When you're developing breakthrough therapies or life-saving medical devices, every regulatory, quality, and safety hire matters. You need a recruiting partner who understands that the talent you bring on board today could be the difference between regulatory approval and delay, between successful launch and missed opportunity, between hope and disappointment for patients waiting for better treatments.
At JBK Search, we don't just find you employees, we help you build the RA/QA/PV teams that bring therapies to patients.
Our founder's children live with Cystic Fibrosis and Type 1 Diabetes. When we help you hire exceptional regulatory, quality, or pharmacovigilance talent, we're not just filling positions - we're connecting you with people who could help develop treatments for patients like Katelin and Jake. This personal stake means we never settle for "good enough."
Since 1999, we've worked exclusively in biotech, biopharma, and medical devices - with specialized expertise in Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, and Pharmacovigilance. We understand your regulatory pathways, compliance requirements, and the unique challenges of bringing life-saving innovations to market.
As a member of the Pinnacle Society (top 80 recruiters nationwide), we've successfully placed critical RA/QA/PV talent at companies ranging from innovative startups to Fortune 500 pharmaceutical leaders.
Every search receives personal oversight from our founder and CEO. You're not working with junior recruiters - you're partnering with 26 years of specialized expertise from day one.
For mission-critical RA/QA/PV leadership roles you can't afford to get wrong
We work exclusively on a retained basis, ensuring you receive our complete focus and commitment. Perfect for:
Your search gets our undivided attention. No competing with other recruiters. No race to submit the first available candidate. Just strategic partnership focused on finding the RIGHT leader who will drive your regulatory strategy, ensure compliance, and protect patient safety.
We partner with you from search strategy through successful onboarding, ensuring not just technical competence but cultural fit and long-term success.
For project-based expertise and flexible strategic leadership
Not every company needs full-time RA/QA/PV executives - but every company pursuing regulatory approval or maintaining compliance needs expertise. Our fractional and contract placements provide senior-level strategic guidance when you need it. Perfect for:
Access VP-level RA/QA/PV expertise without long-term commitments. Many of our fractional placements convert to permanent hires once companies are ready to build full-time teams.
We treat every candidate with respect and professionalism, even those not selected. This protects your employer brand and ensures candidates speak positively about your company in the tight-knit life sciences community. Reputation matters - we protect yours.
The most qualified RA/QA/PV leaders aren't actively job searching. Through strategic outreach and our extensive 26-year network, we identify and engage top performers who are excelling in their current roles but open to the right opportunity.
We help candidates understand not just what the role is, but why it matters. By connecting their regulatory, quality, or safety work to patient outcomes and breakthrough potential, we attract talent that's truly committed to your mission.
Our specialized focus in RA/QA/PV provides insider knowledge of compensation benchmarks, talent availability, and competitive intelligence that helps you make informed hiring decisions.
Every candidate undergoes comprehensive evaluation of technical competence (regulatory pathways, quality systems, PV operations), leadership capability, cultural fit, and mission alignment before we present them to you. You see only candidates who meet your criteria.
Building your first regulatory, quality, or safety teams
Scaling RA/QA/PV departments as your pipeline grows
Replacing senior leaders or expanding capabilities
Regulatory and quality leadership for device innovation
Regulatory and quality expertise for contract services
Whether you're preparing for FDA submissions, building quality systems, establishing pharmacovigilance programs, or scaling your regulatory strategy, we help you hire the critical leaders you can't afford to get wrong.
"JBK Search didn't just find us a VP of Regulatory Affairs - they found us a leader who understood our mission and shared our urgency. The placement has been transformational for our FDA strategy."
"Working with Brenda feels different. You can tell this work is personal for her, and that passion translates into finding candidates who are genuinely committed to advancing patient care."
"In 25 years of hiring in biotech, I've never worked with a recruiter who understood both the technical requirements and the cultural fit as well as JBK Search."
"Getting a clearance in the U.S. Army was easier than getting past Brenda's reference check. If she vetted me that thoroughly as a candidate, I know she'll do the same when I join the company and hire her to recruit for my department."
"Brenda is an extremely professional life sciences recruiter who is very knowledgeable about the industry. I found her to be honest and forthright in her communications and committed to meeting the needs of both her clients and candidates. I will gladly work with Brenda again in the future as both a client and candidate."
"Brenda did an excellent job representing me to her client. She was very thorough with providing details and kept me well informed at all times during the process. Her service was geared towards meeting the exacting needs of everyone involved."
"I have had the opportunity to work with Ms. Brenda Patterson in filling engineering and scientist positions for my organization. Over the past year she and her staff offered excellent support and identified a number of very skilled candidates for our job openings. Ms. Patterson went to great lengths to understand our needs and search for only candidates meeting all the prescribed criteria. She did an excellent job prescreening and ultimately referring them to my organization for review. She did so well, I introduced her to other department leaders and they also hired from her."
Right talent. Right company. Real breakthroughs.
No Rest - Because breakthrough therapies can't wait.