Medical Director, Clinical Development-Rheumatology (Rheumatology)

Location: Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States; additional job posting locations include Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. Domestic and international travel may be required.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare solutions and medicines across Innovative Medicine and MedTech, including treatments for immunological disorders.

What you will do

• Lead the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of Phase 2 and Phase 3 rheumatology clinical trials.
• Serve as medical lead for assigned studies, overseeing eligibility guidance, medical monitoring, safety reviews, protocol deviations, and benefit-risk evaluations.
• Lead cross-functional study teams, manage risks, drive decisions, and deliver study milestones.
• Develop and review protocols, investigator brochures, clinical study reports, publications, and other clinical documents.
• Contribute medical content to regulatory submissions, briefing packages, health authority responses, and regulatory interactions.
• Interpret clinical, translational, and competitive evidence and build relationships with investigators, experts, patient organizations, and development partners.

Requirements

• MD or equivalent medical degree.
• Clinical expertise in rheumatology; board certification is preferred.
• Experience leading or materially contributing to interventional clinical trials, including protocol development, medical monitoring, data review, and study reporting.
• Typically 3 or more years of relevant clinical development or clinical research experience preferred, with pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of rheumatology, immunology, clinical trial methodology, and Good Clinical Practice.
• Strong analytical, scientific writing, presentation, collaboration, and influencing skills, including experience in global, cross-functional, matrixed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with deep depletion approaches or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
• Academic clinical research experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, collaborative, and high-accountability work environment.
• Opportunity to mentor clinical team members and contribute to immunology and autoimmune disease programs.
• Retirement pension and 401(k) savings plan, subject to plan terms.
• Eligibility for the long-term incentive program.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, volunteer leave, and other time-off benefits.