Product Marketing Specialist
Company: United States Pharmacopeia
Location: Rockville
Posted on: January 29, 2026
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Job Description:
Description Who is USP? The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with
the worlds leading health and science experts to develop rigorous
quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food
ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is
driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global
collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion
for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more
than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to
strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide. At
USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that
attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop
trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational
culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional
development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships,
standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad
participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more
impactful outcomes for global health. USP is proud to be an equal
employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring
fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best
scientific mindsregardless of backgroundto contribute to advancing
public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable
accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies
that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Brief
Job Overview USP is seeking a Product Marketing Specialist Digital
Standards to support and enhance marketing programs for our Digital
Standards and Emerging Standards product portfolio. This role
blends product marketing, digital campaign execution, and
leadgeneration strategy. The ideal candidate is handson,
datadriven, and comfortable owning multichannel marketing
initiatives that drive awareness, engagement, and conversion. This
role is critical in shaping how industry perceives USPs Digital
Standards portfolio. You will translate complex technical and
regulatory innovations into compelling narratives that inspire
early adopters and drive collaboration across the pharmaceutical
ecosystem. As pharmaceutical development and manufacturing
continues its digitalization journey, USP is seeking to take an
active, collaborative role in helping advance digitalization of
analytical development and quality control workflows through the
delivery of chemical reference and analytical method standards
directly into digital environments. This position will help raise
awareness, leading to collaborations that shape a new paradigm of
quality standards. You will help tell the story of how
pharmaceutical standards are evolving for digital workflows. How
will YOU create impact here at USP? As part of our mission to
advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play
a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines
through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes
scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based
decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on
strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.
Additionally, USPs People and Culture division, in partnership with
the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development
to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing,
inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management
practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and
results-driven work environments. The Product Marketing Specialist
Digital Standards, has the following responsibilities: Draft,
execute, and optimize compelling content for conferences, sales
enablement, email campaigns, newsletters, and organic social media
in alignment with product messaging and campaign goals. Develop,
execute, and optimize digital marketing campaigns that support
product awareness, positioning, lead acquisition, and goals.
Manage, maintain, and publish scheduled marketing content across
channels. Coordinate content reviews, approvals, and asset delivery
across internal teams and stakeholders. Support campaign setup and
execution within marketing automation platforms (e.g., Pardot,
Marketo). Assist with vendor coordination, including invoicing and
communicating timelines or deliverables as needed. Monitor campaign
performance using KPIs, dashboards, and analytics tools; provide
insights and recommendations for continuous improvement. Develop
messaging frameworks explaining Digital Standards to non-experts.
Collaborate with product/program leads to define value propositions
targeted at early adopters. Support creation of thought-leadership
assets (whitepapers, explainer videos, infographics). Partner with
industry relations / BD teams to align campaigns with collaboration
opportunities. Contribute to conference strategy: booth messaging,
speaker abstracts, promotional assets. Support personal development
and market segmentation for new product categories. Success will be
measured by growth in awareness for Digital and Emerging Standards
based on campaign performance and the number of qualified
collaboration leads generated. This role is hybrid, with an
expected travel commitment of up to 10% for conference support. Who
is USP Looking For? The successful candidate will have a
demonstrated understanding of our mission, commitment to excellence
through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices, ability to
quickly build credibility with stakeholders, along with the
following competencies and experience: Bachelors degree in
marketing, communications, or related field. 2 years of experience
in digital or product marketing, communications, or a related
field. Experience developing content for scientific or
regulated-industry audiences. Comfort with B2B funnel metrics,
attribution models, and CRM/marketing automation integrations
(e.g., Salesforce Pardot/Marketo). Ability to translate complex
digital/technology topics into compelling marketing narratives.
Experience with social media scheduling tools (e.g., Hootsuite,
Buffer). Familiarity with marketing automation platforms (e.g.,
Pardot, Marketo). Experience with native social platform insights.
Experience in pharmaceutical, scientific, healthcare, nonprofit, or
regulated industries Additional Desired Preferences Experience with
genAI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, etc for workflow
improvements and automation. Demonstrable commitment to public
health/patient safety/consumer protection. Comfortability with
ambiguity. Demonstrated ability to problem solve and get things
done. Supervisory Responsibilities None, this is an individual
contributor role. Benefits USP provides the benefits to protect
yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time
off and comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you
can have peace of mind that your personal and financial well-being
is protected. Compensation Base Salary Range: USD $85,200.00
$108,400.00 annually. Target Annual Bonus: % Varies based on level
of role. Individual compensation packages are based on various
factors unique to each candidates skill set, experience,
qualifications, equity, and other job-related reasons. Note: USP
does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment
agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other
agencies except under specific written agreement with USP. Equal
Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of
their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further
information, please review the Know Your Rights
(https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
Job Category Sales & Marketing Job Type Full-Time
Keywords: United States Pharmacopeia, Wilmington , Product Marketing Specialist, PR / Public Relations , Rockville, Delaware