Vice President, Medical Director

Digitas Health; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 129,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas Health, a leader in healthcare marketing, seeks a Vice President, Medical Director to ensure scientific accuracy and strategic strength for pharma, biotech, and medical device clients.

The role provides senior medical leadership, mentorship, and oversight of medical-legal-regulatory review while driving growth and client value across accounts. Strong presentation and leadership skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a healthcare or scientific discipline (MD/DO/PharmD/PhD).
• Substantial medical/scientific leadership experience in healthcare advertising, pharma, biotech, or medical device.
• Strong understanding of U.S. pharmaceutical marketing principles and regulatory review.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical and scientific leadership across brands and therapeutic areas.
• Advise clients with scientific insights and strategic recommendations.
• Lead with strategy, messaging, and medical platforms across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Medical leadership

Strategic counsel

Client-facing comms

Mentoring

Presentation skills

Education

MD/DO/PharmD/PhD or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Company Description

Digitas Health is the modern creative agency that takes on the biggest moments in healthcare, raises the standard of creative, and connects people, partners, and ideas to create work that earns its place in culture. Purpose-built for today’s complex and evolving landscape, we partner with some of the world’s largest healthcare brands to do big things by moving faster, connecting deeper, and unlocking new possibilities at the intersection of creativity, data, technology, and empathy. Guided by our purpose, Connected for Good, and fueled by a vibrant, magnetic culture—we deliver meaningful work that drives relevance, changes behavior, and creates lasting impact, always grounded in humanity, not just technology.

As part of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe, we bring together entrepreneurial energy with the scale, stability, and depth of one of the world’s leading communications networks.

At Digitas Health, what sets us apart isn’t just who we work with, it’s how we work and how it feels to be here. Our culture attracts curious, driven people who want to make a difference and be part of something bigger.

Our teams are intentionally crafted across disciplines, perspectives, and experience levels, bringing strategy, creativity, data, and technology together from the start. We believe the best ideas come from curiosity, collaboration, and healthy debate and we expect people here to be thoughtful, engaged, and eager to shape what’s next.

If you’re energized by complexity, motivated by impact, and excited to help redefine how healthcare connects with people, we’d love to meet you!

Position Summary

The Vice President, Medical Director is a senior medical and scientific leader responsible for ensuring the accuracy, relevance, and strategic strength of work developed for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device clients. This role serves as a trusted advisor to clients and cross-functional agency teams, helping shape brand and medical strategy, translate complex science into compelling communications, and maintain the highest standards of medical integrity across assigned accounts. The Vice President, Medical Director also provides leadership to the medical team, contributes to organic growth and new business, and helps strengthen the agency’s overall medical offering.

Responsibilities

• Provides senior medical and scientific leadership across assigned brands, accounts, and therapeutic areas.
• Serves as a trusted medical advisor to clients, bringing forward scientific insights and strategic recommendations that strengthen the business.
• Partners with strategy, creative, account, planning, innovation, analytics, and editorial teams to connect scientific evidence with brand objectives and audience needs.
• Guides the development of medical strategy, disease-state narratives, scientific platforms, messaging frameworks, and healthcare professional communications.
• Ensures the scientific accuracy, clinical relevance, medical integrity, and timeliness of work across channels and throughout the development process.
• Provides senior oversight during medical-legal-regulatory review and helps teams navigate feedback while protecting the scientific and strategic intent of the work.
• Directs and mentors Medical Directors, Associate Medical Directors, medical writers, and other medical team members, setting clear expectations for quality and professional growth.
• Educates internal teams and clients on disease states, mechanisms of action, clinical data, treatment landscapes, and competitive developments.
• Leads or supports advisory boards, expert engagements, and other scientific initiatives, including the development of objectives, content, and outputs.
• Contributes medical leadership to new business pitches and supports organic growth by identifying opportunities to expand the agency’s value to existing clients.
• Partners with creative and art teams to ensure medical imagery, data visualization, animation, and other scientific representations are accurate and appropriate.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant medical literature, clinical guidelines, emerging evidence, market dynamics, and competitor activity.
• Helps establish medical best practices, efficient processes, and consistent quality standards across the department.

Qualifications

Advanced degree in a healthcare or scientific discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, DDS, or PhD.

• Substantial medical or scientific leadership experience within a healthcare advertising agency, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device organization.
• Demonstrated success leading scientifically complex brands and providing strategic medical counsel to senior clients and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of U.S. pharmaceutical marketing principles, regulations, and medical-legal-regulatory review processes.
• Ability to critically evaluate and interpret medical literature, clinical trial data, treatment guidelines, and competitive information.
• Experience developing medical strategy and translating complex science into clear, differentiated, and actionable communications.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop medical professionals while building a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Excellent presentation, writing, editorial, and client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and lead effectively in a collaborative agency environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $129,485.00 - USD $186,060.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 12/7/2026.