Clinical AI Manager
About The Position
Ambience is building AI systems that help clinicians deliver better care. At the heart of that work is our clinical AI team: physicians and other clinicians who build, evaluate, and refine the AI that generates clinical documentation used by health systems across the country. Clinical AI is a new discipline. There is no playbook for it, and the people doing it well combine clinical judgment, technical skill, and the ability to work through ambiguous, fast-changing problems. Our team has grown to the point where it needs more leaders. We're looking for a Clinical AI Manager to lead a group of clinical AI ICs across two of our product pods. This is a leadership role, but not a purely managerial one: you'll ramp as an IC first, keep doing hands-on work in your pods, and serve as a technical and clinical sounding board for your team. Our leadership roles are hybrid in our SF office, 3x/week.
Requirements
- Physician (MD or DO) who completed residency and has practiced clinically.
- 3-5+ years at a tech company after (or alongside) clinical practice.
- Has managed formal direct reports at a tech company.
- Technically fluent: some coding ability, comfortable with AI concepts, and able to understand and review what your ICs are building.
- Strong executor: reliable, organized, and proactive. People trust you to own things end to end.
- Comfortable with ambiguity: our problems are fast-changing and rarely arrive well-defined.
- Willing to work from our San Francisco office 3x/week.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on LLM product experience (prompting, evaluations, error analysis) is a strong plus.
- Startup experience is a plus; excitement for the pace and ownership of one is a must.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop ~5 clinical AI ICs across two pods, growing clinicians who are new to tech into strong operators.
- Own the clinical AI roadmap, quality, and delivery for your pods.
- Carry your own projects within your pods: prompting, evaluation design, error analysis, and clinical content work.
- Review your team's work, bounce ideas around, and help ICs reason through evaluation and prompting decisions.
- Bring physician judgment to what our AI produces and represent the clinical perspective with product, engineering, and customers.
- Help your ICs build strong execution habits: project planning, timelines, and proactive communication.
- Interview and evaluate candidates as we grow the team.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- Parental leave to support your family needs
- Annual company-wide off-sites, team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings, with travel, lodging and meals covered
- Flexible time off with no annual cap, company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24–January 1
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
