Employment Opportunities at NABP
NABP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that aims to ensure the public’s health and safety through working with its member state boards of pharmacy. The Association is an equal opportunity employer.
We offer rewarding opportunities for professionals from a variety of backgrounds, including pharmacy-focused, information technology, communications, and more. Apply to one of our current employment opportunities below, and learn more about what it’s like to work at NABP by checking out our culture, values, and employee benefits.
Compliance Analyst, Pharmacy Programs Apply
Status: Exempt
Location: Remote
Salary: $90,000 – $110,000
As the Compliance Analyst, Pharmacy Programs, you will play a critical role in the process of evaluating pharmacies for compliance with regulations and program requirements to support NABP’s mission to protect public health. You will develop, analyze, and review applicant materials for the pharmacy Accreditation and Inspection programs, including applications, submissions of other materials, eligibility determinations, and inspection/survey results. Additionally, you will provide recommendations and report adverse findings to the Compliance Manager, Pharmacy Programs and participate in NABP staff and contractor training. You may perform onsite inspections and surveys for pharmacy program applicants as well.
Job Description
Compliance Development
- Performs reviews, analyzes data, and reports findings from applicant materials, including, but not limited to applications, document submissions, policies and procedures, inspection/survey findings, eligibility determination, applicant responses, and audits.
- Performs quality control and quality assurance activities related to inspection and survey reports.
- Seeks input from Compliance Manager, Pharmacy Programs or Compliance Senior Manager regarding unusual findings or concerns.
- Responds to applicant inquiries and conducts intake calls.
- Assists with development and execution of training presentations for contractors and NABP staff.
Inspector/Surveyor
- Performs VPP inspections and Pharmacy Accreditation surveys.
- Reviews application materials and performs pre-inspection/survey reviews to prepare for inspection/survey.
- Comprehensively and concisely describes observations and gathers necessary information into inspection and survey reports.
- Completes required reports and submits no less than 5 days from the completion of the inspection or survey.
- Assists with training contractors in the field and provides feedback.
Information Improvements
- Makes improvements, with Compliance Manager, Pharmacy Programs and Compliance Senior Manager, for resolution of compliance conflicts identified during review of applicant materials and other information gathered during the pharmacy accreditation or inspection process.
- Routinely meets with the Accreditation & Inspection team to review open program and applicant questions, review compliance issues, evaluate complex business models, and to monitor and track resolutions.
Program Support
- Maintains a list of applicants and reaccreditations in process.
- Compiles data from results across pharmacy inspection and accreditation programs into reports.
- Assists Compliance Manager, Pharmacy Programs in development and/or maintenance of program manuals, interpretative guides, and other accreditation and inspection materials.
Job Requirements
- Pharmacy technician national certification or state pharmacist license is required.
- 10+ years of experience as a pharmacy technician or pharmacist is required.
- Sterile compounding experience is required.
- Proficient knowledge of rules/regulations governing the practice of pharmacy is required.
- Inspection and regulatory compliance in pharmacy or other related health care field experience is preferred.
- Experience with developing and reviewing policies and procedures and quality related programs is preferred.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify and communicate issues and solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Advanced organizational skills and ability to multitask without direction.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Word and Excel or similar office software.
- Ability to work in a team environment with both office and remote-based staff.
- Routine air and ground overnight travel is required.
- Any combination of training, education, and experience that is equivalent to the employment standards requirements listed above and that provides the required knowledge, and abilities may be deemed acceptable for this position.
Health Care Benefits
- Medical insurance (BCBS IL PPO)
- Dental insurance (MetLife)
- Vision insurance (MetLife)
- Health Reimbursement Account for medical insurance (Flexible Benefits)
- Short-term and long-term disability (MetLife)
Added Compensation Benefits
- 401(k) match and discretionary contribution (Principal Financial)
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance (MetLife)
- Annual opportunity in NABP’s incentive compensation policy for qualifying employees
Flexible Work
- 35-hour weekly hybrid schedule
- 3 days at home and 2 days at Headquarters in Mount Prospect, IL each week
Paid Time Off
Paid time off provided for vacation, personal, and sick days
Employees are eligible for benefits on the first of the following month after their start date. 401k enrollment occurs quarterly. Our benefits are subject to change annually during open enrollment.
