Sr. Medical Editor (Bilingual)

Fingerpaint Marketing

Cedar Knolls, NJ

Expired: over a month ago Applications are no longer accepted.

Full-Time

Job Description

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. Independent by design and built on a foundation of empathy, Fingerpaint celebrates what you bring as both a professional and an individual. With talent across the United States and Europe launching more than 200 brands, we are committed to creating and executing meaningful experiences. In 2021, Fingerpaint was named to Ad Age’s Best Places to Work and was awarded Agency of the Year by Med Ad News. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Objectives of this role:

We’re on the hunt for a senior bilingual editor who isn’t a settler. If you are bilingual in English and Spanish, are dedicated to error-free jobs that are grammatically correct, and follow relevant client/style guidelines, we want to hear from you.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Edits/proofreads advertising, educational, training, and consumer manuscripts, layouts, and digital assignments in both English and SpanishWe are looking for a bilingual (Spanish/English proofreader with strong editorial skills)
Translates and transcreates English copy into Spanish, ensuring neutral Spanish across Spanish-speaking target populations
Ensures in-house Spanish translations and transcreations are accurate and ready for Certificate of Translations (COTs)
Serves as training supervisor and model brand editing responsibilities for interns and associate medical editors under guidance of associate editorial director/editorial director/VP, editorial director
Reads for correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling; language and style consistency; accuracy; sense/clarity; required copy
Ensures relevant standards (eg, client/brand, AMA, FDA) are met
Knowledgeable of and remains current on FDA guidelines
Creates and maintains editorial style guides for each assigned brand
Assigned as editor to 1 to 2 “heavy” brands and 1 to 2 “light” brands (more if capable)
Creates and maintains editorial style guides for each assigned brand
Stays current with standards for co-editors’ accounts and is able to cover other brands when needed

Job Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree
Excellent English and Spanish writing proficiency and knowledge of grammatical rules in both languages
Ability to translate from English to Spanish and vice versa
A minimum of 3 years of previous pharmaceutical editorial experience
Ability to ensure documents conform to accepted written language rules
Knowledge of AMA Manual of Style 
Knowledge of FDA guidelines is a plus

Preferred Qualifications: