Medical Director
AdMed
Medical Director
AdMed
Creates medical training tools and courses
AdMed Inc. · Philadelphia, United States (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2026-09-26
Workplace: hybrid
The Medical Director provides scientific and medical leadership across pharmaceutical and healthcare training and marketing initiatives. This role is responsible for ensuring the clinical accuracy, scientific rigor, and strategic relevance of medical content while serving as a trusted medical partner to both internal teams and clients.
The Medical Director works closely with medical writers, instructional designers, creative teams, project managers, and other cross-functional team members to translate complex scientific information into clear, engaging, and impactful training and marketing content. The role also helps guide the thoughtful use of artificial intelligence in content development, leveraging AI to improve efficiency and innovation while promoting responsible use, strong medical writing, critical thinking, and appropriate scientific oversight throughout the content development process.
In addition to content and scientific leadership, the Medical Director participates in client meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions; mentors and develops members of the medical content team; and contributes to business development activities, including proposals, pitches, capability presentations, and the development of innovative solutions for current and prospective clients.
Requirements
* Advanced degree in a life science, biomedical, healthcare, or related field (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent strongly preferred)
* 5+ years of experience in medical writing, medical communications, pharmaceutical training, healthcare marketing, or a related field
* Strong scientific and clinical knowledge with the ability to quickly understand complex therapeutic areas, clinical data, and mechanisms of action
* Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing, and providing strategic direction for scientifically accurate and engaging medical content
* Experience collaborating with medical writers, creative teams, instructional designers, project managers, and other cross-functional partners
* Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills, including experience participating in client meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions
* Experience mentoring and providing scientific guidance to medical writers and other content team members
* Familiarity with AI-enabled content development tools and an understanding of responsible and effective AI use within medical content workflows
* Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven agency environment
* Strong attention to detail, critical thinking, and scientific review skills
* Experience supporting business development activities, including proposals, pitches, and capability presentations, preferred
* Pharmaceutical or healthcare agency experience strongly preferred
Benefits
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support the health, well-being, and professional growth of our team. Benefits include comprehensive health and wellness coverage, paid time off and company holidays, retirement benefits, and opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Team members also have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-enabled medical communications. AI is deeply integrated across our internal systems and workflows, giving our teams access to advanced tools that enhance how we research, develop, review, and deliver content. You’ll work in an environment that actively embraces emerging technology while maintaining the scientific rigor, critical thinking, and human expertise essential to high-quality medical content.
Our collaborative and creative environment also provides exposure to diverse therapeutic areas, leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, and innovative training and marketing initiatives.
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AdMed designs and delivers training tools for pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostic, and medical products. Its services focus on explaining the science behind products to healthcare professionals, sales teams, employees, and consumers. The company uses interactive, immersive learning approaches such as Flipped Classroom formats, enhanced visual micro lectures, and other modern techniques to make complex science easier to understand. A multidisciplinary team of content developers, instructional technology experts, programmers, animators, and medical writers (MDs, PhDs, and PharmDs) creates materials tailored to client goals. By combining advanced technology with strong medical writing, AdMed aims to translate difficult scientific concepts into accessible teaching tools. The company’s goal is to break down complex science and open it up to everyone, delivering measurable learning results.
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