Vice President, Commercial Marketing and Communications

City of Hope; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Hope, a leading medical center, seeks a seasoned executive to lead scientific communications and commercial marketing. The role focuses on messaging across external audiences, translating complex innovations for pharma, investors, and foundations.

It involves overseeing website content, marketing collateral, and campaigns to showcase opportunities, partnerships, and translational science. The candidate will drive thought leadership, investor engagement, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in scientific communications, life sciences marketing, or related fields.
• Ability to translate complex scientific concepts into market-ready messaging.
• Experience creating executive presentations, pitch decks, and website content.
• Experience supporting commercialization, venture creation, licensing, or business development in academia.
• Strong understanding of partnerships, licensing, and translational research.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the communications and marketing strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization.
• Translate scientific innovations into partner-ready narratives for pharma, biotech, investors, and foundations.
• Lead development of the innovation and commercialization website and marketing collateral.
• Create high-impact marketing materials including presentations, decks, newsletters, and campaigns.
• Support thought leadership, events, and investor showcases with strategic messaging.

Skills

Writing

Storytelling

Editing

Project management

Presentations

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Communications, Marketing, Business, Healthcare, or related field

Advanced degree in Science, Medicine, Business, Communications, or Public Health

Job description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life‑threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope is undergoing a transformative evolution of its commercialization and strategic partnerships organization to accelerate the translation of scientific innovation into impactful solutions for patients. As we build a more integrated and externally facing commercial engine, we are expanding capabilities across business development, venture creation, strategic partnerships, translational acceleration, and innovation ecosystem development.

This is a unique opportunity to join and help shape a next‑generation commercialization organization designed to strengthen industry collaboration, advance breakthrough therapies and technologies, and maximize the impact of City of Hope’s world‑class research enterprise.

Vice President of Scientific Communications & Commercial Marketing

The Vice President of Scientific Communications & Commercial Marketing will lead the communications, positioning, marketing, and external engagement strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization. This executive leader will elevate City of Hope’s reputation as a preferred partner for industry, investors, entrepreneurs, foundations, and innovation collaborators while showcasing the institution’s scientific achievements, commercialization opportunities, and growing innovation ecosystem.

Los Angeles, CA (Boston Considered)

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Develop and execute the communications and marketing strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging across all external audiences.
• Translate complex scientific, clinical, and translational innovations into clear, partner‑ready narratives for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, investor, entrepreneurial, and foundation stakeholders.
• Lead the strategy, development, launch, and maintenance of City of Hope’s innovation and commercialization website, highlighting partnership opportunities, licensing assets, accelerator programs, and scientific capabilities.
• Create and oversee high‑impact marketing materials including executive presentations, pitch decks, one‑pagers, scientific content, digital campaigns, newsletters, and business development collateral.
• Drive communications and marketing initiatives for Hope Catalyst, promoting programs, success stories, innovation opportunities, and engagement with investors, mentors, entrepreneurs, and industry partners.
• Partner with Business Development and Licensing teams to develop partnering packages, investor materials, conference assets, non‑confidential summaries, and industry outreach campaigns that support transaction generation.
• Support thought leadership, scientific events, innovation forums, investor showcases, and industry conferences through strategic messaging, speaker preparation, promotional campaigns, and post‑event communications.
• Build and strengthen the commercialization organization’s brand by positioning City of Hope as a scientifically exceptional, commercially sophisticated, and highly collaborative innovation partner.
• Develop compelling content strategies that highlight breakthrough discoveries, commercialization successes, licensing opportunities, startup creation, strategic partnerships, and patient‑impact stories.
• Collaborate across Communications, Legal, Compliance, Government Affairs, Philanthropy, Business Development, Licensing, Intellectual Property, and scientific leadership teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and institutional consistency.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Communications, Marketing, Business, Healthcare, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree in Science, Medicine, Business, Communications, or Public Health preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in scientific communications, life sciences marketing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical communications, healthcare innovation, commercialization, business development support, or strategic communications.
• Proven success developing scientific, technical, and commercial communications for life sciences, healthcare, biotech, pharmaceutical, or academic medical center audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific and clinical concepts into compelling and market‑ready messaging.
• Experience creating executive presentations, pitch decks, website content, marketing campaigns, one‑pagers, newsletters, and strategic communications materials.
• Strong understanding of commercialization, technology transfer, licensing, strategic partnerships, innovation, translational research, or business development.
• Experience managing communications across scientific, clinical, legal, compliance, executive, and operational stakeholders.
• Ability to engage effectively with industry partners, investors, entrepreneurs, foundations, and strategic collaborators.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling, editing, project management, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Prior experience supporting commercialization, venture creation, accelerator programs, licensing, or business development in an academic medical center, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or innovation‑driven environment preferred.
• Familiarity with oncology, cell therapy, diagnostics, precision medicine, biologics, data platforms, or related therapeutic areas is highly desirable.
• Ability to travel 30–40% as needed.
• Location preference: Los Angeles or Boston.

At City of Hope, you'll play a pivotal role in advancing breakthrough discoveries from the laboratory to patients around the world. If you're passionate about scientific storytelling, innovation, commercialization, and building strategic partnerships that accelerate the future of medicine, we invite you to join us and make an extraordinary impact.

City of Hope employees’ pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.