile client relationships and communications programs.
• Strong understanding of FDA regulations, clinical data communications, regulatory milestones, and compliance-driven review processes; direct experience in these areas is highly valued.
• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical innovation, health technology, AI, data analytics, digital health, and the broader healthcare ecosystem.
• Experience leading communications around major product, clinical, regulatory, corporate, cultural, or reputational moments.
• Experience leading consumer earned-led creative activations with celebrities, notable creators, or influential partners is a plus, particularly programs that are strategically grounded, culturally relevant, and built to drive earned media impact.
• Proven ability to contribute to organic client growth and new business development.
• Media Expertise across broadcast, print, digital, trade, and emerging media, including studio production, satellite media tours, visual storytelling, podcasts, newsletters, Substacks, and creator-led journalism.
• Established relationships with health, science, business, technology, and/or policy media.
• Strong editorial instincts and the ability to identify the stories, moments, voices, and platforms with the greatest potential for impact.

Preferred

• Experience leading consumer earned-led creative activations with celebrities, notable creators, or influential partners is a plus, particularly programs that are strategically grounded, culturally relevant, and built to drive earned media impact.

Benefits

• DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.