Lead, Clinical Innovation

Lab Summary:

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. Samsungs 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!

Position Summary:

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.

Position Responsibilities:

Clinical Insights: 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.

• De novo projects: 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.
• SaMD/Product Dev: 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
• Study design: 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.
• Evidence generation: 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.

Partnerships: Engage with startups and other industry bodies to explore technologies which might be relevant to our future products.

• External engagement: Engage external PIs and thought leaders as needed for consulting research PI support and advisory board involvement. Evangelize Samsungs efforts in digital health research in public forums. Engage university centers closely to grow industry-academia collaboration.

Strategic support:

• Digital health research strategy: support development and communication of SRAs digital health strategy including deck creation for senior leadership.
• Task force engagement: to support clinical perspective in strategic task force initiatives.

Required Skills:

• 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

Additional Information

Disclosure of Trade Secrets

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Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone and frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

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