Health Communications Video Script Writer/Producer

Role Description

This role is a health and medical video scriptwriter/storyteller with some interview-driven producing experience.

The right fit for this role has experience in:

• Understanding complex medical science quickly
• Thinking critically
• Connecting deeply with patients and clinicians
• Turning those connections into creatively engaging, interview-driven videos

You are the internal subject matter expert and narrative lead on each project. This is a client-facing role where you develop and own the story end-to-end — from needs assessment, pre-script writing, pre-production, on-set interviews, through post-production and editing.

Approximately 60% of this role focuses on clinician-facing content and 40% on patient-centered storytelling.

You will:

• Listen to clients explain their business problem and learn as much as you can about the medical innovation and disease states they support
• Learn from clinicians who explain how they use the innovation, which features and benefits matter to them, and how it benefits patients
• Interview patients with compassion and understanding of their unique situations
• Speak and write in a way that earns respect and understanding from clinicians as well as be able to switch gears/TOV into patient-facing storytelling, depending on the audience

Qualifications

• Understanding and has some end-to-end experience with the corporate/branded documentary film production process
• Can quickly learn complex medical and engineering innovation topics and explain them clearly
• Is both analytical and emotionally intelligent
• Is outgoing and warm, comfortable engaging in conversations with clients, experts, and patients alike
• Has demonstrated the ability to write compelling interview-driven scripts
• Thrives in ambiguity and can create structure

Requirements

• Experience working in healthcare, medtech, pharma, or clinical environments
• Proven ability to learn complex topics fast and explain them succinctly
• Strong writing + storytelling ability
• Experience interviewing patients and clinicians
• Meticulous communication and thinking—able to operate in highly regulated environments where precision, accuracy, and professionalism are non-negotiable
• High attention to detail
• Willingness to travel

Benefits

• 40 hr/week contract → potential full-time
• Must work PST/MST hours
• Salary is $70,000—$100,000/year, DOE