Lead, Clinical Innovation

Samsung Research America•Mountain View, CA

6d•$235,400 - $365,650•Onsite

About The Position

Our mission is to empower people to live healthier lives by leveraging our wearables, smartphones, medical devices, AI, and health services. We research, develop, and commercialize innovative digital health products and solutions by bringing together the full capabilities of our team, including product strategy and management, clinical expertise, partnerships, UI/UX design, usability research, clinical research and validation, software development, AI / Gen AI, and regulatory. Millions of Samsung users’ lives around the world have been touched by our products, including the Samsung HeartWise for cardiac rehabilitation and the Samsung ECG Monitor App. Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on Digital Health and AI / Gen AI provides exciting technical challenges and rewarding career experience. Join us! The Clinical Innovation Lead will enrich the digital health R&D roadmap with clinical insight, spanning from early research to late development. This candidate is a practicing physician who will bring a skillset of clinical, technical, product, interpersonal, and translational expertise. Initially as an individual contributor, this individual will be matrixed on core teams for individual projects and products.

Requirements

PhD/MD and extensive experience in clinical research and product innovation in digital health, or or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
16+ years combined clinical practice and device/digital health work experience
MD with expertise in technical innovation and data science
Experience building or deploying products within healthcare, digital health, or consumer health applications
Excellent understanding of human physiology in conditions across health and wellness. At least three years of experience in patient care with focus on lifestyle and preventative medicine
Experience working with or advising digital health focused startups
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Clinical teams
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

Provide clinical insights and guidance for ongoing projects and new initiatives. Guided by principles of minimizing harm, maximizing health benefit, and increasing adoption of Samsung Health products.
New opportunity generation, including writing proposals for novel product concepts according to technical performance, clinical utility, and commercial value. Work closely with biosensors and algorithms team as required to map out use cases and performance requirements.
Support SaMD feature design, product requirements & use case-specific product claims and portfolio prioritization. Specific support includes developing recommendations for appropriate clinical/user experience measures within the product requirements to minimize harm and maximize health benefit to users.
Inform study design for research studies (including as-needed, protocol development, IRB approval, medical monitor), including Sponsored Research, algorithms, and biosensor studies. Ensure standardization against appropriate references and existing accepted study designs.
Support evidence generation across research, development, and commercial organizations to demonstrate performance of our products against reference, as well as health economic measures in real-world deployment.
Engage with startups and other industry bodies to explore technologies which might be relevant to our future products.
Engage external PIs and thought leaders as needed for consulting, research PI support, and advisory board involvement. Evangelize Samsung’s efforts in digital health research in public forums. Engage university centers closely to grow industry-academia collaboration.
Support development and communication of SRA’s digital health strategy, including deck creation for senior leadership.
To support clinical perspective in strategic task force initiatives.