Summit Therapeutics
Associate Director, Scientific Publications
Palo Alto, California, United States · Director
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Even the top of this range is below the Level II threshold of $209,518, so this role stays at one lottery entry however you negotiate. That is a property of the posted band, not of you.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Natural Sciences Managers (11-9121) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Files H-1B transfers
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- The Associate Director, Scientific Publications provides strategic and operational leadership for global publication activities, ensuring the timely, compliant, and high-quality dissemination of scientific data.
- This role combines hands-on operational execution, overseeing publication processes, vendor management, and financial oversight.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key liaison across Finance, Regulatory, Legal, and external partners.
- Drive continuous improvement through data insights, automation, and AI-enabled tools.
- Manage execution timelines, quality, and submission processes using publication systems (e.g., Datavision).
- Support and/or contribute to development of scientific content (abstracts, posters, manuscripts, encore publications).
- Develop and track KPIs, dashboards, and reports for publication performance and financial metrics.
- Lead operational support for scientific congresses, including calendar management, poster printing/shipping, and QR code generation.
- Congress & Scientific Support
- Manage budgets, forecasting, invoice reconciliation, and financial tracking for publication activities.
- Deliver training and onboarding for internal teams and vendors on systems and processes.
Requirements
- All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit's Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@smmttx.com to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Nice to have
- Summit's core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people.
- Summit's team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit's clinical studies in the field of oncology.
- Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
- Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
- Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
- Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
- Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
- Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Skills
- BA/BS required; advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, MS) preferred.
- 5+ years in scientific publications, medical affairs, or clinical development within pharma/biotech.
- Previous experience in oncology, immunotherapy, or R&D environments.
- Proven experience in publication management, vendor oversight, and budget management.
- Advanced project management, problem-solving, and organizational abilities.
- This is the pay for this position
- Pay Transparency
- $174,000 - $204,000 USD
- This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
- The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
- Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
- Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment.
Compensation
- $174,000 - $204,000 USD
- Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.
- The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Benefits
- Define and execute global publication operations strategy aligned with medical and scientific objectives.
- Contribute to publication planning across disease areas in partnership with Medical Affairs, HEOR, Clinical, and Commercial teams.
- Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and
Company info
- Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
This listing is sourced directly from Summit Therapeutics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.