Head of Emerging & Digital Therapeutics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and sustain the enterprise roadmap for innovative therapeutic strategies, which includes novel pharmacotherapies, neuromodulation techniques, digital therapeutics, AI-driven clinical tools, technology-enabled care models, and other pioneering interventions.

• Assess, propose, and facilitate governance for new therapeutic interventions based on evidence strength, safety profile, regulatory criteria, clinical suitability, operational viability, equity, and patient needs.

• Direct clinical integration planning for new therapeutic modalities in collaboration with technology, data, clinical operations, quality, psychiatry, research, learning and development, and medical leadership teams.

• Collaborate with the growth team to analyze emerging therapeutics and their clinical and operational scalability within LifeStance's growth and clinical strategy.

• Incorporate new therapeutic capabilities into current workflows and care models with enterprise teams.

• Design clinical protocols, workflows, provider enablement resources, adoption support, and learning and development recommendations.

• Keep track of the regulatory, clinical, scientific, and market landscape and convey implications for operations, governance, implementation planning, and enterprise strategy.

• Set governance criteria that address clinical risk, patient safety, privacy, compliance, ethics, evidence strength, training, workflow impact, and operational readiness.

• Act as a subject matter expert and strategic consultant on emerging therapeutic trends, vendor and partner capabilities, clinical innovation, and responsible behavioral health treatment models.

• Collaborate on data gathering, outcomes measurement, safety monitoring, and implementation frameworks.

• Support AI tools, EHR optimization, clinical data, and other innovation enablers to enhance care delivery, quality, provider efficiency, and patient outcomes.

• Promote clinical research, evidence generation, and implementation partnerships with external innovators.

• Cultivate internal clinical knowledge through education, training, change management, implementation support, and provider adoption resources.

• Represent LifeStance as a thought leader in the field of emerging therapeutic innovation.

• Independently manage the evaluation, prioritization, and implementation planning for new therapeutic opportunities.

• Make daily decisions concerning evidence review, pilot design, vendor or partner evaluation input, workflow recommendations, governance criteria, and outcome measurement.

• Lead matrixed, cross-functional implementation teams and provide clinical guidance to project teams, vendors, and operational partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree, doctoral degree, medical degree, or equivalent experience in behavioral health, healthcare, clinical innovation, digital health, public health, health administration, or a related discipline.

• Over 7 years of leadership experience in behavioral healthcare, healthcare innovation, digital health, product-enabled care delivery, or similar healthcare environments.

• Proven experience with digital therapeutics, including familiarity with FDA-cleared PDTs and evidence-based digital health interventions.

• Experience in evaluating or implementing technology-enabled clinical programs or innovative care delivery models.

• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through to implementation and measurement.

• Strong grasp of evidence-based care, clinical treatment, patient safety, privacy, compliance, and operational implementation factors.

• Exceptional written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills, including the capacity to translate clinical concepts for operational and technical audiences.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other cultural aspects.

• Physical capability to sit, stand, bend, talk, hear, walk, and lift or move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

• Experience with digital therapeutics, AI-driven healthcare solutions, virtual care platforms, remote monitoring, or behavioral health technology.

• Background in large multi-site, multi-state, or enterprise healthcare organizations.

• Experience in research, publication, outcomes evaluation, or quality improvement.

• Familiarity with vendor evaluation, implementation governance, or clinical technology adoption.

• Published research in AI, digital health, or computational psychiatry.

• Experience with machine learning platforms, natural language processing in clinical settings, or clinical decision support systems.

• Background in or strong familiarity with neuromodulation or interventional psychiatry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• AD&D insurance

• Short- and long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• 401k retirement savings with employer match

• Paid parental leave

• Paid time off

• Holiday pay

• Employee Assistance Program

• Competitive bonus plan

• Equity potential

• Reasonable accommodations for disabilities