Head of Clinical Operations & Study Delivery

RDI•Los Angeles, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

RDI runs diagnostic studies for some of the largest IVD companies in the world. Clients often bring us the hard ones: aggressive timelines, difficult recruitment, unusual sample requirements, complicated site models, or programs that simply need a different approach. We need another load-bearing operator to own Clinical Operations alongside our CEO and COO and build the team and operating system that let us handle more of it. This is not a role where you inherit a large department and manage from above. You will lead people, but you also need to understand the work well enough to step into a study, find what is wrong, make the call, and help fix it. Your job is not to preserve the way RDI operates today. Your job is to make us better.

Requirements

Have run clinical research yourself and know what happens between the protocol and the final dataset because you have lived it.
Have built a research site, laboratory, clinical program, CRO, or operating team.
Be a little underleveraged today: highly capable, frustrated by how slowly decisions move, and ready to own substantially more than your current company will give you.

Nice To Haves

IVD and diagnostics experience is valuable.

Responsibilities

Own clinical study delivery across RDI.
Turn protocols and scopes into real execution plans.
Keep timelines, enrollment, sites, samples, budgets, risks, and client commitments under control.
See problems before they become fire drills.
Make sure project status reflects reality, not optimism.
Lead and develop PMs, CTMs, CRAs, and clinical staff.
Decide when to coach, when to delegate, and when to step directly into the work.
Improve how we manage study startup, sites, recruitment, monitoring, samples, data, and closeout.
Build systems that make accountability and study status obvious.
Work directly with clients when difficult programs require senior operational judgment.
Build the Clinical Operations organization capable of handling a larger and harder portfolio.