Healthcare Policy Lobbyist (Biotech)

About the role

The Clinical Trial Abundance Initiative seeks to reform the federal policy and law governing clinical trials in the United States, making them faster, cheaper and simpler. It is a new, founder-led effort backed by a coalition of science philanthropies, aiming to use the 2027 reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) as a high-leverage window for reform. This is a founding leadership, policy and law reform role, not an operations or trial-access role, based remotely in San Francisco.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the initiative's lead voice with legislators, congressional staff, agency officials, health-system and industry leaders, building credibility and trust across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Shape a substantive agenda to reform the policy and law around the cost, speed and complexity of trials, and drive it through the PDUFA 2027 reauthorization and its implementation.
• Design and build a coalition of companies, investors, research and patient organizations and allied policymakers into a lasting interest group.
• Translate the scientific and regulatory case for reform into arguments that move different audiences, in partnership with the Chief Science Officer.
• Set the initiative's strategy for the years beyond 2027, when the work shifts to field-building.

Required profile

• Deep credibility in biotech, life sciences or FDA / clinical-trial policy; this is a subject-matter role, not a generalist government-affairs one.
• A track record of being taken seriously by senior, varied stakeholders such as Hill offices, agencies, industry executives, investors and researchers.
• Evidence of building something durable, such as coalition-building, institution-building or genuine 0 to 1 experience.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with PDUFA, user-fee reauthorizations or FDA review-pathway reform.
• Familiarity with international regulatory models (Australia, UK, EU).
• An existing network spanning biotech, investors, research and DC policy.

What we offer

• Salary of USD 200,000 to 250,000 per year.
• Private health insurance and paid time off.
• Work from home.
• Training and development.