Vice President, Public Relations (Digital Health/MedTech)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States. Hybrid work is available within commuting distance of the New York, NY or San Francisco, CA offices, with three in-office days per week. Fully remote work is available only to candidates residing in the listed U.S. states at the time of hire: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.

Salary: $130,000–$195,000 annually, depending on education, experience, skills, training, internal equity, and local market data.

Company

hirify.global is a strategic marketing communications agency serving technology, healthcare, cybersecurity, energy, professional services, and financial services organizations.

What you will do

• Lead a portfolio of complex digital health and medtech accounts, setting strategic direction and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Advise clients on messaging, positioning, reputation management, crisis response, and technology-to-story narratives.
• Oversee integrated communications, thought leadership, executive visibility, media relations, and amplification across earned, owned, and social channels.
• Build relationships with health technology media, analysts, and industry influencers, and represent hirify.global and its clients at major industry events.
• Manage senior client relationships, account budgets, forecasting, staffing models, margins, retention, and account growth.
• Lead, mentor, recruit, and develop account teams while contributing to pitches, proposals, agency marketing, and Digital Innovation go-to-market efforts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of PR or strategic communications experience, including significant agency leadership experience.
• Deep, direct experience leading communications for medtech and digital health companies, including medical devices, diagnostics, digital health platforms, health IT, or connected health technology.
• Experience scaling integrated communications programs for complex, high-growth clients and supporting or winning new business.
• Strong knowledge of the health tech and medtech media, analyst, influencer, regulatory, and compliance landscape, including FDA digital health/SaMD pathways, FTC, HIPAA, and relevant industry codes.
• Exceptional strategic writing, editing, storytelling, executive counsel, and senior stakeholder management skills, including C-suite and board-level engagement.
• Must reside in an eligible U.S. state at the time of hire; hybrid candidates must be within commuting distance of the New York or San Francisco office.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model and fully remote options in eligible U.S. states.
• Medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, vacation, and extended summer and winter breaks.
• Early Friday log-off through Empower Hours, commuter benefits, monthly technology reimbursement, and wellness benefits.
• Annual learning stipend, mentorship, professional development, recognition programs, and referral bonuses.
• Inclusive, collaborative workplace with team gatherings, quarterly events, and a dog-friendly office environment.