Head of Clinician Science

📋 Description

• Lead and grow the Clinician Science team. Recruit, develop, and manage a team of clinician scientists with diverse specialty expertise. Foster a culture of clinical rigor, intellectual curiosity, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensure clinical excellence across product development. Partner with product teams to embed clinical expertise into feature discovery, design, and validation. Translate clinical workflows and best practices into actionable product requirements.
• Define and uphold clinical quality standards. Establish frameworks for what "clinically meaningful" means across specialties, note types, and workflows. Guide the team in evaluating note quality, prompt iterations, and model outputs through LFD sessions and systematic assessments.
• Build scalable clinical evaluation systems. Partner with ML Science to develop LLM judges, annotation frameworks, and evaluation pipelines that scale clinical expertise. Ensure evaluation methodologies reflect real-world clinical judgment, not just technical metrics.
• Bridge clinical and technical domains. Serve as a translator between clinical reality and ML/engineering capabilities. Help engineers and ML scientists understand clinical nuance; help clinicians understand technical constraints and opportunities.
• Close the feedback loop with Commercial. Partner with Clinical Success and Solutions Consulting to surface real-world usage insights, customer feedback, and quality issues. Ensure product development stays grounded in how clinicians actually use Abridge.

🎯 Requirements

• Active clinical background. MD, DO, NP, PA, or equivalent clinical degree with 3+ years of clinical practice experience. Board certification preferred.
• Management experience. 3+ years managing technical or clinical teams. Track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing individuals.
• Technical fluency with AI/ML. Strong understanding of NLP, LLMs, prompt engineering, and model evaluation. Experience with clinical informatics, health IT, or AI in healthcare strongly preferred.
• Product sensibility. Experience working in cross-functional product teams. Comfortable translating clinical insights into product requirements and prioritizing work that drives meaningful impact.
• Systems thinking. Ability to design scalable processes and frameworks—not just provide one-off clinical input.
• Pragmatic problem-solver. Bias toward action and iteration. Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make progress even when clinical "gold standards" don't exist.

🎁 Benefits

• Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees.
• Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
• Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
• Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
• Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
• 401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.