Associate Director/Director, Medical Affairs – Publications

Braveheart Bio•San Francisco, CA

2d•$175,000 - $245,000

About The Position

Braveheart Bio is seeking an Associate Director or Director of Medical Affairs – Publications to own the publications function for BHB-1893, its investigational cardiac myosin inhibitor for obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs, this hands-on, cross-functional role will lead the strategy, planning, and execution of a multi-year publication and congress plan supporting the global development and future launch of BHB-1893. The role will coordinate publications from concept through submission and publication, as well as lead reactive scientific communications for the program. Activities must meet high standards of scientific integrity and comply with GPP, ICMJE, and applicable regulatory and industry guidelines. The role will build and maintain publication plans across the evidence lifecycle, lead scientific dissemination at major cardiovascular and HCM meetings, coordinate with internal teams and external authors and partners, and develop reactive scientific materials. It will also establish publication governance and infrastructure, oversee agencies and budgets, monitor metrics, and contribute to broader Medical Affairs activities as needed. The position requires approximately 15–20% domestic and international travel, including attendance at major congresses.

Requirements

Advanced scientific degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent).
Associate Director: 5+ years of publications or scientific communications experience in biotech/pharma or a medical communications agency.
Director: 8+ years of experience, including leading publication strategy for a late-stage or launch asset.
Proven experience with strategic publication planning and execution across all phases of drug development, including high-impact journal manuscripts and major congress presentations.
In-depth knowledge of GPP, ICMJE, CONSORT, and related guidance for scientific data communication.
Solid understanding of clinical trial design, statistical methods, and clinical data reporting.
Demonstrated success working in a matrixed, cross-functional environment and influencing without authority.
Strong scientific writing, editing, and data interpretation skills, including the ability to translate complex data into clear, compelling communications.
Experience managing external agencies, authors, and budgets to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables and deadlines.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-moving, resource-lean environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity.
Flexible, proactive, hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 15–20%, including to major congresses.

Nice To Haves

Background or publication experience in cardiovascular medicine, ideally HCM, heart failure, or cardiac myosin inhibitors.
Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP) certification.
Experience with late-breaking clinical trial presentations and simultaneous publications.
Experience with global publications involving ex-US or licensing partners, particularly China-generated data.
Experience building a publications function or processes at a small-to-mid-size biotech.
Familiarity with HEOR/RWE publications and clinical pharmacology data.
Hands-on experience with publication management platforms.

Responsibilities

Develop, own, and maintain the integrated strategic publication plan, including congress disclosures.
Identify and prioritize publication opportunities across clinical, clinical pharmacology, nonclinical and mechanistic, HEOR, disease-state, review, and real-world evidence data.
Define journal and congress targeting strategies, including late-breaking submissions and simultaneous publications timed with major data presentations.
Maintain a backlog of future publication concepts and track emerging data to ensure key datasets are published.
Lead development of abstracts, posters, oral presentations, and manuscripts for major cardiovascular and HCM congresses and relevant specialty meetings.
Manage submission calendars and deadlines to ensure timely delivery of high-quality, data-driven materials.
Plan publications around key data readouts and topline disclosures, coordinating timing with Corporate Communications and Investor Relations.
Monitor competitive readouts and the external scientific landscape to inform publication timing, positioning, and messaging.
Serve as publications lead on cross-functional teams, partnering with relevant internal functions, including Clinical Development, Biostatistics and Programming, Clinical Operations, Clinical Pharmacology, Nonclinical, Regulatory, HEOR, Legal and Compliance, and Commercial within appropriate boundaries.
Align publication timelines with database locks, data cuts, and tables, figures, and listings availability in collaboration with Biostatistics and Clinical teams.
Coordinate joint publications, data sharing, authorship, and alignment with licensing partner Hengrui Pharma.
Engage investigators, steering committee members, and external authors to lead or co-author publications and facilitate author meetings and review cycles.
Ensure consistent scientific messaging across publications, medical communications, field medical materials, and training.
Lead development and maintenance of reactive scientific content, including slide decks, FAQs, standard response documents, and materials addressing unsolicited scientific inquiries and emerging medical needs.
Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure reactive content is scientifically accurate, consistent, appropriately reviewed, and responsive to field medical insights and needs.
Ensure reactive content is evidence-based, appropriately balanced, and aligned with the scientific narrative and available clinical data.
Coordinate content review, approval, version control, and periodic updates.
Build and implement publications infrastructure, including SOPs, a publication steering committee, review and approval workflows, and a publication management system.
Ensure publications adhere to GPP, ICMJE, CONSORT, and company policies, including requirements for authorship, conflict-of-interest disclosures, transparency, and audit-ready documentation.
Select and/or manage publication and medical writing agencies, overseeing scope, timelines, quality, and budget.
Develop and track publication metrics and report progress to cross-functional stakeholders.
Contribute to broader Medical Affairs activities as needed, including advisory boards, scientific training, and medical communications.