Manager, Scientific Visual Communication
United StatesContent DesignRemote
Summary
Leads scientific visual communication team, accelerates content production for BioRender's library, innovates new visual styles and templates with Product, and applies medical illustration expertise to shape product direction and cross-functional initiatives. Requires strong background in scientific illustration, people leadership, and operational execution.
About the role
What You’ll Work On
Accelerate content production
- Ensure the BioRender library is effectively maintained as a world-class scientific visual repository (e.g. monitoring for inaccuracies/errors, content overhauls to eliminate stylistic inconsistencies, resolve content UX issues, curated for different customer segments, etc).
- Find opportunities to accelerate and automate manual steps in the production process to be able to service more scientific communities and fields.
Lead innovative initiatives
- Partner closely with Product leadership to bring new products to market (e.g. lead the execution of entirely new scientific figure styles within the BioRender platform; smart template wizards to create exact figures in seconds).
- Broaden / deepen market reach through strategic content expansions (e.g. icon-sets and visual narratives for cancer therapeutics R&D based on in-depth customer research; “ice-breaker” expansions into bioengineering or agriculture).
Shape product direction
- Apply your medical illustration expertise to inform and influence how complex science should be explained and represented across formats, surfaces, and audiences.
- Support cross-functional partners (e.g. Marketing/Branding) on visible initiatives where scientific communication quality dictates customer understanding, trust, or adoption.
People leadership
- Collaborate with founders and senior leadership to define priorities, turn into clear direction for teams and projects.
- Coach team members toward stronger judgment, ownership, and capability over time.
- Scale and grow yourself by delegating, coaching, and training the next generation of great visual science communicators.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience in scientific communication, medical/scientific illustration, biomedical visualization, life science education, or a related field (Graduate degree in Medical Illustration, Biomedical Visualization, or a closely related program is a plus).
- Deep judgment in scientific visual communication - not just correctness, but clarity, usefulness, and quality for the audience and context.
- Operationally strong, with a track record of accomplishing challenging initiatives with clear ownership, timelines, and measurable outputs.
- A thoughtful and evolving point of view on BioRender’s product, platform, and scientific communication standards.
- Strong point of view on quality, with the ability to explain your reasoning and guide others toward better decisions.
- Experience managing or leading people in a high-bar, collaborative environment.
- Ability to operate as both a functional SME and a strong cross-functional partner.
- Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and high-expectation work.
- Strong curiosity about customers: how they work, what they need, where they struggle, and what good scientific communication helps them achieve.
- Ability to build trust, maintain morale, and keep important work moving.
Details
- Remote-first, with the team coming together in person at least once per quarter
- Competitive salary and equity
- Opportunity to define and lead a new function at a high-growth company
Skills
Medical IllustrationBiomedical VisualizationScientific CommunicationVisual Content ProductionContent AutomationProduct CollaborationCustomer ResearchPeople ManagementCross-functional PartnershipScientific Library Management