Patient Marketing Lead - Movement Disorders

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 192,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Praxis Precision Medicines seeks a Patient Marketing Lead for ulixacaltamide to own the patient marketing strategy for our lead asset in essential tremor. You will translate patient insights, disease understanding, and brand strategy into patient experiences that help people engage with their healthcare providers.

You will partner across Insights, Medical Affairs, Patient Programming, and cross-functional teams to develop campaigns, measure impact, and drive execution with external agencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in business, marketing, life sciences, public health, or related field is a plus.
• Experience in biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical marketing, including patient marketing and engagement.
• Proven ability to translate insights into strategic marketing decisions across functions.
• Experience leading patient-facing communications in a regulated healthcare environment.
• Strong knowledge of patient segmentation, journey mapping, messaging and omnichannel campaigns.
• Ability to align senior stakeholders across multiple departments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the patient marketing strategy for ulixacaltamide, including segmentation, journey mapping, and activation plans.
• Translate insights into strategic decisions by partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Lead development of patient-facing campaigns, materials, and experiences with clear, empathetic communications.
• Align commercial and cross-functional partners around an integrated patient experience.
• Direct external agencies and cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives with timelines and quality standards.
• Define success metrics and use data to optimize strategy, channels, and execution.
• Lead patient brand development from launch readiness to annual planning and budget management.

Skills

Patient marketing

Brand strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget management

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

United States - Remote

Location: This position may be performed remotely but requires flexibility and a willingness to travel as needed.

Position Summary

The Patient Marketing Lead for ulixacaltamide will own the patient marketing strategy for Praxis’ lead commercial asset in essential tremor. This leader will translate patient and caregiver insights, disease understanding, brand strategy, and the treatment journey into clear, relevant experiences that help people living with essential tremor understand their condition and engage appropriately with their healthcare providers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the patient marketing strategy for ulixacaltamide, including patient segmentation, journey mapping, strategic priorities, messaging, channel strategy, and activation plans aligned with the overall brand strategy.
• Turn patient and caregiver insights into strategic decisions, partnering with Insights, Medical Affairs, Patient Programming, and other cross-functional teams to identify unmet needs, barriers, motivations, and key moments in the patient journey.
• Lead the strategy and development of patient-facing campaigns, materials, and experiences, setting standards for clear, empathetic, differentiated communications that align with the brand strategy and applicable requirements.
• Align commercial and cross-functional partners around an integrated patient experience, connecting patient marketing with HCP engagement, patient programming, patient services, access, and other relevant touchpoints.
• Direct external agency partners and cross‑functional teams in developing and executing patient marketing initiatives; set strategic briefs, priorities, timelines, deliverables, and standards for quality and accountability.
• Define success measures and use research, campaign performance, and patient feedback to assess impact, identify barriers, and recommend changes to strategy, channels, and execution.
• Lead the development of the patient brand from the ground up, including launch readiness, annual brand planning, management of the patient marketing budget, and development of capabilities, processes, and partnerships as the business scales.

Qualifications and Key Success Factors

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in business, marketing, life sciences, public health, communications, or a related field is a plus.
• Experience in biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical marketing experience, including meaningful experience in patient marketing, patient engagement, or consumer-facing healthcare marketing; experience leading a brand workstream or major initiative preferred.
• Demonstrated success setting and executing patient marketing strategy grounded in patient insights and the patient journey, with the ability to prioritize investments and influence decisions across functions.
• Experience leading the development of patient-facing communications, campaigns, educational materials, or engagement initiatives through review and approval in a regulated healthcare environment.
• Strong understanding of patient segmentation, journey mapping, messaging, omnichannel campaign development, and marketing measurement.
• Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across Marketing, Medical Affairs, Patient Services, Market Access, Sales, Commercial Operations, Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance.
• Strong agency leadership, budget management, and program management skills, with the ability to set priorities, manage multiple workstreams, and deliver high-quality work against aggressive timelines.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to turn complex disease and treatment concepts into simple, meaningful patient-centered communications.
• Entrepreneurial, hands‑on leadership approach; comfortable building new strategies and capabilities, navigating ambiguity, coaching collaborators, and operating with urgency.
• High level of ownership, strategic judgment, organization, and accountability for results.
• Experience in CNS, neurology, movement disorders, essential tremor, or another specialty disease area is strongly preferred.
• The physical and mental requirements of our roles include but are not limited to regular use of a computer, devices or other office equipment, clear communication, and occasional movement. You'll need comfort with screen work, basic hand coordination, and focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions

$192,000 - $214,000 USD

Compensation & Benefits

At Praxis, we believe that taking care of our people (and

Praxis Precision Medicines is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company translating genetic insights into the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders characterized by neuronal imbalance. At Praxis we share a common vision of reshaping the human condition into a more freeing and fulfilled existence by developing high impact medicines for patients and families affected by and living with complex brain disorders. Our core Values of Trust, Ownership, Curiosity and Results are foundational to every aspect of our business and are exemplified by each and every one of our team members.

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