About the Role:AlphaLife Sciences is looking for a Medical Writer Project Director to lead and coordinate our network of external medical writing consultants and to serve as the quality backstop for the documents they produce - including AI-generated drafts. This is a hands-on management role: you'll own the accuracy and consistency of a wide range of clinical and regulatory documents while acting as the internal domain expert who can review, refine, and elevate output across projects.
This role sits at the intersection of domain expertise, people management, and product. Beyond managing the consultant program day to day, you'll partner with our product team to give feedback on our internal AI tooling and help shape how we deliver medical writing services going forward.
Responsibilities:- Manage a network of external medical writing consultants, coordinating assignments and ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
- Review and quality-check documents for accuracy at a high level, including proofreading and polishing AI-generated drafts, and suggesting AI templates for design.
- Maintain a broad, high-level overview across all document types produced by the team, spanning clinical and nonclinical documents, labeling, and CMC.
- Serve as the internal subject-matter anchor, sitting closer to the domain than anyone else on the internal team, and ramping into content as needed.
- Partner with clients and represent AlphaLife's work in client-facing settings.
- Work with the internal product team to provide feedback on our AI tooling, assess capabilities, and help identify solutions and features for the future.
- Assess consultant skill sets and help reshape and improve the consultant program over time.
- Contribute to longer-term service strategy as a thought partner to leadership.
First 30 / 60 / 90 Days:- 30 days: Get familiar with our internal tooling, generate drafts, proofread and polish documents at a high level, and get up to speed on the consultant roster.
- 60 days: Engage directly with clients, begin giving internal feedback on the product, work with the product team, assess internal talent and skill sets, and begin reshaping the program.
- 90 days: Help define product strategy, act as a thought partner to leadership, and explore the company's service model.
Qualifications:- Executive-level communication skills and comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Some hands-on people/team management experience (this is a working manager role, not purely strategic).
- Strong client relationship management experience.
- Bachelor's degree
- Genuine comfort with AI in the industry - someone who has already embraced AI in their everyday work and understands how it applies to regulated life-sciences workflows.
- Clinical operations, medical writing, or regulatory affairs experience in life sciences.
- Familiarity with pharma / clinical / regulated workflows (or the ability to ramp quickly).
- Existing relationships with pharma consultant networks.
- Early clinical background, with some regulatory knowledge helpful; ability to pick up other related document types.
