Head of Clinical Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead clinical outcomes for Pulse, Sword's AI-driven cardiometabolic care solution covering hypertension, pre-diabetes, and GLP-1 support.

• Collaborate with Product, Go-to-Market, Clinical Operations, Clinical Affairs & Research, the General Manager, Chief Medical Officer, and SVP for Clinical & Regulatory Affairs.

• Ensure that clinical requirements are accurately represented in product features, AI behavior, operational workflows, member experiences, and external communications.

• Establish clinical validation standards for new features, workflows, interventions, and AI-assisted experiences both pre- and post-launch.

• Provide clinical expertise in evaluating features and refining PRD scopes.

• Analyze and interpret feedback from members and clinicians, linking insights to roadmap and program decisions.

• Monitor and assess clinical outcomes, guiding changes in programs, protocols, products, workflows, or training as needed.

• Define the intended clinical role, therapeutic boundaries, and prohibited actions for AI-supported experiences.

• Collaborate with Product and AI to develop prompting guidelines, guardrails, knowledge bases, and escalation processes.

• Jointly create clinical evaluation rubrics, acceptance criteria, release thresholds, and annotation requirements.

• Specify clinical content for annotator training and interpret feedback from annotators.

• Contribute to post-launch clinical monitoring and determine necessary actions.

• Represent Pulse's clinical viewpoint on internal AI monitoring and governance boards.

• Act as an external clinical voice through whitepapers, presentations, clinical claims language, conferences, and due-diligence processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Licensed clinician (MD, DO, NP, RD, or PharmD).

• Minimum of 8 years of clinical experience.

• At least 3 years in a clinical leadership position within digital health, health-tech, or value-based care.

• Extensive knowledge in hypertension, pre-diabetes and diabetes, obesity, and GLP-1 therapeutics.

• Proven experience in managing a clinical outcomes framework, including defining metrics, evidence standards, and translating outcomes into commercial value.

• Demonstrated history of serving as the external clinical representative for a product.

• Experience presenting to CMOs, health plan medical directors, and clinical audiences at conferences and during due-diligence processes.

• Proven ability to work directly with product and engineering teams to translate clinical requirements into features, workflows, and AI behavior.

• Comfortable defining clinical guardrails and evaluation criteria for AI-supported or AI-driven care experiences.

• Strong writing and narrative abilities.

• Capable of authoring whitepapers, presentations, and clinical claims language.

• Comfortable with uncertainty and building a clinical infrastructure from a limited starting point.

• Demonstrate at least Level 1 AI proficiency.

🏝️ Benefits

• Additional benefits beyond total compensation.

• Country-specific benefits outlined separately.

• Variable compensation, bonuses, or sales incentives may be applicable.

• Private company stock options may be available.