Senior Editor, Medical Communications & Editorial Lead

Spectrum Science; United States; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Hybrid offices in DC, NY, Chicago

Cell phone reimbursement

Sabbatical program

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

401k with company match

Headspace wellness

Job summary

Spectrum Science seeks a Lead Editor to provide expert editorial and proofreading support for clinical trial marketing and patient recruitment materials. You will ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with editorial standards across multiple channels.

You will lead and train freelance editors, refine standards, and strengthen processes to deliver client-ready content with high quality and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of editorial, quality control, production, or operations experience in healthcare marketing, pharmaceutical advertising, clinical trial marketing, or regulated communications.
• Understanding of clinical trial recruitment and retention materials.
• Experience reviewing regulated and compliance-sensitive content.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to identify editorial errors and broader executional risks.
• Strong knowledge of proofreading, editorial standards, and quality assurance workflows.
• Familiarity with MLR/legal/regulatory review processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive editorial and proofreading review of clinical trial marketing and patient recruitment materials throughout creative development and prior to client delivery or launch.
• Review materials for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, formatting, accuracy, clarity, content consistency, AMA and applicable editorial standards, protocol and IRB-approved language adherence, regulatory and legal requirements, brand and style guideline alignment, cross-channel consistency, links, dates, references, DISCLAIMERS, contact information, and other critical details.
• Validate that requested edits, comments, and approvals are accurately incorporated and align with approved source materials.
• Review deliverables across email, web, digital and social advertising, print, patient recruitment materials, and presentations.
• Review both content and visual execution, identifying formatting, layout, hierarchy, consistency, and image/copy alignment issues.
• Partner with Creative, Client Services, Delivery, and Production to resolve editorial issues and ensure materials are accurate and client-ready.
• Ensure deliverables are editorially polished, accurate, consistent, and client-ready.
• Support and improve the editorial review process, identifying opportunities to catch issues earlier and improve consistency throughout development.
• Develop, maintain, and reinforce editorial standards, processes, checklists, style guides, and best practices to improve consistency and reduce errors and rework.
• Provide editorial oversight and guidance to freelance editors and proofreaders, including training, reviewing work, providing feedback, and helping ensure consistent application of editorial standards.

Skills

Editorial expertise

Quality control

Production management

Deadline management

Communication skills

Collaboration

Regulatory review understanding

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat

Ziflow

Job description

Spectrum Science seeks a Lead Editor to provide expert editorial and proofreading support for clinical trial marketing and patient recruitment materials. You will ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with editorial standards across multiple channels.

You will lead and train freelance editors, refine standards, and strengthen processes to deliver client-ready content with high quality and efficiency.