109K–171K USD / year
Head of Clinical Development, Pulse
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Published on 2026-10-02
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About this role
Lead clinical development for Pulse, Sword’s AI cardiometabolic care solution for hypertension, pre-diabetes, and GLP-1 support. Set clinical standards across product development, AI governance, outcomes, and care operations, while supporting external clinical credibility and go-to-market efforts.
About the company
Sword Health is a digital musculoskeletal care company that helps employers and health plans deliver AI-powered physical therapy and related care programs.
The team
Pulse, working with Product, Go-to-Market, Clinical Operations, Clinical Affairs & Research; reports to the General Manager and partners with the Chief Medical Officer and SVP for Clinical & Regulatory Affairs.
What you'll do
- Set clinical validation standards for features, workflows, interventions, and AI-supported experiences.
- Provide clinical input on feature assessments, product requirements, and roadmap decisions.
- Monitor clinical outcomes and direct program, protocol, product, workflow, or training changes.
- Define clinical boundaries and prohibited behaviors for AI-supported experiences.
- Co-develop AI evaluation rubrics, acceptance criteria, release thresholds, and annotator training materials.
- Contribute to post-launch AI monitoring and clinical governance.
- Represent Pulse as an external clinical voice and author clinical communications and claims.
What we're looking for
- Licensed clinician (MD, DO, NP, RD, or PharmD) with 8+ years of clinical experience.
- At least 3 years of clinical leadership experience in digital health, health tech, or value-based care.
- Expertise in hypertension, pre-diabetes and diabetes, obesity, and GLP-1 therapeutics.
- Experience owning clinical outcomes frameworks, evidence standards, and outcomes linked to commercial value.
- Experience translating clinical requirements into product features, workflows, and AI behavior.
- Ability to define clinical guardrails and evaluation criteria for AI-driven care.
- Strong writing and narrative skills, including authoring whitepapers and clinical claims language.
- Comfort with ambiguity and building clinical infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience presenting to CMOs, health plan medical directors, and clinical audiences.