Vice President, Commercial Marketing and Communications

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission\: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope is undergoing a transformative evolution of its commercialization and strategic partnerships organization to accelerate the translation of scientific innovation into impactful solutions for patients. As we build a more integrated and externally facing commercial engine, we are expanding capabilities across business development, venture creation, strategic partnerships, translational acceleration, and innovation ecosystem development.

This is a unique opportunity to join and help shape a next-generation commercialization organization designed to strengthen industry collaboration, advance breakthrough therapies and technologies, and maximize the impact of City of Hope’s world-class research enterprise.

The Vice President of Scientific Communications & Commercial Marketing will lead the communications, positioning, marketing, and external engagement strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization. This executive leader will elevate City of Hope’s reputation as a preferred partner for industry, investors, entrepreneurs, foundations, and innovation collaborators while showcasing the institution’s scientific achievements, commercialization opportunities, and growing innovation ecosystem.

As a successful candidate, you will\:

• Develop and execute the communications and marketing strategy for City of Hope’s commercialization organization, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging across all external audiences.
• Translate complex scientific, clinical, and translational innovations into clear, partner-ready narratives for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, investor, entrepreneurial, and foundation stakeholders.
• Lead the strategy, development, launch, and maintenance of City of Hope’s innovation and commercialization website, highlighting partnership opportunities, licensing assets, accelerator programs, and scientific capabilities.
• Create and oversee high-impact marketing materials including executive presentations, pitch decks, one-pagers, scientific content, digital campaigns, newsletters, and business development collateral.
• Drive communications and marketing initiatives for Hope Catalyst, promoting programs, success stories, innovation opportunities, and engagement with investors, mentors, entrepreneurs, and industry partners.
• Partner with Business Development and Licensing teams to develop partnering packages, investor materials, conference assets, non-confidential summaries, and industry outreach campaigns that support transaction generation.
• Support thought leadership, scientific events, innovation forums, investor showcases, and industry conferences through strategic messaging, speaker preparation, promotional campaigns, and post-event communications.
• Build and strengthen the commercialization organization’s brand by positioning City of Hope as a scientifically exceptional, commercially sophisticated, and highly collaborative innovation partner.
• Develop compelling content strategies that highlight breakthrough discoveries, commercialization successes, licensing opportunities, startup creation, strategic partnerships, and patient-impact stories.
• Collaborate across Communications, Legal, Compliance, Government Affairs, Philanthropy, Business Development, Licensing, Intellectual Property, and scientific leadership teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and institutional consistency.