Associate Director, Field Operations

Job Title:

Associate Director, Field Operations

Location:

San Diego, CA / Remote

Position type:

FLSA:

Full-time

Exempt

Department:

Finance ID:

Commercial Operations

9230-2025-2

Profoundly Improve People’s lives by Revolutionizing the Delivery of RNA Therapeutics

At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people’s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients. 

Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Opportunity

Avidity is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our growing Commercial team. The ideal candidate will lead efforts to collaborate with IT on the buildout of our Enterprise Data Warehouse and create the reporting strategy that will support Avidity’s pipeline development, commercialization strategy, and long-term business goals.

Reporting to the Director, Field Operations, the Associate Director is responsible for designing, building, and managing multiple business-critical capabilities for Avidity. This includes collaborating with IT to develop an enterprise strategy for Business Intelligence, building KPI dashboards to provide up-to-date insights to all levels of the Commercial organization and executive leadership, and providing an ongoing insightful narrative on drivers and barriers of brand performance. Partnered with Sales, Marketing, Market Access, and Patient Services, this is a critical role in enabling Avidity to measure its commercialization efforts and to identify opportunities to drive adoption better and optimize the success of the company’s commercial products through the generation of deep insights. This role will need to work effectively across key functions within Commercial and other key corporate functions that include but are not limited to IT, Compliance, and HR. 

What You Will Contribute

• Collaborate with the IT team, providing requirements to create the data infrastructure necessary to implement the commercial data strategy, generate actionable insights, and build data models supporting commercial activities.
• Lead the design, development, and governance of reporting solutions across Commercial teams.
• Lead data acquisition and integration strategy, working with vendors such as Komodo, Specialty Pharmacies, and 867 data.
• Drive AI/ML enabled analytics, including predictive modeling and trigger-based targeting for HCP engagement.
• Implement and enhance Veeva CRM, ensuring seamless integration with commercial data sources and actionable insights for field teams.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, and Medical Affairs) to understand and translate business needs into reporting strategies.
• Build and maintain dynamic KPI dashboards to address execution, operational, and performance-related questions.
• Oversee the implementation of BI and analytics tools (Power BI) to drive self-service reporting and advanced insights.
• Partner with stakeholders to define critical business questions, insights, and analytics approaches to investigate and provide answers/guidance to support decision-making.
• Train field-based employees on systems/platforms and create ‘how to’ microlearning videos for reference.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) when handling healthcare and patient data.
• Provide support and oversight to the field vehicle program, including initial implementation support and day-to-day management.

What We Seek

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 6+ years of experience in data reporting, analytics, or business intelligence, with a strong background in pharmaceutical or biotech industries.
• Pharmaceutical launch experience preferred.
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data from a broad range of commercial data sources (specialty pharmacy dispense/status data, specialty distributor data, patient services data, payer claims/formulary status data, CRM data, etc.).
• Expertise in BI tools (Power BI) and SQL-based querying.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and the ability to communicate complex technology concepts to the Business in a manner that relates to their goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated experience as a trusted advisor and thought partner to stakeholders.
• Experience working effectively within a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment.
• Effective presentation skills at all levels of the organization, inc. senior leadership.
• Demonstrated team player with strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel as needed (~25% of the time).

What We Will Provide To You

• The base salary range for this role is $160,000.00 - $185,000.00. The final compensation will be commensurate with such factors as relevant experience, skillset, internal equity and market factors.
• Avidity offers competitive compensation and benefits, which include the opportunity for annual and spot bonuses, stock options, and RSUs, as well as a 401(k) with an employer match. In addition, the comprehensive wellness program includes coverage for medical, dental, vision, and LTD, and four weeks of time off.
• A commitment to learning and development which includes a variety of programming internally developed by and for Avidity employees, opportunities for job-specific training offered by industry, and an education reimbursement program.