Forward Deployed Medical Lead – Clinical AI Deployment & Adoption

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy


Date: 2 hours ago
City: Cambridge
Contract type: Full time
Remote
About The Company

Our client is building autonomous AI clinicians that operate at scale within health systems worldwide. Partnering with hospitals, national health services, and ministries of health, they are redefining how clinical care is delivered through frontier AI.

Founded by serial healthcare entrepreneurs with multiple unicorn successes, the company is already working with pioneering institutions that are shaping the future of medicine.

  • Location: EMEA (Remote)
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Level: Mid-Senior Level


The Opportunity

This is one of the first Forward Deployed Medical Lead hires within the organization.

You won't join an existing playbook, you'll help create it.

As the clinical voice on the ground, you will bridge clinicians and engineers, ensuring that cutting-edge AI becomes trusted, safe, and effective patient care. You'll work directly with healthcare leaders, build adoption strategies, and define how clinical AI is deployed globally.

What You'll Do

  • Co-design clinical workflows, governance models, and deployment strategies with partner organizations
  • Translate seamlessly between engineering teams and clinicians
  • Lead clinical adoption initiatives including training, change management, and stakeholder engagement
  • Build trust with physicians, nurses, and healthcare executives
  • Define clinical readiness metrics and deployment standards
  • Support commercial discussions where clinical credibility is essential
  • Shape the organization's long-term clinical playbook and best practices


Required Qualifications

  • Clinical background (MD, RN, PharmD, or equivalent) or senior medical operations leadership experience
  • Experience implementing healthcare technology or digital transformation initiatives
  • Strong change management and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both clinicians and engineers
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Technology-positive mindset with curiosity for AI and emerging healthcare tools
  • Excellent English communication skills


Ideal Backgrounds

  • Physician who transitioned into health tech or clinical AI
  • Medical operations leader at a digital-first healthcare provider
  • Clinical informatics specialist with deployment experience
  • Hospital medical director leading transformation programs
  • Public health physician with system-level implementation experience
  • Military medical officer with deployment experience


Preferred Experience

  • Deployment of AI or digital health solutions in hospitals
  • Clinical governance or implementation playbook design
  • Experience with healthcare systems, payers, or ministries of health
  • Work in high-growth healthcare startups or scaleups
  • Exposure to clinical AI products and workflows


What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Opportunity to shape an entirely new category in healthcare AI
  • Direct collaboration with world-class founders and healthcare innovators
  • Flexible remote work model with global impact


If you are excited by the idea of translating frontier AI into real-world patient outcomes and shaping the future of medicine, this is an opportunity to help define an entirely new category of healthcare delivery...

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