[Hiring] Associate Veterinary Officer, Pharmacy @Instinct Science

Role Description

The Associate Veterinary Officer, Pharmacy, plays a critical role in ensuring the clinical accuracy, quality, and consistency of drug-related content across Instinct’s Plumb’s Veterinary Drugs platform. This role serves as an internal medical reviewer for a wide range of pharmacology content—including drug monographs, handouts, and interaction tools—helping ensure all materials meet the highest standards of clinical integrity and are delivered on schedule.

Partnering closely with veterinary specialists, pharmacy experts, and cross-functional content teams, the Associate Veterinary Officer helps resolve complex medical questions, supports content development workflows, and contributes to improving production efficiency. By combining strong clinical expertise with attention to detail and operational discipline, this role plays a central part in delivering trusted, high-quality drug information that supports veterinary professionals in daily patient care.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the internal medical reviewer for drug-related content, including new and updated monographs, drug handouts, and interaction tools, ensuring clinical accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
• Review and validate drug-related content against current scientific literature, applying sound clinical judgment and established editorial standards.
• Conduct literature searches and synthesize evidence to support content decisions and resolve medical queries.
• Collaborate with veterinary specialists, pharmacy officers, and external consultants to address complex clinical questions and discrepancies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Standards of Care and Clinician’s Brief, to align drug-related content across platforms.
• Support the timely delivery of content initiatives by managing priorities aligned with the content roadmap and production schedules.
• Maintain ownership of assigned projects, managing multiple workstreams independently in a deadline-driven environment.
• Contribute to content quality assurance efforts by identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement across content types.
• Assist in improving editorial workflows by identifying inefficiencies and recommending scalable process enhancements.
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, providing clear updates, feedback, and solutions in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• DVM degree with a minimum of 5 years of clinical experience
• Interest in drug-related content
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google products
• Strong time-management skills
• Proficiency in conducting literature searches
• Demonstrated proactivity regarding projects and ongoing work
• Excellent people skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment

Requirements

• Advanced specialty (DABVP, DACVIM, DACVCP)
• Teaching experience

Benefits

• Supportive and caring work environment
• Transparent, open, honest, and empathic culture
• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401K with match
• Owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays
• Generous stipend for personal development
• All-expense-paid time throughout the year, including an annual retreat
• Compensation range: $110,000 - $140,000, determined by skills, qualifications, and experience

Company Description

Instinct Science is at the forefront of veterinary innovation, comprised of world-class tools that have served our industry for decades. Our culture is guided by our U.C.A.R.E. values:

• Urgency: We move with speed because our mission is too important to wait.
• Customer First: We put our customers first and obsess over helping them solve their challenges.
• Act with Grace, Not Teeth: We treat people with kindness, humor, humility, and assume good intent.
• Right Things, Right Reasons: We take ownership of all tasks, big and small.
• Excellence is in our DNA: We hold ourselves and each other to high standards.