Head of Clinical Development

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $108.9k - $171.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Sword Health

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Sword Health is a digital health company that combines artificial intelligence with clinical expertise to provide world-class care for muscle, joint, and pelvic health conditions. By offering digital physical therapy and AI-driven care, Sword helps individuals recover from physical ailments from the comfort of their own home, avoiding surgeries and reducing the need for medications. The company provides employers, health plans, and individuals with personalized treatment plans that are cost-effective and have proven outcomes in pain reduction and improved productivity. Sword Health is dedicated to expanding access to high-quality care and ensuring health equity across global communities.

📋 Description

• Drive clinical outcomes in Pulse, Sword's AI cardiometabolic care solution spanning hypertension, pre-diabetes, and GLP-1 support • Work strategically and tactically with Product, Go-to-Market, Clinical Operations, and Clinical Affairs & Research • Report directly to the General Manager and work closely with the Chief Medical Officer and SVP for Clinical & Regulatory Affairs • Ensure clinical requirements are accurately reflected in product features, AI behavior, operational workflows, member experiences, and external communications • Lead clinical program architecture and external clinical credibility and thought leadership for go-to-market • Provide clinical input into product development • Govern the clinical quality of Pulse's AI-driven three-way chat experience • Establish clinical quality standards for Clinical Operations • Set clinical validation standards for new features, workflows, interventions, and AI-supported experiences before and after launch • Bring clinical expertise to feature assessment and calibrate clinical rigor to feature risk • Provide clinical expertise in scoping and refining PRDs • Review and interpret member and clinician feedback and connect findings to roadmap and program decisions • Monitor and interpret clinical outcomes and direct program, protocol, product, workflow, or training changes • Surface clinical constraints early in development • Help define the intended clinical role, therapeutic boundaries, and prohibited behaviors of Pulse's AI-supported experiences • Work with Product and AI on prompting and harness layers, including guidelines, guardrails, knowledge bases, and escalations • Co-develop clinical evaluation rubrics, acceptance criteria, release thresholds, and annotation requirements • Define clinical content for annotator training, including example annotations • Interpret annotator feedback and help determine whether training, evaluation criteria, prompts, guardrails, or product behavior should change • Contribute to post-launch clinical monitoring and determine appropriate actions • Represent Pulse's clinical perspective on internal AI monitoring and governance boards

🎯 Requirements

• Licensed clinician (MD, DO, NP, RD, or PharmD) with 8+ years of clinical experience, including at least 3 years in a clinical leadership role within digital health, health-tech, or value-based care • Deep expertise in cardiometabolic conditions: hypertension, pre-diabetes and diabetes, obesity, and GLP-1 therapeutics • Experience owning a clinical outcomes framework, including defining metrics, evidence standards, and how outcomes translate into commercial value • Track record of being the external clinical voice for a product, including presenting to CMOs, health plan medical directors, and clinical audiences at conferences and in due-diligence processes • Experience partnering directly with product and engineering teams to translate clinical requirements into features, workflows, and AI behavior • Comfort defining clinical guardrails and evaluation criteria for AI-supported or AI-driven care experiences • Strong writing and narrative skills, including authoring whitepapers, talk tracks, and clinical claims language • Comfort with ambiguity and building a function's clinical infrastructure from a limited starting point • Every hire must demonstrate at least Level 1 AI proficiency (Explorer), using AI daily to boost personal productivity • Applicants must have a legal right to work in the United States; immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance • Life and AD&D Insurance • Financial advisory services • Supplemental Insurance Benefits (Accident, Hospital and Critical Illness) • Health Savings Account • Equity shares • Discretionary PTO plan • Parental leave • 401(k) • Flexible working hours • Remote-first company • Paid company holidays • Free digital therapist for you and your family