Medical Director

About Medlive: 

Medlive —A PlatformQ Health Brand is the leader in learner engagement and educational design for clinicians, patients, and caregivers seeking dynamic, up-to-date, accurate medical education. Medlive provides trusted digital education in partnership with leading societies, associations and advocacy partner organizations (such as NORD, AAFP, AACI, AAFA, LUGPA, KDIGO, ASPC), empowering learners to make informed medical decisions that lead to better health outcomes.  

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Role Summary 

The Medical Director serves as a scientific owner across clinicians and patient education programs. In collaboration with Medical Strategy, this role drives scientific integrity, learning effectiveness, and cross-functional alignment across the full educational grant lifecycle from concept and needs assessment development, through program implementation, to reporting, and scientific recognition. The Medical Director is an individual contributor who partners closely with Medical Strategy, Business Development, Program Management, Outcomes, Marketing, and Key Opinion Leaders and other external partners to deliver evidence-based education that meets learner needs and supporter expectations and is regulatory compliant. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Business Development Support 

• Drives the scientific foundation of new educational programs from idea through grant submission and provides ongoing scientific support to Business Development (BD). 
• Lead pre-concept and concept development for new educational programs, translating identified practice gaps into educationally sound, fundable proposals. 

• Develop needs assessments for General Medicine topics, ensuring the gap analysis, learning objectives, and outcomes plan are scientifically rigorous and aligned with current evidence and guidelines. 

• Lead needs assessment development for new therapeutic areas adjacent to General Medicine, building expertise as new portfolios are pursued. 

• Collaborate with external medical writers on needs assessments, providing scientific direction, reviewing drafts, and ensuring final content meets internal standards. 

• Provide grant development review and support throughout the submission process, ensuring scientific accuracy and alignment with BD priorities. 

• Advise the BD team on new opportunities based on emerging science, guideline changes, and unmet educational needs; co-develop concepts and scientific narratives for supporter meetings. 

• Conduct pre- and post-conference research, monitor key congresses, and translate evolving science into pipeline opportunities and BD positioning. 
  

2. Program Implementation 

• Owns the scientific quality of funded programs from kick-off through milestone delivery. 
• Lead scientific development and review of slide decks across milestones, ensuring accuracy, flow, fair balance, and alignment with stated learning objectives and regulations. Ensure content is grounded in performance gaps and tied to measurable practice change. 

• Lead scientific development and review of patient education content, partnering with writers, patients and faculty to ensure clinical accuracy and patient-friendly, health-literate language. 

• Collaborate with external writers, providing scientific direction and ensuring deliverables meet internal scientific standards. 

• Lead kick-off calls with Program Management, faculty, and writers to communicate program scope, scientific goals, tone, and timeline expectations. 

• Collaborate with presenting faculty to ensure content accuracy, maintain faculty relationships, and accommodate their availability while protecting program timelines. 

• Develop pre-activity, post-activity, and follow-up survey instruments in partnership with the Outcomes team, ensuring questions measure intended learning and behavior outcomes. 

• Provide weekly status updates, surfacing wins, blockers, and decisions needed and adhere to all scheduled timelines; proactively flag scientific or timeline risks to Program Management. 

3. Reporting, Reconciliation and Scientific Recognition 

• Closes out funded programs with rigor and translates results into scientific output that elevates the company’s educational reputation. 
• Collaborate with the Outcomes team to interpret data from educational programs, identify key scientific takeaways, define next educational steps, and enhance outcomes methodology. 

• Develop pre/post assessment questions, surveys and refining tools to better measure knowledge, competence, and performance change. 

• Lead interim and final report reviews, ensuring scientific accuracy, completeness, and clarity of outcomes narrative before submission to supporters. 

• Lead development of abstracts and submissions for relevant conferences. 

• Lead poster development: determine data to include, populate templates with accuracy. 

• Author and submit articles for publication in appropriate peer-reviewed journals to disseminate program outcomes and enhance the visibility of the company’s educational impact. 

• Present posters at medical conferences as indicated, representing Medlive at scientific venues. 

4. Cross-Functional Scientific Support 

• Provides ongoing scientific consultation to teams across the organization. 
• Marketing: Provide scientific guidance to Marketing and Communications on messaging, learner targeting, and campaign positioning; review marketing materials to ensure alignment with learning objectives and accurate representation of deliverables and audience. 

• Support Marketing with scientific input on supporter-facing presentations and materials. 

• Partnerships: Collaborate with advocacy groups, centers, non-profit foundations, and society/association partners on co-development and review of medical and scientific content; attend partnership meetings to identify additional educational and business opportunities. 

Therapeutic Area Expertise 

Maintain and continuously deepen expertise in General Medicine, including current treatment paradigms, evolving guidelines, key congresses, pivotal trials, and unmet educational needs. Serve as a trusted internal and client-facing subject-matter expert across BD, PM, Outcomes, Marketing, and partner-facing conversations within this therapeutic area. 

Key Competencies 

• Clear, direct, and timely communication with internal stakeholders and external KOLs, faculty, partners, and supporters. 

• Flexible and KOL-conscious, able to operate around dynamic faculty availability while holding scheduled timelines. 

• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple parallel projects without loss of accuracy. 

• Strong scientific writing skills, including abstracts, posters, publications, & needs assessments. 

• Collaborative mindset, solving challenges with diplomacy, creativity, and urgency. 

• Commitment to evidence-based education, health equity, and compliance standards. 

• Leverages AI tools to drive efficiency across deliverables; directs and rigorously reviews all AI-assisted work to uphold scientific and content standards. 

Qualifications 

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, NP, or equivalent). 

• Experience in medical education (accredited and non-accredited) strongly preferred. 

• Experience developing needs assessments, scientific content, and outcomes-driven programs. 

• Track record of abstract, poster, and/or peer-reviewed publication output. 

• Comfort working with KOLs, advocacy partners, and commercial supporters. 

Success in This Role Looks Like 

• Programs consistently launch on time, scientifically accurate, and aligned with learning objectives. 

• Needs assessments and concepts produced by this Medical Director are competitive in supporter review and convert at or above team average. 

• Outcomes reports, abstracts, posters, and publications elevate Medlive’s scientific visibility. 

• Cross-functional team view this Medical Director as a responsive, solution-oriented partner. 

• Faculty, partners and external writers consistently report positive working experience. 

• Operates with clarity, confidence and proactive ownership, modeling accountability and high standards for peers across the medical team 

• Contributes to the Medical team's increased visibility through publications, supporter renewals, and partner requests.