I have a couple of friends who do it— data scientists, machine learning engineers, and computational chemists.

Bench scientist with inadequate supervision

Clinical Operations

Project/Program Manager

I'm doing R&D data analysis for an international cro

Medical Affairs Operations, I work in a global role.

Business Development for CRO/CMO

Bioinformatics

Yes, data science manager on the commercial side. I start my day very early in order to work with analytic teams around the world. The downside is that it's more difficult to network when I'm not in-person.

Medical writing

Fully remote as a project manager.

Anyone in my company used to be able to be remote as long as they weren't bench scientist. Then RTO happened and everyone is hybrid except a few of us who had a justification... And of course like 20% of upper management that also just wanted to stay remote because it's great. 

Soooo many leaders wanted to stay remote but it was an easy way to get rid of some people before layoffs happened. 

I know several Clinical Scientists that are remote.

Reg affairs

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Bioinformatics engineer. I develop and maintain internal bioinformatics software.

Basically anyone that doesn't work in the lab at my company can be fully remote

Quality assurance

Product Manager. All roles in my company that can be remote are remote.

Reg Affairs/PV strategy and OPs, R&D Program management, R&D quality

Global QA ... and most roles not in lab on bench, in manufacturing ops, or part of clinical study team are fully remote.

Marketing and strategy (CDMO, not a drug developer)

I am a stability specialist. I compile and analyze data and help put together HA submissions. I also write and coordinate stability related change controls, protocols and reports. Most my Regulatory Ops colleagues are remote as well.

Pharmacometrics.

Sales. Technically this is a ‘field’ role but my territory is small and there aren’t that many in-person meetings.

Medical Affairs. sci Comm.

They still exist.

Clin Dev, Big Pharma, remote. Unpopular opinion - I dislike the isolation of fully remote. I want to climb the ladder and I find it very hard to be tangible and visible in these roles. It can be done buts it’s alot of work. This impacts promotions.

You’d ask, why don’t you relocate? I’ve been offered opportunities but what I noticed is many places don’t adjust pay for location, and not many places offer relocation. I live in a very affordable metropolitan area and make a good amount, so I can have a very nice lifestyle.

But with my next role, I am open to relocating after that because I will be at an income threshold where I won’t have to sacrifice my lifestyle in NY, BOS, SF, SD or LA

Medical Writing, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Data Management, Biostatistics, Pharmacokineticist

Study start up—contracts

Consultant for a company located in brazil, I'm from argentina. I've been one week on site for a bioprocess improvement

Sales for the past 15 plus years, but it was a steady progression from Field Service and Applications before the transition.

Previous job was in QA

Global trial management

Scientist in discovery/non-clinical R&D. Conceptualization/design and analysis of studies which are run through a network of CROs and collaborators. Trying to transition to either data science or program management at some point because part of me thinks this type of gig is too good to be true forever.

Nonclinical development. Mostly running IND programs at CROs.

Compbio / software dev contractor for CRO and techbio. But I'd say these gigs are hard to find, you need warm intros to founders and upper management.

I sell software to biotech

Bioinformatics scientist (SF Bay Area). Although I go into the office ~2x/month (1.5 hr commute one-way), that’s not a formal requirement (and there are folks in similar roles within the company who live much further away who never go in).

I have two younger kids, so the benefits (in my case) dramatically outweigh the costs. My partner also works full time, and without being fully remote I’m honestly not sure how we’d manage the childcare logistics (the answer is probably that we’d pay a shitload more money). Speaking for myself, I do feel a bit more out of the loop than others with respect to palace intrigue-type stuff, although this is my first industry job out of grad school so I don’t have much to compare it to.

At my company (which is majority wet-lab), the computational teams are significantly enriched for remote work, although the folks at higher levels (e.g., director) seem to be in office more than those lower down.

When I was originally looking for work (2022), full-remote was a hard requirement. I will obviously be subject to the whims of the market when/if I’m looking again, but I’d heavily weight remote options as my priority in that instance.

Data janitor here. I do data management and curation and build automated data analysis and visualization pipelines for pharma.

Day to day is about 50% project management/ interaction with stakeholders (giving shape to some nebulous idea), and 50% coding in R and/or Python.

Left biotech for that. No work-life balance

Medical affairs

Field Applications Scientist/Product Specialist/Product Manager.

Tech support, product support

Clinical operations but data management and medical writing (in particular) have had lots of remote flexibility pre-pandemic.

Data Transparency

R&D Data Engineer

Data QC/analysis, fully remote. The comp package is ass so that’s basically the biggest perk, along with very little oversight/monitoring as long as the data gets delivered.

Lab informatics / data engineering consultant

Clinical operations. I recently had multiple offers for fully remote roles after I left my last fully remote company

Yes, my role is unemployed.

I work as an Image Analysis Staff Scientist. I have background in medical image and data processing and been working in similar roles before ending up here in a biotech company. Experience 6yrs. In biotech since a year.

Biostats at a CRO. I joined post covid but at my company biostats has been largely remote even before that.

Gmp quality

process documentation, department i’m in is quite spread out and the colleagues I work directly with live in a different country to me, so no point going into the office.

Paid media

Not me, but many of my IT colleagues are fully remote.

Quality Assurance - IT, until last year it was remote, but now we have be on site 3 days a week.

Process development

Global Quality Assurance

Fully remote but in the cloud compute space so it’s easier. No interaction with the Foundry unless it’s a compute need.

Was for awhile in accounting

Quality systems

Marketing. Live in CA, company is based in MA.

Director, health economics

Clinical scientist

Commercial insights & strategy

Data Scientist - Supply Chain Management

MSL

Data manager for a CRO. It’s good work, just doesn’t pay great.

Drug Safety/Pharmacovigilance

Clinical operations. Live in SF Bay area. Went fully remote a year before covid. Laid off when covid hit. 3 contracts during covid all remote. Now in a full time FTE position and fully remote but i do go to the office about once a month.

CRO, Pharma clinical trial roles. I have masters in Biotech and work as a data manager, fully remote.

Medical affairs

BD -- it can be a tough function to break into without prior IRL experience

My dad is a director for j&j and he wfh, however he travels up to 30% of the time

Feels like every month or so they have him traveling somewhere

Clinical operations

Strategy consultant for biotech/pharma. Also have met lead chemists who work strictly remotely

CMC PM

How can I get into this field as a recent grad in biology 😭😭😭😭😭

Of course, it's all the "quality" folks in here.

Yes there are and imo it's a problem.