Executive Director/Vice President Global Media Relations, Executive Communications & Comm Ops

BridgeBio Pharma•Palo Alto, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

BridgeBio is seeking a globally experienced communications leader to lead its communications function and shape how the company’s story reaches audiences worldwide. The role sets a unified corporate narrative and adapts it to different media environments, regulatory regimes, languages, and cultural contexts. It serves as the senior media strategist and a trusted partner to company spokespeople, working across media, markets, and science. The position leads communications for clinical data readouts, regulatory milestones, earnings, business development announcements, and other material events in the U.S. and international markets. It works closely with Investor Relations, Commercial, Legal, Government & Medical Affairs, and Regulatory, and leads proactive storytelling as well as communications during scrutiny or crises. The role develops a growing team and oversees agency partners, budgets, communications processes, and measurement. The role is based in Palo Alto and requires regular international travel for media engagements, scientific congresses, investor conferences, and meetings with regional teams and agency partners. Flexibility to work across time zones is expected. Demonstrated international communications experience is required; experience limited to the U.S. market does not meet the stated requirement.

Requirements

Experience leading corporate media relations and communications both inside and outside the United States, including relationships with non-U.S. journalists and adapting messaging across multiple markets, regulatory regimes, languages, and cultural contexts.
Experience managing a communications-related function with direct ownership of strategy, budget, and staffing, and responsibility for managing or building a team.
12 or more years of communications experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare, in-house, at a public relations agency, or a combination, including significant experience supporting a publicly traded company.
Demonstrated success building senior relationships with top-tier U.S. and international reporters and securing high-impact placements for complex scientific and corporate stories.
Direct experience leading communications through material events such as U.S. and ex-U.S. drug approvals, clinical data readouts, regulatory milestones, earnings announcements, financings, or transactions.
Working knowledge of SEC disclosure requirements, Regulation FD, and the U.S. and international regulatory environments governing biopharmaceutical communications, including experience navigating approval processes.
Practical experience with multi-market communications, including embargoes across time zones, translation and localization workflows, and in-country review requirements.
Exceptional editorial judgment and the ability to set messaging direction, improve others’ writing, and communicate complex ideas across formats, channels, and audiences.
Proven success as a spokesperson and as a media trainer and counselor to senior executives.
Ability to delegate effectively and develop direct reports while retaining accountability for the function’s output.
Cultural fluency and judgment about when messaging should be adapted for a market and when it should remain consistent.
Sound judgment, composure under pressure, and discretion when handling confidential and market-sensitive information.
Ability to influence without authority and lead effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed, highly regulated environment.
Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, life sciences, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Lived or worked outside the United States for a meaningful portion of a career, or led a function from the U.S. with genuine day-to-day international accountability.
Deep media relations and media-training experience, including active spokesperson and executive-coaching experience.
Experience managing communications staff or agencies across multiple regions, including building or restructuring an international agency network.
Direct experience with ex-U.S. regulatory and market milestones, such as EMA, MHRA, PMDA, or NMPA approvals; Asia-Pacific approvals; HTA and reimbursement decisions; or EU and UK disclosure and promotional requirements.
Communications leadership at international scientific congresses and experience coordinating with U.S. congress activity.
Experience supporting ex-U.S. partnerships, licensing deals, or regional joint ventures, including partner-coordinated announcements.
Experience establishing communications in a new geography, such as a market entry, affiliate launch, or first-time international listing or investor base.
Advanced degree in communications, business, public health, or a life sciences discipline.
Experience building or scaling a communications function from an early stage, including first hires, agency transitions, and bringing capabilities in-house.
Experience supporting a company’s transition from clinical-stage to commercial-stage operations, including product launch communications.
Therapeutic-area depth relevant to BridgeBio’s pipeline and familiarity with the scientific publication landscape.
Experience partnering with Investor Relations on capital markets transactions and investor-facing communications.
Familiarity with patient advocacy engagement and communications considerations for patient communities across geographies.
Hands-on fluency with AI tools and modern measurement platforms in a communications workflow.

Responsibilities

Lead the U.S. and ex-U.S. communications strategy, establishing a global narrative and adapting it for local media environments, regulation, language, and culture.
Build and maintain senior relationships with priority U.S. and international journalists and editors across print, broadcast, digital, financial, healthcare, science, and trade media.
Oversee cross-border announcements, including time-zone-spanning execution, embargo coordination, and simultaneous multi-market releases.
Ensure crisis and issues frameworks account for jurisdictional differences in disclosure, product safety communications, and media norms.
Develop and oversee proactive and reactive media strategies aligned with corporate, pipeline, and reputational objectives, and direct teams and agencies in executing them across markets.
Define BridgeBio’s presence at major industry, policy, and business-of-health forums, securing speaking opportunities, media briefings, and executive positioning.
Identify and secure high-stakes media opportunities, including exclusives, profiles, and complex scientific stories.
Own the forward-looking global catalyst and announcement calendar, coordinating news flow with Investor Relations, Clinical Development, and Regulatory.
Define regional KPIs for earned media, share of voice, sentiment, and message pull-through, and regularly report insights and recommendations to executive leadership.
Advise the CEO, CFO, CSO, and other senior leaders on media opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
Design and deliver media training and prepare executives and scientific experts for interviews, panels, earnings calls, and other high-stakes engagements in U.S. and international settings.
Set the executive visibility strategy across bylined commentary, speaking engagements, podcasts, international conferences, and owned channels.
Develop and steward an enterprise narrative that connects BridgeBio’s science, clinical progress, business strategy, and culture.
Lead an international team and agency network in anticipating reputational risks and managing issues and rapid response related to data outcomes, regulatory actions, product safety, patient access, litigation, and organizational change.
Partner with Human Resources and leadership to prepare and inform employees globally ahead of major external announcements.
Manage and develop the communications team by setting priorities, delegating, providing direct feedback, and developing roles as the company scales.
Oversee U.S. and international public relations, digital, and creative agency relationships throughout the engagement lifecycle, manage associated budgets, and hold partners accountable for quality and return on investment.
Establish processes, review workflows, and approval pathways that enable a distributed team to work quickly while maintaining accuracy and compliance.

Benefits

Market-competitive base pay, annual performance bonus, and company equity.
401(k) with employer match.
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
Referral bonus for hired candidates.
Subsidized lunch and parking on in-office days.
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
Health Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
Fertility and family-forming benefits.
Expanded mental health support, including therapy and coaching resources.
Hybrid work model with flexibility.
Flexible, take-what-you-need paid time off and company-paid holidays.
Paid medical and parental leave.
Skill development, internal mobility, career pathing, and professional development programs through LinkedIn Learning, LifeLabs, and BetterUp Coaching.
Financial rewards, peer-to-peer recognition, and growth opportunities for strong performance.