Associate Director, Marketing

C4 Therapeutics, Inc.; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 199,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

C4 Therapeutics, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director, Marketing to own the pre-launch brand foundation for cemsidomide in multiple myeloma.

You will define market positioning, craft strategic narratives from clinical data, and collaborate across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Market Access, and Corporate Communications. As an early commercial hire, you will design campaigns, run physician advisory boards, manage an Agency of Record, and help build a compliant, non-promotional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in life sciences, business, or a related field with a minimum of eight years in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology space, including at least five years in product or brand marketing, including oncology marketing experience.
• Hands‑on experience turning corporate and departmental strategy into marketing execution with a strong sense of independence.
• Working knowledge of pre‑approval compliance and the Medical/Legal/Regulatory review process.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of disease-state and messaging for multiple myeloma, translating clinical data into clear, compliant narratives.
• Run message testing with hematologist-oncologists, community oncologists, and other customers; refine messages as data mature.
• Build and maintain the core messaging platform and ensure consistent use across venues and audiences.
• Take materials through Medical/Legal/Regulatory review with a clear grasp of pre-approval compliance.
• Lead the search for C4T's first marketing AOR: define requirements, build the RFP, run pitches, and recommend a partner.
• Onboard the selected agency: brief them on the disease area, science, and compliance expectations; set up ways of working, review cadence, and scopes of work.
• Manage the agency day to day, including budgets, timelines, and quality of deliverables.
• Plan and run advisory boards with KOLs and community physicians, in partnership with Medical Affairs, to gather customer insights.
• Set objectives, design discussion guides, select participants, and manage logistics with vendors.
• Synthesize findings into clear recommendations and share them with cross-functional and senior leadership.
• Track the MM landscape, including next-gen IKZF1/3 degraders, BCMA- and GPRC5D-directed bispecifics, CAR-T, and anti-CD38 regimens.
• Lead congress coverage and competitive readouts at key meetings.
• Deliver regular competitive intelligence updates and assess implications for Cemsidomide’s development and messaging.
• Own C4T’s corporate and disease-awareness booth presence at major hematology and oncology congresses.
• Lead booth concept, design, and content with the AOR, medical affairs and exhibit vendors, ensuring all content is non-promotional and approved.
• Manage booth logistics, staffing, budget, and post-congress performance reviews.

Skills

Marketing leadership

Oncology marketing

Messaging development

Pre-approval compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in life sciences or related field

MBA or advanced scientific degree (PharmD, PhD, MS)

Job description

Associate Director, Marketing

Marketing Full Time Management Watertown, MA, US

9 days ago Requisition ID: 1152

Salary Range: $199,104.00 To $219,500.00 Annually

About C4 Therapeutics:

C4 Therapeutics (C4T) (Nasdaq: CCCC) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to delivering on the promise of targeted protein degradation science to create a new generation of medicines that transforms patients’ lives. C4T is progressing targeted oncology programs through clinical studies and leveraging its TORPEDO® platform to efficiently design and optimize small-molecule medicines to address difficult-to-treat diseases. C4T’s degrader medicines are designed to harness the body’s natural protein recycling system to rapidly degrade disease-causing proteins, offering the potential to overcome drug resistance, drug undruggable targets and improve patient outcomes. For more information, please visit www.c4therapeutics.com .

Job Summary

The Associate Director, Marketing will own the pre-launch brand foundation for cemsidomide: market definition, positioning, and early launch planning in multiple myeloma. You will work hands-on, translating clinical data into a clear strategic story and partnering closely with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Market Access, and Corporate Communications. As cemsidomide is investigational, all external activity will be non-promotional and compliant with pre-approval guidelines.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone equally comfortable designing a marketing campaign and running a physician advisory board to get in on the ground level of our commercial build out at C4T. Your skills and passion for this space will allow you to have a front row seat to see what it looks like to build out a commercial function at a small life sciences company as one of our first dedicated commercial hires.

Your Role

Messaging Development

• Lead development of disease-state and messaging for multiple myeloma, translating clinical data into clear, compliant narratives.
• Run message testing with hematologist-oncologists, community oncologists, and other customers; refine messages as data mature.
• Build and maintain the core messaging platform and ensure consistent use across venues and audiences.
• Take materials through Medical/Legal/Regulatory review with a clear grasp of pre-approval compliance.

Agency of Record (AOR) Selection and Onboarding

• Lead the search for C4T's first marketing AOR: define requirements, build the RFP, run pitches, and recommend a partner.
• Onboard the selected agency: brief them on the disease area, science, and compliance expectations; set up ways of working, review cadence, and scopes of work.
• Manage the agency day to day, including budgets, timelines, and quality of deliverables.

Advisory Boards

• Plan and run advisory boards with KOLs and community physicians, in partnership with Medical Affairs, to gather customer insights.
• Set objectives, design discussion guides, select participants, and manage logistics with vendors.
• Synthesize findings into clear recommendations and share them with cross-functional and senior leadership.
• Track the MM landscape, including next-gen IKZF1/3 degraders, BCMA- and GPRC5D-directed bispecifics, CAR-T, and anti-CD38 regimens.
• Lead congress coverage and competitive readouts at key meetings.
• Deliver regular competitive intelligence updates and assess implications for Cemsidomide’s development and messaging.

Congress Booth Presence

• Own C4T’s corporate and disease-awareness booth presence at major hematology and oncology congresses.
• Lead booth concept, design, and content with the AOR, medical affairs and exhibit vendors, ensuring all content is non-promotional and approved.
• Manage booth logistics, staffing, budget, and post-congress performance reviews.

Your Background

Required:

• A Bachelor's Degree in life sciences, business, or a related field with a minimum of eight years in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology space, including at least five years in product or brand marketing, including oncology marketing experience.
• Hands‑on experience turning corporate and departmental strategy into marketing execution with a strong sense of independence.
• Working knowledge of pre‑approval compliance and the Medical/Legal/Regulatory review process.
• Ability to read and communicate clinical trial data with accuracy and confidence.

Preferred

• MBA or advanced scientific degree (PharmD, PhD, MS).
• Hematologic malignancies experience strong preferred, including multiple myeloma experience, ideally on a launch or pre‑launch team.
• Experience at a small or emerging biotech building processes from scratch.
• Familiarity with the healthcare professional community

Compensation

The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $199,104.00 – $219,500.00 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

C4 Therapeutics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.