Sr./Executive Director, Program Design & Access Strategy

Location: Remote-based; travel, including flights, up to 25% of the time for vendor meetings, congresses, customer events, and internal company meetings.

Salary: $244,125–$337,583 USD

Company

hirify.global is an ophthalmology company developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics focused on preventing blindness and improving outcomes for patients with serious retinal diseases.

What you will do

• Lead the design and evolution of patient support programs focused on patient access and patient and practice experience.
• Shape access strategy planning for the current business and future product portfolio.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration across patient access, hub services, marketing, sales, payer, trade, supply chain, legal, and compliance functions.
• Improve program innovation, customer-facing technology, user experience, scalability, and operational platforms.
• Partner with marketing, legal, compliance, commercial strategy, field access, and hub operations to deliver compliant and effective programs.
• Optimize data utilization, analytics, data flow, and governance to turn insights into improved patient access.

Requirements

• 12+ years of pharma or biotech experience focused on patient and/or market access.
• Deep understanding of the patient access landscape and patient access journey in the buy-and-bill environment.
• Experience building patient support programs, including hub services, commercial copay programs, patient assistance programs, and field access teams.
• Experience leading multiple support programs and optimizing internal and outsourced vendor programs.
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements, strategic planning, budgeting, and program-level P&L.
• College degree required; excellent communication, project management, delegation, influencing, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Recent ophthalmology market experience, ideally in retinal diseases.
• Specialty pharmacy and trade experience.
• Product launch experience.
• MBA or master's degree.
• Knowledge of ophthalmology, optometry, and non-promotional centers of excellence.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-based work with travel for external and internal meetings.
• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a startup-oriented mindset.
• Culture centered on transformational innovation, integrity, compassionate excellence, and inclusive collaboration.
• Focus on diversity, inclusion, ethical leadership, and improving patients' lives through vision care.