Remote | Strategic Project Lead, MD/Health — $400,000–$550,000/year
About The Position
We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced healthcare and medical professional with strong leadership, project execution, data operations, and domain expertise to lead complex initiatives supporting advanced AI organisations and healthcare-focused data workflows. The role combines medical-domain knowledge with end-to-end project leadership. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer needs into clear project specifications, design and improve healthcare data workflows, coordinate Operations and Health/Medicine subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders. An MD or equivalent medical degree is required.
Requirements
- MD or equivalent medical degree required
- 2+ years of experience in medicine, healthcare, clinical practice, medical research, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or healthcare-related initiatives
- Strong healthcare and medical-domain knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from ambiguity through delivery
- Strong project-management and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience coordinating cross-functional or expert teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work effectively with senior healthcare and medical professionals
- Strong attention to detail, ownership, urgency, and operational discipline
Nice To Haves
- Experience with clinical workflows, medical research, or healthcare data is valuable
- Experience with technical or data-intensive healthcare projects is beneficial
- Familiarity with AI/ML organisations, data annotation, evaluation workflows, or human-in-the-loop systems is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Own complex projects from scoping through execution and final delivery
- Translate customer requirements into structured project plans and healthcare workflow specifications
- Define milestones, dependencies, deliverables, quality standards, and success criteria
- Design workflows suited to clinical, medical, research, and healthcare-data tasks
- Resolve blockers quickly and maintain delivery momentum
- Design and refine healthcare-focused data pipelines and human-data workflows
- Coordinate expert-driven review, annotation, and evaluation processes
- Improve workflow efficiency, scalability, and operational reliability
- Establish quality-control and delivery processes
- Identify bottlenecks and implement practical improvements
- Work closely with physicians, healthcare professionals, Operations teams, and project leads
- Own client communication across scope, quality, timing, progress, and risk
- Align contributors around clear responsibilities and execution expectations
- Provide concise updates, direction, and feedback
- Support rapid deployment of expert teams for new initiatives
- Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, and human-generated healthcare data
- Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems
- Apply medical-domain judgement to project specifications and evaluation criteria
- Maintain strong execution across medical, operational, and technical workstreams
- Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
