About Avalyn
Avalyn aims to transform the treatment paradigm for pulmonary fibrosis and other serious, rare respiratory diseases. The company is advancing optimized inhaled formulations of established antifibrotic medicines designed to deliver drug directly to the lungs, enhance local efficacy, and reduce systemic side effects. Avalyn’s AP01 program is an optimized inhaled formulation of pirfenidone currently being evaluated in MIST, a global Phase 2b clinical trial in patients with progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF). AP01 has demonstrated encouraging safety and clinical activity across Phase 1b and an ongoing, multi-year open-label extension trial, with long-term data supporting the potential to preserve lung function while improving tolerability relative to historical oral pirfenidone. Avalyn’s AP02 program is an optimized inhaled formulation of nintedanib currently being evaluated in AURA-IPF, a global Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Avalyn is also advancing AP03, an inhaled fixed-dose combination of pirfenidone and nintedanib, designed to deliver multiple antifibrotic mechanisms through a single lung-targeted platform. By leveraging its proprietary drug-device approach and deep expertise in rare respiratory disease development, Avalyn aims to establish a new standard of care in pulmonary fibrosis through inhaled, lung-targeted therapies. For more information, please visit avalynpharma.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.
Position Overview
The Manager/Senior Manager, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications will provide hands-on execution across a broad range of investor relations and external communications initiatives. This is a writing- and production-intensive role that is ideal for a communications professional who thrives on delivering high-quality work across multiple workstreams. This individual is highly organized and detail-oriented, possesses exceptional writing and editing skills, and has a solid understanding of the biotech development landscape. We are seeking an individual who is eager to grow professionally while making a meaningful impact during an important stage of the company’s development. This role reports to the Head of IR & Corporate Communications.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Narrative & Messaging
- Partner with the Head of IR & Corporate Communications to develop and maintain the company’s core messaging framework, ensuring consistency across external materials and internal stakeholders
- Draft and adapt key messages for investors, media, patients, partners, patients, and other external stakeholders
- Assist in preparing messaging for pipeline milestones and clinical updates, including data readouts and regulatory updates
- Coordinate with external communications and investor relations agencies to ensure alignment, timely execution, and consistent messaging
External Communications
- Assist in drafting press releases across all corporate announcement types—clinical data, regulatory updates, milestones, partnerships, and executive news—for Senior Director and legal review
- Support media relations efforts including coordinating journalist inquiries, preparing background materials, and maintaining media contact lists
- Help prepare executive spokespeople for media engagements, including compiling briefing documents and Q&A materials
- Support communications surrounding clinical data readouts and medical conference presentations, coordinating logistics and drafting materials in partnership with Clinical, Competitive Intelligence, and Medical Affairs teams
- Maintain a library of clinical data communications precedents, peer company disclosure benchmarks, and key message archives
Social Media & Digital Communications
- Execute the company’s day-to-day social media presence across LinkedIn and other relevant platforms, including drafting posts, maintaining the content calendar, and scheduling content
- Coordinate content development across functions (R&D, Patient Advocacy, Medical Affairs, and HR) and draft social content highlighting corporate milestones, clinical progress, conference activity, and company culture, ensuring appropriate reviews and approvals
- Support brand content efforts in partnership with HR, including team spotlights, hiring announcements, and culture-forward posts
- Help develop compliant scientific social content in coordination with Medical Affairs, including conference coverage, publication announcements, and disease awareness moments
- Support rollout and maintenance of company-wide social media guidelines and employee advocacy toolkits
- Monitor social media channels for relevant activity, competitive posts, and emerging conversations; prepare periodic reports for the Senior Director and leadership
- Maintain the accuracy and timeliness of content across the corporate website—including the pipeline, science, leadership, careers, and newsroom pages—by coordinating updates with the web development vendor
Investor Relations
- Coordinate logistics and prepare materials for key investor relations activities, including earnings reporting, investor days, healthcare conferences, and non-deal roadshows
- Draft investor-facing written materials, including press releases, and Q&A materials
- Manage the Investor Relations section of the corporate website, ensuring thetimely posting of required filings, press releases, presentations, and event information
- Coordinate investor inquiries and maintain investor contact databases, targeting lists, and other IR records
Qualifications
Required
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Life Sciences, Marketing, or related field is required; Advanced degree (MS, PhD, PharmD or equivalent) is a plus. Level commensurate with education and experience.
- A minimum of 4–8 years of experience in biotech/biopharma corporate communications, science communications, or healthcare public relations; agency and/or in-house experience welcome
- Exceptional writing and editing skills across a range of formats, including press releases, social media content, briefing documents, executive messaging, website copy, and presentations
- Hands-on experience executing corporate social media programs, including content drafting, calendar management, and cross-functional content coordination
- Working knowledge of the clinical development process and familiarity with how pipeline milestones and data readouts drive communications activity
- Experience supporting communications around clinical data disclosures or medical conferences (e.g., ATS, AAD, EADV, ASH, ASCO, ESMO, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with Reg FD principles and social media disclosure considerations in a public company context
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, track and meet deadlines, and proactively identify and resolve issues
- Collaborative working style; comfortable operating in a matrixed environment and taking direction while also working independently on execution
Preferred
- Experience supporting corporate communications and/or investor relations at a publicly traded clinical-stage biotechnology company
- Familiarity with social media management, scheduling, and analytics platforms (e.g., Sprout Social, Hootsuite, or similar)
- Project management experience with the ability to coordinate cross-functional workflows and manage competing deadlines
- Experience supporting investor relations activities, including investor conferences, earnings communications, investor presentations, analyst engagement, or sell-side coverage monitoring
- Experience working within legal and medical/regulatory review processes for external communications content