Senior Staff Attorney Apply
Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid work model
Salary: $120,000 – $135,000
As the Senior Staff Attorney, you will be responsible for assisting the legal affairs team in drafting, negotiating, and managing Association contracts; regularly counseling and assisting clients; identifying ways to help mitigate risk within the Association; managing discovery and data preservation processes related to litigation; assisting in subpoena responses; reviewing and revising policies and procedures; performing legal research; writing memoranda, opinions, and reports; and other department responsibilities as assigned. You will also interact professionally and cooperatively with all departments of the Association, outside counsel, and occasionally Association members.
Job Description
General Counsel Services
- Counsels internal clients on various matters, including risk and liability.
- Drafts, negotiates, and reviews service, software licensing, confidentiality, and vendor agreements and related documents.
- Plans, organizes, and conducts searches pursuant to legal requests as directed.
- Handles requests for production to comport with legal obligations.
- Drafts or assists in drafting Amicus Curiae briefs as directed.
- Drafts, reviews, and regularly maintains department and other program policies and procedures.
- Creates and implements risk management strategies for Association programs as directed.
Reporting and Documentation
- Drafts internal and external communications, legal memoranda, opinions, and documents as directed.
- Documents and analyzes legal metrics as directed.
- Adheres to and assists in preparing the department budget as directed.
Job Requirements
- Graduate of an ABA-approved law school with an active, current Illinois attorney registration in good standing or Illinois House Counsel registration in good standing, or a pending application for either Illinois registration.
- Must have at least 5 years of current attorney experience working with a law firm, corporation, non-profit organization, or government agency.
- Excellent writing, research, analytical, and organizational skills are required.
- Attention to detail and ability to work independently and in a team to successfully handle multiple responsibilities.
- Must be fluent in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
- Competence in performing legal and internet research is a must.
- Association legal work, compliance, and/or a health care background are desirable but not required.
- Supervising experience is desirable but not required.
Health Care Benefits
- Medical insurance (BCBS IL PPO)
- Dental insurance (MetLife)
- Vision insurance (MetLife)
- Health Reimbursement Account for medical insurance (Flexible Benefits)
- Short-term and long-term disability (MetLife)
Added Compensation Benefits
- 401(k) match and discretionary contribution (Principal Financial)
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance (MetLife)
- Annual opportunity in NABP’s incentive compensation policy for qualifying employees
Flexible Work
- 35-hour weekly hybrid schedule
- 3 days at home and 2 days at Headquarters in Mount Prospect, IL each week
Paid Time Off
Paid time off provided for vacation, personal, and sick days
Employees are eligible for benefits on the first of the following month after their start date. 401k enrollment occurs quarterly. Our benefits are subject to change annually during open enrollment.
Head of Product, Pulse Apply
Status: Exempt
Location: Remote
Salary: $175,000 – $200,000 Depending on applicable experience
As the Head of Product, Pulse, you will be a senior executive within NABP who will lead the transition from a defined product concept to a scalable, market-ready platform. You will be responsible for product strategy, execution, and adoption from pre-launch through early commercialization and growth.
Working closely with NABP leadership, engineering, and commercial leadership, you will translate vision into roadmaps and product delivery, validate real-world use cases, and build a high-performing product function. The role requires a hands-on operator who thrives in ambiguity and can balance speed, quality, and compliance in a regulated healthcare environment.
This is a foundational leadership role that will shape Pulse by NABP’s product culture, operating model, and long-term competitive advantage.
Job Description
Product Strategy and Vision
- Refines and operationalizes Pulse’s product vision, positioning, and value proposition across customer segments.
- Owns and maintains the multi-phase roadmap from Minimum Value Product (MVP) through enterprise scale.
- Aligns product priorities with industry, commercial, and partnership requirements.
- Defines success metrics for pre-launch validation, pilot adoption, and early revenue.
