Associate Medical Director, Clinical Development, Rare Neurology (SMA)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

Base salary: $194,000–$266,750 per year, plus eligible short- and long-term incentives.

Company

hirify.global is a mid-sized biotechnology company developing life-changing medicines, including therapies for rare neurological diseases.

What you will do

• Serve as Study Medical Director for assigned spinal muscular atrophy studies from start-up through conduct, analysis, reporting, and close-out.
• Develop and review study protocols, amendments, clinical study reports, training materials, regulatory responses, and other clinical documents.
• Perform medical monitoring and interpret safety, efficacy, and clinical data to support participant safety and evidence-based decisions.
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Regulatory, Biostatistics, Data Management, Medical Writing, Pharmacovigilance, investigators, vendors, and external experts.
• Identify and escalate clinical, safety, data-quality, and operational risks while supporting enrollment and protocol adherence.
• Contribute to regulatory submissions, health authority interactions, investigator meetings, advisory boards, congress presentations, and publications.

Requirements

• MD, PharmD, and/or PhD with approximately five years of relevant clinical research experience.
• Hands-on experience with protocol development, medical monitoring, clinical data review, safety and efficacy interpretation, and clinical or regulatory documentation.
• Working knowledge of GCP, clinical trial design and execution, statistical principles for clinical trial interpretation, and clinical research regulations.
• Strong organizational, project management, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience building relationships with cross-functional and external stakeholders in a global matrix environment.
• Ability to travel occasionally for scientific meetings, investigator meetings, and clinical site engagement.

Nice to have

• Experience in neurology and/or rare diseases.
• Experience supporting global, multicenter interventional clinical studies.
• Experience with regulatory submissions, clinical study reports, publications, investigator meetings, or advisory boards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a global, collaborative, and inclusive biotechnology environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and wellness benefits.
• Paid vacation, company holidays, personal-significance days, sick time, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company matching, employee stock purchase plan, and incentive opportunities.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year and employee resource group participation.