Glaukos – MSL / Field Medical Advisor
Join a dynamic and mission-driven Global Medical Affairs team at Glaukos, where Medical Science Liaisons / Field Medical Advisors play a pivotal role in advancing scientific exchange, shaping clinical understanding, and elevating patient care. As a field-based medical and scientific expert, the MSL will engage with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) across the Southeast region—building meaningful relationships, driving high-quality scientific discussions, and serving as a trusted resource in eye disease education, emerging therapies, data science, and product knowledge.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, research-focused environment and is energized by connecting science, practice, and innovation within the eye-care community.
What You’ll Do
- Build and expand strategic, compliant scientific relationships with optometrists, ophthalmologists, and other KOLs across the region.
- Serve as a field-based expert, delivering relevant medical and scientific insights to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Respond to medical inquiries with clear, evidence-based information supporting the appropriate use of Glaukos products, including compliant responses to unsolicited off-label questions.
- Gather and communicate actionable clinical insights that inform strategy and enhance patient outcomes.
- Create strong professional networks with high-impact decision-makers and thought leaders in eye care.
- Represent Medical Affairs at local, regional, and national conferences—participating in scientific sessions and engaging HCPs at medical booths.
- Support clinical evidence generation through collaboration on investigator-initiated research proposals.
- Maintain deep expertise in relevant disease states, emerging therapeutic options, and the evolving competitive landscape.
- Deliver scientific and practice education to eye-care centers while collaborating cross-functionally with clinical operations, market access, sales, and marketing.
- Work closely with optometric and ophthalmic medical societies across the region.
- Optimize field medical processes, insight gathering, and training initiatives.
- Manage territory planning, budgets, KOL mapping, and CRM documentation with accuracy and timeliness.
- Travel up to 70% (field visits, conferences, and headquarters meetings).
What You’ll Bring
- Doctorate degree (OD, PharmD, PhD, MD, DO).
- 8+ years of combined relevant industry/clinical experience.
- 1-1.5+ years of prior MSL/medical affairs experience in eye care preferred.
- Exceptional emotional intelligence, communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong scientific acumen paired with the ability to translate complex data into clear, meaningful insights.
- High level of organization and proactive planning in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to operate with professionalism and compliance even in evolving or less-defined processes.
- Strong collaboration, influence, and independent decision-making abilities.
- Analytical, adaptable, and comfortable navigating changing priorities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM tools.
- Residency within commuting distance to a major airport in the Southeast region.
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Founded in 1998, Glaukos Corporation is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases.
Our mission at Glaukos is to truly transform vision by pioneering novel, dropless therapies that can meaningfully advance the standard of care and improve the lives of patients suffering from chronic, sight-threatening eye diseases.
Innovation is at the core of everything we do, and we are resolute in our commitment to challenge conventional thinking with new treatment alternatives that are supported by real science, robust clinical evidence, and an unrelenting focus on patients.
Our constant pursuit of game-changing technologies that disrupt legacy treatment paradigms is encapsulated in the Glaukos mantra “We’ll Go First,” which articulates our willingness to take chances, our determination to forge new ground, and our commitment to continuous improvement in all that we do.
Our company completed an initial public offering in June of 2015, and our shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GKOS”. Our global headquarters is in Aliso Viejo, California with additional locations in San Clemente, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.
Glaukos Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, including successfully passing a drug screen, based on the position and local regulations.
