Director, Medical Affairs
New York, NY · New York City · USD 175,000-220,000 · 10+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- New York, NY · New York City
- Salary
- USD 175,000-220,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As Director of Medical Affairs, you are a senior scientific leader within Click Therapeutics' Medical Affairs organization, working across our portfolio.
- You own the scientific evidence and the scientific relationships that establish our treatments with clinicians, payers and the wider medical community.
- This is an agile position within a rapidly growing pre-IPO company in a nascent and fast-growing space.
Responsibilities
- Define the medical strategy for each asset, including the target patient profile, clinical place in therapy, and the priorities that guide evidence generation and scientific engagement.
- Establish the clinical meaningfulness of trial endpoints and outcome measures, and monitor the clinical and competitive landscape to identify emerging tactics, arguments and gaps in our data packages.
- Own the evidence plan to address the evidence needs of clinicians and payers, and drive its execution.
- Develop and maintain the Core Medical Narrative for each asset, and build the field medical materials, medical value story decks and payer-facing scientific content, including the clinical sections of Value Dossiers and evidence packages with Market Access.
- Own the publication and congress plan, managing medical communications agencies and writers as the scientific reviewer accountable for accuracy and balance.
- Establish and own Medical Information to support timely, accurate and balanced responses to unsolicited requests from HCPs.
- Own the engagement strategy for each asset: identify, segment and prioritize the national and regional experts, institutions and payer clinical decision-makers.
- Lead compliant peer-to-peer scientific exchange with clinical experts, health systems, advocacy organizations and payer medical leadership, and direct our scientific presence at major congresses and advisory boards.
- Drive and synthesize field insight into recommendations that shape medical strategy, scientific content and evidence priorities.
Requirements
- Advanced degree required (MD, DO, PhD or PharmD).
- 10+ years of combined industry, academic, clinical research, or other clinical practice experience, of which at least 5 years in the pharmaceutical industry, including experience supporting a product launch.
- Demonstrated experience building medical value stories, scientific narratives and medical response content that hold up with clinicians, payers and regulators.
- Experience planning and executing evidence and publication strategy, including study design, protocol development and CRO, agency and vendor management.
- Prior field-based experience, such as an MSL role, with a track record of building peer-to-peer scientific relationships with clinical experts and payer decision-makers and translating those conversations into medical impact.
- Strong analytical judgment: able to interpret trial statistics and outcome measures; critically assess evidence strengths and gaps; and communicate complex data clearly.
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of or experience with Digital Therapeutics and/or Prescription Digital Therapeutics is considered a plus.
- Experience establishing Medical Affairs infrastructure in an early-stage or pre-commercial organization.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary with Annual Review
- Cash Bonus
- Stock Options
- 5% 401(k) matching
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
Workplace
- This position is based out of Click’s headquarters located in Tribeca, NYC, at the center of one of the fastest-growing digital health communities or remote.
- We have a hybrid working model that consists of at least 4 days in office each week.
