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# Clinical Innovation Executive Director

- **Company:** Worldwide Clinical Trials Holdings, Inc
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $167,000 - $332,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cyber Security, Decision Support Systems, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/clinical-innovation-executive-director-us-worldwide-clinical-trials-ho-10507913

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience required; an advanced degree in a clinical, scientific, business, technology, engineering, or related discipline is preferred.
 * 15+ years of progressive industry experience, including 10+ years leading clinical innovation strategy for organizations.
 * Hands-on operational experience within a clinical development organization, with strong knowledge of clinical delivery workflows, roles, controls, quality, and compliance expectations.
 * Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation and AI innovations in clinical development, from problem definition and solution design through implementation, adoption, and measurable operational impact.
 * Experience leading structured experiments, pilots, PoCs, or PoVs, including baselines, success measures, evidence capture, decision criteria, and implementation recommendations.
 * Experience developing business requirements, business cases, implementation plans, change and adoption approaches, and measurable benefits-realization frameworks.
 * Working knowledge of AI, intelligent automation, workflow technologies, data-driven decision support, and responsible-AI principles, with the ability to lead across complex global, matrixed stakeholder groups.
 * Strong business acumen, analytical judgment, facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, change-leadership skills, and proficiency in English.

## Description

As Clinical Innovation Executive Director, you'll set the enterprise vision and roadmap for clinical innovation, turning strategic opportunities into scalable solutions. You'll lead initiatives from opportunity definition through proof of concept (PoC), proof of value (PoV), and business-case development, while supporting implementation, adoption, and value realization.

Working with senior operational leaders, subject matter experts, IT, EPMO, and governance stakeholders, you'll help Worldwide make evidence-based investment decisions and build responsible, repeatable approaches to innovation across clinical development.

Where You'll Work

This is a remote role open to candidates based in the US. You will collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones.

What You'll Do

 * Define the enterprise clinical innovation vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities across automation, AI, analytics, and workflow transformation.
 * Build and prioritize an innovation portfolio aligned with strategic, operational, financial, and customer objectives.
 * Lead structured experimentation through PoCs and PoVs, establishing clear objectives, success measures, risks, decision criteria, and recommendations for scaling, refinement, or termination.
 * Translate clinical and operational needs into practical solution, workflow, data, integration, control, and support requirements in partnership with IT and EPMO.
 * Shape business cases, ROI models, implementation plans, and value-realization frameworks that connect innovation investments to measurable outcomes.
 * Drive operational readiness and adoption, including ownership, training, communications, human oversight, exception handling, feedback, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
 * Establish governance for responsible AI, automation, and clinical innovation, partnering with Quality, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, Privacy, and Regulatory stakeholders.
 * Measure operational and financial impact across productivity, capacity, quality, throughput, service improvement, user experience, and control effectiveness.
 * Build reusable methods, playbooks, and organizational capability that improve the speed, consistency, and effectiveness of clinical innovation.