Medical Director, Clinical Science

The Medical Director, Clinical Science will lead high-impact initiatives to advance patient care by identifying clinical opportunities, developing a relevant strategy with supporting scientific programs and high-impact scientific content to accelerate clinical adoption.

Working cross-functionally and with external scientific collaborators, this role will independently lead initiatives to improve patient outcomes through the interface of patient-product evidence.

The role requires a physician with clinical experience who is capable of developing scientific strategies that have the highest patient impact, generating related scientific content, leading external collaborations, and driving clinically meaningful programs from concept through execution.

• Execute opportunity identification and lead high patient-impact clinical initiatives
• Develop strategies to optimize patient outcomes
• Translate emerging scientific opportunities into actionable clinical programs

• Lead development of scientific content, including abstracts, manuscripts, advisory board materials, executive presentations, and scientific communications  
• Serve as scientific content lead for priority congresses and publication programs, partnering with Publications and Medical Information to maximize scientific impact and content amplification
• Develop scientific narratives that support clinicians to optimize patient results

• Support and extend the strategy for programs to address latent key clinical challenges
• Design prospective observational clinical studies with external investigators with Evidence Generation, leading protocol development with a lens of clinical relevance, supporting study planning, budgets, and execution in collaboration with internal and external partners
• Lead strategic scientific collaborations and translate scientific progress into executive and Board-level communications, integrating results and insights into adaptive strategies, publications, and future clinical initiatives

• Partner with Field Medical to accelerate priority initiatives through targeted scientific engagement, leveraging strategic relationships to build alignment around key patient-oriented initiatives (e.g., women, comorbid CKD)
• Support focused advisory boards, scientific roundtables, and targeted regional initiatives and programs to lend clinical expertise
• Develop new scientific concepts and collaborations to expand BridgeBio’s patient impact   

This is a U.S.-based remote role that will require as needed visits to our San Francisco Office, as well as periodic travel for investigator meetings and scientific congresses.

• MD, background or experience in the cardiovascular therapeutic area a plus
• Demonstrated ability to identify latent clinical and patient needs and to develop strategies and tactics to execute
• Strong publication record with experience independently developing scientific content
• Experience designing prospective and retrospective observational clinical studies
• Strong understanding of clinical trial interpretation and evidence development
• Excellent scientific writing and communication skills
• Ability to independently lead complex cross-functional scientific and clinical initiatives
• Demonstrated success building productive external scientific collaborations