Head of Research [NYC or SF]

Concurrence•New York City, NY

11h•Onsite

About The Position

Concurrence is building a platform that helps healthcare organizations create clinical AI agents. The company’s Health World Model unifies health-system data into an event-level record of patient care, and its agents support tasks across the patient journey. The company reports that its agents have supported more than 10 million patient encounters. Concurrence has about 35 people, works in person in New York and San Francisco, and is backed by Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. The Head of Research will establish and lead Concurrence’s research function, set its agenda with the CTO, hire researchers, and own evaluation of the company’s clinical agents. This includes developing benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and standards for determining whether systems are appropriate for patient use. The role will design and oversee studies, guide which research programs continue or stop, and ensure findings influence product decisions and what the company ships. The Head of Research will also represent the company’s research externally through publications, academic collaborations, and engagement with clinicians, regulators, policy stakeholders, and the research community. The role works closely with the company’s clinicians so research reflects real clinical practice, and owns accurate communication about system capabilities and limitations. It combines scientific leadership, program management, organizational judgment, and clear communication for clinical and regulatory audiences.

Requirements

Track record of running research programs, including ownership of scope, people, timelines, and decisions to stop programs.
Background in AI for health at a research lab or an equivalent setting.
Public record of rigorous work, such as publications, evaluation studies, benchmarks, or systems used by other researchers.
Fluency in clinical evaluation, including study design, standards of evidence in medicine, and the distinction between benchmark results and clinical claims.
Experience hiring and developing researchers and building the practices that support a research function.
Comfort with policy and regulatory conversations and judgment to communicate limitations clearly.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make technical work credible to clinical and non-technical audiences.
Strong sense of ownership and willingness to build a research function rather than inherit one.

Nice To Haves

Clinical training; practising or former clinicians who moved into research are welcome.
Experience with regulatory submissions, clinical trials, or evidence generation for a regulated product.
Experience evaluating agentic or multi-step LLM systems rather than single-turn models.
Existing relationships across academic medicine or health policy.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the research team, including hiring researchers and setting the research agenda with the CTO.
Own clinical-agent evaluation, including benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and standards for systems before they reach patients.
Design and run studies that withstand clinical scrutiny, and determine which programs should continue or stop.
Publish research and develop substantive academic collaborations from existing partnerships.
Represent Concurrence’s research to clinicians, regulators, academic partners, and the wider research community.
Own how the company describes its systems’ capabilities and limitations, using judgment appropriate for regulated communication.
Work with company clinicians to ensure evaluation reflects real clinical practice.
Translate research findings into product decisions in collaboration with engineering and deployment teams.