Executive Director, Scientific Communications

Department:

107200 Medical Affairs

Location:

San Diego, USA- Remote

Be a part of a global team that is inspired to make a difference in the lives of people living with rare disease.

At Travere Therapeutics, we recognize that our exceptional employees are vital to our success. We are a dedicated team focused on meeting the unique needs of rare patients. Our work is rewarding – both professionally and personally – because we are making a difference. We are passionate about what we do.

We are seeking talented individuals who will thrive in our collaborative, diverse, fast-paced environment and share in our mission – to identify, develop and deliver life-changing therapies to people living with rare disease. We stick by our values centered on patients, courage, community, and collaboration to pursue our vision of becoming a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the delivery of innovation and hope to patients in the global rare disease community.

At Travere Therapeutics, we are in rare for life. We continue to courageously forge new paths as we move toward a common goal of elevating science and service for rare patients.

Position summary:

The Executive Director, Scientific Communications, provides portfolio-level strategic leadership and governance for Travere's scientific communications function, ensuring publications, medical education, congress planning, and scientific content are aligned to advancing Global Medical Affair’s (GMA) medical objectives.

This individual will be a member of the GMA Leadership Team and will serve as the senior point of contact for the function with cross-functional leadership, sets the multi-year scientific communications plan and builds scalable infrastructure to support current and future pipeline assets.

Responsibilities:

Portfolio-level scientific communications strategy

• Lead the strategy and integration of scientific communications across publications, medical education, and congress planning, ensuring a unified, portfolio-level dissemination approach aligned to lifecycle and regulatory priorities

• Establish and maintain a multi-year scientific communications plan aligned to pipeline milestones, label expansions, and evidence generation plans

• Ensure consistent scientific positioning and narrative alignment across indications, setting the enterprise narrative framework within which GMA operates

• Define the function’s approach to digital dissemination, modular content, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted workflows

• Synthesize competitive intelligence across the portfolio to inform narrative evolution and dissemination priorities

• Own the Scientific Communications function budget, including annual planning, financial forecasting, and expenditure tracking across publications, content, med ed, congress planning, and agency partners

Scientific content development and dissemination

• Direct the strategic sequencing and prioritization of publication plans across indications against portfolio-level objectives and regulatory milestones

• Set the strategic framework within which congress strategy and medical education operate, ensuring alignment with the scientific narrative and portfolio priorities

• Integrate the medical education program (grants strategy, areas of interest, CME/IME compliance) into the broader scientific communications strategy

• Drive innovation in scientific communications dissemination, working closely with GMA’s Digital Engagement and Innovation function

• Own the enterprise content strategy and framework, defining how scientific content is created, reviewed, versioned, and repurposed across deliverables ensuring version control and reduced duplication

Cross-functional integration

• Partner closely with Therapeutic Areas, Market Access, Regulatory, Biometrics, and Commercial partners to translate upstream evidence generation and clinical development plans into dissemination strategies

• Align publication and dissemination timing with regulatory submissions, label expansions, and pipeline transitions

• Ensure scientific communications consistency across alliance partners (e.g., Vifor, Chugai), including joint publication governance

Team leadership and portfolio readiness

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable a Scientific Communications team ensuring clear expectations, actionable feedback, and performance management

• Maintain documented succession plans and individual development plans connecting team member growth to business needs

• Enable cross-functional capability development across publications, medical education, and congress planning through structured flexibility and development pathways

• Oversee resource allocation across assets and functional streams, managing a multi-program team where individuals span indications and deliverable types

• Build the systems, agency partner relationships, and governance frameworks needed before new assets enter the dissemination phase

External scientific leadership

• Engage key opinion leaders and academic collaborators in publication steering, dissemination advisory, and congress session development, distinct from field medical engagement

• Represent Travere in publication and scientific communications forums, contributing to scientific discourse with credibility and authority

Education, experience, and travel requirements:

• PharmD, PhD or MD in a related life sciences discipline. An equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered

• 12+ years’ experience within a scientific communications or medical affairs function, with demonstrable portfolio-level leadership spanning multiple assets, preferably in rare diseases or nephrology

• Significant breadth of experience across publications, medical education, and congress strategy

• Embodiment of Travere’s Core Values: Courage, Community Spirit, Patient Focus and Teamwork

• Ability to travel 30% of your time domestically and internationally and perform face-to-face work with colleagues and onsite presence in San Diego

Travere is an EEO/AA/Veteran/Disability Employer

Total Rewards Offerings:
Travere provides comprehensive total rewards offerings that demonstrate our commitment as a diverse, equitable, people-centric, and pay-for-performance organization.    

Benefits: Our benefits include premium health, financial, work-life and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents, wellness and employee support programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with employer match and generous paid time off.

Compensation: Our competitive compensation package includes a combination of both cash compensation (base pay and short-term incentive) and long-term incentive compensation (company stock), designed to recognize, retain, and reward employees.

Target Base Pay Range:

$246,000.00 - $332,000.00

*This information is current as of the date of this posting and may be modified in the future. Actual pay offered to a candidate will depend on a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, education, skills, and location. 

Travere will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position.

Travere Therapeutics, Inc. is an EEO/AA/Veteran/Disability Employer.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@travere.com. Please note that this email address is to be used exclusively to request an accommodation with the online application, interview or hiring process only. Travere HR will not reply to emails sent to this address for any other reason.