Director, Patient Marketing

“Mineralys Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines to target hypertension and related comorbidities such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other diseases driven by dysregulated aldosterone.  Its initial product candidate, lorundrostat, is a proprietary, orally administered, highly selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor.  Mineralys is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit https://mineralystx.com. Follow Mineralys on LinkedIn, Twitter and Bluesky”

Mineralys is a fully remote company.

As we prepare for our first commercial launch, we are seeking an experienced patient marketer who is energized by the opportunity to build from the ground up, establish foundational capabilities and shape the promotional strategy for our first commercial launch.
Reporting to the Head of Consumer and Omnichannel Marketing, the Director, Patient Marketing will develop and execute the patient marketing strategy for Mineralys, supporting disease education, brand awareness, patient identification, activation, and a differentiated patient and caregiver experience.

This role leads patient strategy and content priorities across journey development, campaigns, market research, advocacy, ambassador and influencer programs, and patient support initiatives. The role partners closely with Omnichannel & Digital Marketing to translate strategy into cohesive execution across digital, media, CRM, and social, while remaining accountable for strategic direction, campaign objectives, agency leadership, and budget pull-through.
The ideal candidate is a hands on patient marketer who translates insight into compelling work, leads agency partners with clarity and accountability, and executes with speed and compliance in a launch environment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Insights

•    Own the patient and caregiver journey, identifying the moments that matter across education, identification, treatment consideration, onboarding, access, initiation, adherence, and persistence.
•    Partner with market research to design and interpret patient and caregiver research, social listening, and advocacy input. Translate findings into clear strategic recommendations, messaging direction, and program priorities.
•    Ensure patient strategy is connected to HCP, Market Access, Patient Services, and advocacy plans, with shared accountability for identification, conversion, persistence, and PSP enrollment outcomes.
•    Lead the unbranded disease education and condition awareness strategy in the pre-launch window, building patient understanding of uncontrolled and resistant hypertension and the role of aldosterone. 
•    Partner with HCP Marketing on shared moments where patient and HCP voices intersect, including congresses, advocacy events, and co-developed content.

Campaigns, Content & Support

•    Lead branded and unbranded patient campaigns end to end, from brief through execution across disease education, awareness, and support. Set strategic direction, define success, and oversee content development across print, digital, social, video, webinar, and educational formats in partnership with the AOR, media agency, production partners, and Omnichannel & Digital Marketing.
•    Partner with Omnichannel & Digital Marketing lead to connect patient activation tactics to the broader campaign architecture.
•    Partner with Patient Services and Market Access on PSP design and the broader patient support experience, including enrollment, hub interactions, copay, education materials, and adherence touchpoints, so the program reflects patient needs and reinforces onboarding, access  navigation, and persistence.
•    Manage patient facing materials through Veeva PromoMats and the PRC process.

Advocacy, Ambassador & Influencer Programs

•    Develop and lead patient advocacy, ambassador, influencer, and community engagement strategies, including objectives, audience definition, content guardrails, compliance considerations, and performance measures.
•    Lead patient ambassador programming in partnership with the ambassador agency, including ambassador identification, onboarding, training, content development, program logistics, webinars, peer mentor programs, patient storytelling, and other compliant patient-to-patient education initiatives.
•    Build authentic, compliant relationships with advocacy organizations, ambassadors, creators, and community groups. Incorporate patient and caregiver perspectives into campaign development and the broader patient experience.
•    Define the strategic role of social within patient marketing in partnership with Omnichannel & Digital Marketing, PR, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance.

Agency Leadership & Budget Management

•    Lead the AOR and supporting agency partners across patient strategy, creative, research, advocacy, ambassador, influencer, and support workstreams. Define scopes, deliverables, operating cadences, and quality expectations.
•    Partner with Analytics and Omnichannel & Digital Marketing to define success measures (including NBRx, TRx, persistence, and PSP enrollment indicators where applicable), review performance, and apply a test and learn mindset to improve effectiveness.

Skills and Attributes

•    Strong patient marketing instincts with a track record of translating insight into campaigns and programs that move behavior.
•    Strategic, analytical, and results oriented, with the scientific fluency to operate credibly in a clinical category.
•    Well-versed in DTC and return-on-investment analysis across all DTC channels.
•    Demonstrated ability to lead AOR and specialty agency partners, manage budgets with discipline, and ensure pull-through across campaign workstreams on tight launch timelines.
•    Working knowledge of compliant patient engagement, including privacy, consent, adverse event reporting, fair balance, and PRC review through Veeva PromoMats.
•    Clear communicator with strong strategic thinking, storytelling, and cross-functional partnership skills.

Qualifications

•    Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
•    8+ years of pharmaceutical or biotech experience with significant patient marketing strategy and execution responsibility.
•    Launch experience strongly preferred.
•    Experience leading AOR and specialty agency partners across creative, research, advocacy, and social or influencer programs.
•    Cardiovascular or chronic disease experience preferred.

Travel

•    Up to 20%, occasionally international.

US Salary Range:  $200,000 - $220,000

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