[Remote] Director, Marketing Communications
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC is seeking a Director of Marketing Communications to lead their MarCom team. This role involves overseeing content marketing, campaigns, events, and collaborating with Product and Digital Marketing to execute strategic omnichannel campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Marketing and Digital Marketing teams to drive integrated campaigns that align with business priorities and messaging strategy
- Ensure company presence at appropriate tradeshows, symposia, and webinars
- Project manage campaigns and events, overseeing all aspects from planning through execution and follow-up
- Ensure campaigns and event marketing efforts are consistent, measurable, and brand-aligned across all channels
- Own the global content calendar and oversee creation of white papers, publication reviews, blog posts, videos, emails, social media, infographics, and more
- Generate content for diverse channels but not limited to web, email, events, and advertising
- Drive search-optimized content strategies that generate qualified inbound traffic and support lead generation goals
- Refine and enforce brand standards (tone, visual identity, naming conventions, templates, etc.) across internal and external communications
- Serve as brand steward, ensuring consistency across marketing collateral
- Manage media partner relationships to encourage the development of earned media opportunities and representation
- Cultivate thought leadership via scientific content and leveraging customers for seminars, webinars, and symposia
- Lead and mentor a small, high-output MarCom team across content, event, and campaign management and regional marketing
- Work closely with Digital Marketing, Product Marketing, and commercial teams to ensure integrated, cross-channel execution
- Define and track KPIs for MarCom performance: engagement, brand awareness, conversion, and content effectiveness
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences, marketing, or related field required
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in marketing communications in the life sciences, diagnostics, biotech, or pharma industries
- A minimum of five years of management experience
- Demonstrated experience leading brand strategy and messaging development for B2B life science audiences
- Experience with Salesforce, Marketo/Pardot, HubSpot, or similar marketing platforms
- Experience managing vendors, budgets, and performance analytics
- Scientific fluency and ability to translate complex concepts into engaging, customer-centric messaging
- Strong leadership skills with demonstrated knowledge and understanding of staff management practices and processes and the ability to establish accountabilities and expectations and manage performance to achieve results
- A professional presence and strong interpersonal skills for interacting in a courteous, timely, and diplomatic manner with all levels of employees as well as other parties/stakeholders involved with the company
- Demonstrated propensity to be creative, collaborative, proactive, and self-motivated in the execution and completion of assigned accountabilities
- Strong business acumen, negotiation and mediation skills, as well as a demonstrated attention to detail and a focus on achieving quality outcomes. Ability to build/foster relationships
- Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills, as well as the ability to handle complex situations and demonstrate sound judgment and problem-solving
- Excellent organizational, planning, and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple and often changing priorities and issues of varying complexity, while meeting time-sensitive deadlines and deliverables
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel that can include overnight stays and working outside normal business hours as needed
- Advanced degree preferred
Benefits
- Employees may qualify for a discretionary or non-discretionary bonus in addition to their base salary.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with prescription benefits.
- We provide a 401(k) plan with company matching
- Flexible spending accounts
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance
- Group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Fitness club membership contribution
- Pet insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Home and auto insurance discounts
- Optional supplemental life insurance
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