Principal Medical Writing Product Lead

About the role

The role is an experienced medical writer who will shape Faro’s AI‑enabled authoring product, working with product, engineering, customers and clinical experts to define workflows, quality criteria, evaluation frameworks and adoption strategies, rather than producing traditional documents.

About the company

Faro is a life‑sciences software company that provides a platform for clinical development teams to capture structured study design data, documents and collaboration in a single source of truth. The company is applying AI to automate the creation of clinical and regulatory documents, aiming to improve trial design efficiency and outcomes.

Requirements

• 7+ years medical writing experience in pharma, biotech or CRO, with responsibility for complex clinical and regulatory documents.
• Deep experience authoring and leading development of clinical trial protocols and amendments; experience with clinical study reports, investigator brochures or submission content preferred.
• Strong understanding of clinical development and cross‑functional inputs (Medical, Clinical Ops, Biostatistics, Regulatory, Safety, Data Management).
• Practical knowledge of global regulatory expectations and document standards for clinical development.
• Experience leading document review and reconciliation across multiple contributors, resolving inconsistencies and translating scientific decisions into clear content.
• Proven ability to work directly with senior clinical and scientific stakeholders and earn trust as subject‑matter expert.
• Bachelor’s degree in life science, health science or related field; advanced scientific or clinical training valued.
• Excellent medical writing skills with a focus on improving the writing process.
• Practical experience using generative AI/LLM tools, comfortable testing, evaluating outputs, identifying failure patterns, and guiding improvements.
• Ability to distinguish scientific judgment from mechanical work and define where human expertise must remain.
• Comfortable iterating on incomplete solutions through fast, practical cycles.
• Ability to think both at detailed sentence level and system‑level workflow redesign.
• Clear communication skills across medical writers, clinicians, product managers, and engineers; able to translate perspectives.
• Comfortable working directly with customers, listening, constructively challenging assumptions, and facilitating adoption of new workflows.