Associate Director/Director, Medical Affairs – Publications

Braveheart Bio•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Braveheart Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and other serious cardiovascular diseases. Its lead candidate, BHB-1893, is a next-generation oral small-molecule cardiac myosin inhibitor being developed for obstructive and non-obstructive HCM. Reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs, the Associate Director/Director will own the publications function for BHB-1893. This hands-on, cross-functional role leads the strategy, planning, and execution of a multi-year publication and congress plan to build the evidence base supporting global development and a future launch. The role coordinates publications from concept through submission and publication, ensuring scientific quality, alignment, and timely delivery. It also leads reactive scientific communications supporting the global development and future launch of BHB-1893. Activities must uphold scientific integrity and comply with GPP, ICMJE, and applicable regulatory and industry guidelines.

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, 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 and 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/mechanistic, HEOR, disease-state, review-article, 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 publication concepts and monitor 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 deliver high-quality, data-driven materials on time.
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 timing, positioning, and messaging.
Serve as publications lead on cross-functional teams, partnering with 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; 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 Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Biostatistics, Regulatory, Legal, and Compliance to ensure reactive content is accurate, consistent, and appropriately reviewed.
Work with Field Medical and internal stakeholders to identify content needs, incorporate insights, and prioritize development.
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 follow GPP, ICMJE, CONSORT, and company policies on authorship, conflict-of-interest disclosure, 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.
Travel domestically and internationally approximately 15–20%, including to major congresses.