Clinical Innovation Lead

Samsung Research America

• $216K — $324K *
Healthcare
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MD with experience in technical innovation and data science
  • 14+ years in clinical practice and digital health
  • 3+ years in patient care focusing on lifestyle and preventative medicine
  • Experience developing healthcare or digital health products
  • Strong understanding of human physiology across various health conditions
  • Advisory experience with digital health startups
  • Cross-functional leadership skills across Product, Engineering, and Clinical teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Provide clinical insights for ongoing projects and new initiatives
  • Generate new opportunities through novel product proposals
  • Support design and requirements of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
  • Inform study designs for research including protocol development and IRB approval
  • Support evidence generation to demonstrate product performance
  • Engage with startups and industry bodies for potential technologies
  • Develop and communicate digital health research strategy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive compensation package including annual bonus eligibility
  • Generous benefits to support work-life balance
  • Opportunities for industry-academia collaboration
  • Participation in public forums to promote digital health research
  • Cross-disciplinary engagement with various industry professionals
Full Job Description
Position Summary:

The Clinical Innovation Lead will enrich the digital health R&D roadmap with clinical insight, spanning from early research to late development. This candidate is a practicing physician who will bring a skillset of clinical, technical, product, interpersonal, and translational expertise. Initially as an individual contributor, this individual will be matrixed on core teams for individual projects and products.

Position Responsibilities:

Clinical Insights: Provide clinical insights and guidance for ongoing projects and new initiatives. Guided by principles of minimizing harm, maximizing health benefit, and increasing adoption of Samsung Health products
  • De novo projects: New opportunity generation, including writing proposals for novel product concepts according to technical performance, clinical utility, and commercial value. Work closely with biosensors and algorithms team as required to map out use cases and performance requirements.
  • SaMD/Product Dev: Support SaMD feature design, product requirements & use case-specific product claims and portfolio prioritization. Specific support includes developing recommendations for appropriate clinical/user experience measures within the product requirements to minimize harm and maximize health benefit to users.
  • Study design: Inform study design for research studies (including as-needed, protocol development, IRB approval, medical monitor), including Sponsored Research, algorithms, and biosensor studies. Ensure standardization against appropriate references and existing accepted study designs.
  • Evidence generation: support evidence generation across research, development, and commercial organizations to demonstrate performance of our products against reference, as well as health economic measures in real-world deployment.

Partnerships: Engage with startups and other industry bodies to explore technologies which might be relevant to our future products
  • External engagement: Engage external PIs and thought leaders as needed for consulting, research PI support, and advisory board involvement. Evangelize Samsung's efforts in digital health research in public forums. Engage university centers closely to grow industry-academia collaboration.

Strategic support:
  • Digital health research strategy: support development and communication of SRA's digital health strategy, including deck creation for senior leadership
  • Task force engagement: to support clinical perspective in strategic task force initiatives

Required Skills:
  • MD with expertise in technical innovation and data science, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • 14+ years combined clinical practice and device/digital health work experience
  • 3+ years in patient care with focus on lifestyle and preventative medicine
  • Experience building or deploying products within healthcare, digital health, or consumer health applications
  • Excellent understanding of human physiology in conditions across health and wellness
  • Experience working with or advising digital health focused startups
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Clinical teams
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills


Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The base pay range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the base pay range, individual rates depend on a number of factors-including the role's function and location as well as the individual's knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.

Base Pay Range

$216,300-$324,500 USD

Additional Information

Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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