Pre-Launch and MVP Execution
- Leads the transition from defined product concept to production-ready platform.
- Validates assumptions through customer discovery, pilots, and early adopters.
- Translates business and compliance requirements into actionable product specs.
- Ensures readiness for launch across usability, reliability, and security.
Cross-Functional Delivery
- Partners closely across teams, such as Engineering, Data, Legal, QA, and Operations.
- Establishes agile delivery practices and release management.
- Coordinates product readiness with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing.
- Supports enterprise onboarding, integrations, and early implementations.
Customer and Market Development
- Builds feedback loops with customers, partners, and regulators.
- Leads product involvement in key customer engagements and demos.
- Translates market insights into product/feature improvements.
- Monitors competitive and regulatory trends to guide roadmap evolution.
Team Building and Leadership
- Builds and mentors the initial product management and UX function.
- Establishes product governance, prioritization, and documentation standards.
- Creates scalable processes for discovery, delivery, and lifecycle management.
- Develops future leadership and succession within the product organization.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required. MBA or technical degree preferred.
- 10+ years in product management, including product leadership roles with direct reports.
- Previous experience launching and scaling B2B SaaS products from MVP to growth is required.
- Prior work in healthcare, life sciences, compliance, or regulated SaaS environments is desired.
- Demonstrated success in early-stage or high-growth companies.
- Strong understanding of enterprise workflows, integrations, and data platforms.
- Experience working with distributed technical and operational teams.
Health Care Benefits
- Medical insurance (BCBS IL PPO)
- Dental insurance (MetLife)
- Vision insurance (MetLife)
- Health Reimbursement Account for medical insurance (Flexible Benefits)
- Short-term and long-term disability (MetLife)
Added Compensation Benefits
- 401(k) match and discretionary contribution (Principal Financial)
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance (MetLife)
- Annual opportunity in NABP’s incentive compensation policy for qualifying employees
Flexible Work
- 35-hour weekly hybrid schedule
- 3 days at home and 2 days at Headquarters in Mount Prospect, IL each week
Paid Time Off
Paid time off provided for vacation, personal, and sick days
Employees are eligible for benefits on the first of the following month after their start date. 401k enrollment occurs quarterly. Our benefits are subject to change annually during open enrollment.
Senior Data Engineer Apply
Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid work model
Salary: $150,000 – $165,000
As the Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key role in building and scaling reliable data pipelines and data models that turn raw data into trusted, actionable insights. You will partner closely with engineering and business stakeholders to identify gaps, design scalable solutions, and ensure data quality, security, and compliance through strong governance practices. Alongside hands-on coding, you will lead team members in designing and delivering data solutions.
Job Description
General Responsibilities
- Architects, develops, and deploys cloud-based products.
- Ensures data integrity and availability, providing expert consultation on data-related inquiries.
- Analyzes data, processes, and systems to identify gaps, clarify requirements, and propose scalable solutions.
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms such as data warehousing, acquisition/ingestion, modeling, transformation, and consumption.
- Experience with databases and data movement technologies such as Databricks, AWS Redshift, Data Build Tools (DBT), and Data Vault (or equivalent).
- Proven ability to collaborate with both senior and junior technical staff, translate findings into designs, and drive implementation.
- Builds and maintains robust data transformation pipelines using Python and SQL.
- Designs and implements efficient data models and schemas to support analytics and reporting use cases.
- Partners with data engineers, architects, and analysts to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels.
- Develops and optimizes DBT models to transform raw data into trusted, actionable datasets.
- Demonstrates excellent problem solving using data and technology to drive statistical and root-cause analysis to support business insights and decision-making.
- Builds, tests, and maintains end-to-end database and pipeline architectures (reliability, monitoring, and performance).
- Ensures compliance with data governance, privacy, and security policies.
- Defines data quality strategies and incorporates robust testing into day-to-day work.
Job Requirements
- Bachelors or master’s degree and/or equivalent professional experience in information systems, computer science. 5–8 or more years of experience in data engineering.
