Senior Clinical Product Director

SAN MATEO, CA    ·    PRODUCT    ·   FULL TIME

Why do we need this person?

Rapid is an AI-powered healthcare platform that is changing the way patients with life-threatening conditions get care. Our technology platform offers clinical decision support, team communication & workflow tools, and analytics to create the care pathways in the network all the way from the home to the hospital so patients get to the right place at the right time for the right care. Our platform supports stroke and pulmonary embolism today with a near-term focus on expanding to other acute diseases.

We are installed in over 1800 hospitals in the world, have over 14,000 healthcare providers on our apps, are cleared in 60+ markets, and proven to speed up time to patient treatment, resulting in better patient outcomes. We process roughly ⅓ of all stroke patients in the US, a large number of stroke cases in other countries of the world, including Switzerland, Japan, Australia and Brazil. We’ve processed more than 2 million scans and are growing rapidly. Learn more https://RapidAI.com/trial-results

About this role

We have expanded our team and are looking for a team lead to oversee the clinical roadmap and manage our clinical product management team. This role will report to the VP of Product

Responsibilities: Team leadership

• Build and lead the Clinical Product Management team: select, hire, train and coach.
• Provide clinical and technical leadership to deliver future roadmap functionality and develop a research pipeline
• Provide leadership in collaboration with other medical directors, regulatory affairs, and other stakeholders in developing the clinical product strategy
• Form and lead cross-functional teams as required.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the company leadership team.
• Develop Product Management processes and team infrastructure.

Responsibilities: Clinical Product Definition

• Train Product managers to think rigorously and gather appropriate internal and external data to define the unmet need, craft product requirements, and evaluate performance tradeoffs.
• Provide senior Product Development leadership from product concept, through customer and product requirements, through implementation and launch.
• Coach the team to evaluate, prioritize, and communicate the roadmap for new pipeline products and timelines through the company.

Responsibilities: Define Clinical GTM/Launch Strategies

• Define Product positioning: Understand the competition, and be able to articulate how our product is differentiated and why those differentiators will win share in the marketplace.
• Work closely with commercial, product marketing, medical affairs, and medical communication teams to develop materials (eg, slide decks) to ensure scientific and medical accuracy as well as cross-functional alignment
• Leverage internal marketing and commercialization teams to position and successfully launch clinical products in the market.
• Help shape marketing material to communicate and promote value propositions and clinical value of the clinical products for acute disease (stroke, PE, etc). Work alongside marketing to bring to market and maximize product impact in the space

Responsibilities: Clinical Product Strategy, Vision & Storytelling


• Drive market narrative for how Rapidd software is influencing and driving patient value across hospitals globally
• Develop a strategic point of view: Collect, analyze and communicate competitive information to develop clinical competition intelligence internally.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies in the imaging, vascular and acute disease diagnostics spaces to define new and innovative opportunities to help achieve business goals
• Have a point of view to shape our future!

Basic Qualifications/ “Must-Haves”

• Doctoral degree in a clinical field (e.g. MD, PhD, PsyD, PharmD, etc.)
• Clinical experience in emergency medicine, urgent care, critical care, acute diseases (Trauma, STEMI, stroke)
• 7+ years of experience in consumer digital health product development including shipment of a product
• Med device experience with FDA submissions / clearance
• Excellent leadership, as well as verbal and written communication skills, and a strong understanding of relevant regulations and a commitment to compliance
• Exceptional communication skills (oral and written) with a knack for decomposing problems and communicating across multiple disciplines
• Strong leader, with proven ability to build and lead a strong Product Management team, including hiring, training and developing employees.
• “Hands-on”, likes to dive deep and solve problems, detail-oriented.
• Energy, enthusiasm, and sense of urgency.
• Risk taker, entrepreneurial – strong desire for ownership, and passion for building delightful product experiences
• Self-starter, capability to identify and resolve problems independently.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once seamlessly
• Strong project management & product operations skills
• Strong passion for software and other disruptive technologies
• Focused on constantly moving the team forward towards the objective. Able to anticipate and remove obstacles to make the team successful
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead a product point of view and vision

Desired Characteristics/ “Nice-to-Haves”

• Marketing and commercialization experience
• MBA
• Health-tech experience
• Software experience
• BONUS: Experience building software for physicians

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