- Extensive experience with cloud computing.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing, query optimization, and reporting.
- Strong hands-on experience with DBT, including core features (models, tests, macros, snapshots/incremental patterns, deployments), data orchestration tools like Airflow, and Data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, or equivalent.
- 1+ year of production DBT experience preferred.
- Strong experience with designing and enhancing data models, warehouses, and/or data lakes.
- Expertise in ETL/ELT concepts, orchestration, and end-to-end pipeline maintenance.
- Strong communicator and collaborator with a clear ownership mindset; able to work independently.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews and supporting career growth.
- Champion agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development.
Health Care Benefits
- Medical insurance (BCBS IL PPO)
- Dental insurance (MetLife)
- Vision insurance (MetLife)
- Health Reimbursement Account for medical insurance (Flexible Benefits)
- Short-term and long-term disability (MetLife)
Added Compensation Benefits
- 401(k) match and discretionary contribution (Principal Financial)
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance (MetLife)
- Annual opportunity in NABP’s incentive compensation policy for qualifying employees
Flexible Work
- 35-hour weekly hybrid schedule
- 3 days at home and 2 days at Headquarters in Mount Prospect, IL each week
Paid Time Off
Paid time off provided for vacation, personal, and sick days
Employees are eligible for benefits on the first of the following month after their start date. 401k enrollment occurs quarterly. Our benefits are subject to change annually during open enrollment.
Security Architect Apply
Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid work model
Salary: $165,000 – $180,000
As the Security Architect, you will be responsible for implementing the Information Security infrastructure for the Association by determining security requirements; planning, implementing, and testing security systems; and preparing security standards, policies, and procedures.
Job Description
General Responsibilities
- Plans, researches, designs, and implements security architecture for IT systems with a focus on AWS cloud environments.
- Anticipates possible security threats and identifies areas of weakness.
- Reviews current system security measures and recommends, designs, and implements enhancements.
- Plans and executes company-wide security policy and culture change towards attaining security compliances like NIST-800 and/or SOC2.
- Documents, implements, and monitors the execution of security policies, processes, and procedures as part of an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
- Conducts regular system tests and ensures continuous monitoring of environments.
- Develops project timelines for ongoing system upgrades and security initiatives.
- Establishes, tests, and evolves disaster recovery procedures.
- Promptly responds to all security incidents and potential breaches and provides thorough post-event analyses.
- Cultivates a culture of security awareness, and arranges continuing reviews of security related topics, processes, and procedures to ensure all personnel are aware of and always adhere to security policies.
- Determines security protocol by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
- Updates job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards.
Job Requirements
- Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline.
- Security certifications like CISA are preferred.
- 7 or more years in the IT architecture or information security field with progressing levels of enterprise level accountability.
- Extensive experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.
- Experience designing and implementing security solutions and security best practices for AWS environments.
- Understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and cybersecurity.
- At least 5 years of experience with these specific skills:
- Data Protection
- Container Security
- Micro-services
- Infrastructure/endpoint security
- Data Services
- Cloud Computing
- Security Architecture
- SDLC
- Application Security
- API Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Edge Device Security Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience is acceptable.
- Good working knowledge of current IT risks.
- Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce security measures.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as business acumen and a commercial outlook.
Health Care Benefits
- Medical insurance (BCBS IL PPO)
- Dental insurance (MetLife)
- Vision insurance (MetLife)
- Health Reimbursement Account for medical insurance (Flexible Benefits)
- Short-term and long-term disability (MetLife)
Added Compensation Benefits
- 401(k) match and discretionary contribution (Principal Financial)
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance (MetLife)
- Annual opportunity in NABP’s incentive compensation policy for qualifying employees
Flexible Work
- 35-hour weekly hybrid schedule
- 3 days at home and 2 days at Headquarters in Mount Prospect, IL each week
Paid Time Off
Paid time off provided for vacation, personal, and sick days
Employees are eligible for benefits on the first of the following month after their start date. 401k enrollment occurs quarterly. Our benefits are subject to change annually during open enrollment.