Medical Director

• Provide management and support for ongoing and future nephrology development and life-cycle activities for clinical programs
• Assist in the design and implementation of clinical studies, including human pharmacology studies, and data analyses
• Assist in reporting clinical trial safety and efficacy data
• Collaborate with cross-functional multidisciplinary study teams to ensure Good Clinical Practices are followed
• Lead writing of clinical and data analysis reports, slide presentations, ClinicalTrials.gov summaries, and related materials
• Contribute to clinical, scientific, and mechanism-of-action sections of INDs, NDAs, and BLAs
• Prepare protocols, SAPs, mock TFLs, investigator brochures, medical reports, efficacy and safety summaries, scientific rationales, benefit/risk ratios, regulatory briefing books, and responses to regulator information requests
• Establish and maintain relationships with alliance partners, external companies, investigators, and key opinion leaders
• Prepare manuscripts for scientific and medical journals
• Prepare and present at scientific meetings

Director, Clinical Science

• Lead clinical performance and care model execution across designated care teams and markets
• Partner with operational, nursing, advanced practice provider, physician, and cross-functional leaders to drive consistent, high-quality care delivery
• Drive consistency in clinical decision-making, escalation pathways, and documentation practices
• Provide education to NPs and care team members in physiology, pathology, and care guidelines
• Implement protocols, care pathways, and best practices into operations
• Identify and reduce unwarranted variation in care delivery
• Oversee clinical focus on kidney disease, comorbidity management, hospitalization prevention, transitions of care, and optimal starts
• Provide direct and indirect leadership to clinicians and interdisciplinary teammates
• Coach teams on complex clinical cases and high-risk patient management
• Support onboarding, development, performance management, and ongoing clinician growth
• Optimize workflows, role clarity, handoffs, and care team processes
• Use performance data, clinical insights, and frontline feedback to improve operational reliability
• Support scalable panel management, risk stratification, care coordination, and post-discharge follow-up
• Provide clinical input into decision support tools, documentation workflows, registries, and technology-enabled care processes
• Partner with product, analytics, informatics, and operational teams to improve visibility into patient risk, care gaps, and clinical performance
• Review high-utilizer patient cases for opportunities to improve NP-delivered care
• Own clinical performance across assigned care teams and markets
• Drive improvements in quality, patient outcomes, team performance, and care model execution
• Serve as a trusted partner to operational, nursing, and enterprise clinical leaders
• Lead through influence in a highly matrixed environment and foster patient-centered, accountable teams

Senior Director, Clinical Programs – Clinical Transformation

• Drive CrowdStrike's strategic initiative to secure customer environments
• Lead strategic conversations and build relationships with key decision-makers, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor to CIOs and CSOs
• Establish partnerships with Regional VPs, Directors, and core sellers to position CrowdStrike's Horizon technologies
• Collaborate with customers on incorporating Horizon security products within operational workflows during technical evaluations and post-sales
• Work with marketing and sales teams to develop and execute outreach campaigns that develop platform sales pipeline and customer awareness
• Collaborate ad hoc with field- and product specialist sales teams to help close significant deals
• Train internal teams to better position Horizon products
• Provide Product Management teams with customer feedback about new and existing features and capabilities
• Stay educated and informed about CrowdStrike's vision, product roadmaps, and threat landscape
• Travel up to 50% and potentially work modified hours for accounts in other time zones

Horizon Practice Director, Healthcare

• Lead clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics strategies on cross-functional teams
• Oversee design and application of population PK, exposure–response, PK/PD, and PBPK models across clinical drug development programs, predominantly for small molecules
• Oversee external bioanalytical CROs
• Develop and implement clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics strategies across all stages of clinical development, including pediatric programs
• Manage NCA, population PK, exposure–response, PK/PD, and PBPK modeling and simulation analyses to inform decision-making
• Support dose selection and clinical trial study design in pediatric populations
• Support global regulatory submissions and labeling
• Author and contribute to clinical pharmacology sections of regulatory documents, including IB, DSUR, briefing books, and NDA/MAA submissions
• Support interactions with global regulatory agencies
• Design clinical pharmacology studies and manage study execution and CROs/vendors
• Conduct PK data analyses and provide study-level oversight
• Author, review, and approve protocols, analysis plans, and reports
• Present results to internal teams and external stakeholders
• Contribute to scientific publications, abstracts, and conference presentations
• Communicate findings effectively to internal and external stakeholders

Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacology

• Own full P&L responsibility for the healthcare nutrition portfolio, accountable for revenue, margin, and growth performance
• Develop and execute a growth-focused brand strategy driving awareness, adoption, and loyalty among healthcare providers, distributors, and GPOs
• Lead product launches, portfolio optimization, and lifecycle management with a commercial and ROI focus
• Design and execute integrated, multi-channel marketing programs across digital, educational, events, and content channels
• Partner with Sales, Commercial Operations, and Clinical teams on sales enablement tools, provider programs, and distributor initiatives
• Leverage market research, competitive insights, and provider feedback to inform strategy and optimize investments
• Manage marketing budgets and resource allocation to maximize impact, efficiency, and profitability
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing cross-functional team
• Represent the company at industry conferences, provider events, and forums
• Identify and pursue growth opportunities, partnerships, and innovations to expand market share and portfolio growth

Director, Healthcare Marketing – Business Development

• Direct medical affairs activities including scientific communications, medical information and scientific support for claims, and educational grants
• Lead the team in delivering clinical evidence to the physician community through impactful scientific communications aligned with Medical Affairs strategy
• Recommend and implement strategies, systems, and processes for scientific communications
• Lead assessment of clinical data and development and delivery of publications in peer-reviewed medical/cardiology journals and physician podium presentations
• Recommend and implement strategies, systems, and processes for medical information related to transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
• Ensure provision of information supporting appropriate product use and scientific exchange
• Lead effective scientific review of product claims related to transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
• Lead effective implementation of educational grant reviews
• Refine and implement best practices and methods through directors, managers, and experienced professionals
• Develop a talent development and succession plan aligned with Medical Affairs growth strategy
• Lead risk identification, mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, and issue resolution with cross-functional and matrix teams
• Plan and direct strategic activities and prioritize projects to meet business objectives
• Analyze, formulate, and present recommendations to guide leadership
• Develop and deliver senior leadership and executive-level communications

Senior Director, Medical Affairs

• Report directly to the Senior Medical Director with a dotted line to the Chief Officer for Health and Innovation
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, efficient and comprehensive healthcare services throughout the continuum of care
• Develop and implement Utilization Management policy and procedures
• Enhance efficiency and quality of care through effective network management
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key providers and thought leaders
• Provide leadership and direction to UMC primary care and specialist physicians
• Co-chair utilization management, quality management, peer review and patient safety committees as needed
• Interface with health plans regarding benefits, coverage issues, appeals and HMO hearings
• Manage care in a cost-containment manner without compromising health outcomes
• Facilitate clinical rounds with Case Managers and Management to meet bed day performance goals
• Engage network physicians regarding performance, cost, clinical appropriateness and authorizations
• Develop UM policies, authorization review criteria and physician education forums
• Address case management problems and participate in IDCT Meetings
• Support physician education on UM and provide input into UM goals and objectives
• Coordinate prospective, concurrent and retrospective review, including denial or approval of outside medical service referrals
• Develop and maintain written medical care protocols and assure UM standardization
• Conduct chart reviews for appropriateness of applying clinical guidelines
• Serve as physician-to-physician liaison for UM-related issues
• Prepare and review Decision Validation Criteria as required by UM
• Attend required UM, health plan, hospital and One Altais meetings

• Hold clinical accountability for Enhanced Care Management delivered to Medi-Cal members with high medical and social complexity
• Set standards for clinical review of care plans and encounters
• Own clinical protocols used by care teams, including escalation pathways and patient acuity-tiering criteria
• Directly supervise the two nurse practitioners providing clinical oversight across the ECM panel
• Provide clinical input into health plan audits, fidelity requirements, and regulatory submissions
• Own clinical quality measures and responses to identified gaps
• Partner with the Executive Director of Behavioral Health and Care Management on the RN service line
• Partner with the SVP of Care Delivery on care model design
• Establish a documented clinical review standard, scalable protocols, validated acuity tiering, needs-based NP capacity allocation, and early quality-gap visibility within the first twelve months

• Provide strategic and tactical support for nephrology programs under the supervision of the Executive Director, Global Medical Affairs, Nephrology
• Lead interactions and collaboration with external experts
• Develop and deliver scientific engagement activities, including advisory boards
• Support medical-led scientific meetings, such as the RKD Scientific Summit
• Collaborate with the scientific communication team on scientific messaging and content
• Support publication planning, medical education activities, and congress planning
• Collaborate with field medical partners on external expert interactions, evidence generation activities, and team training
• Lead Medical Affairs competitive intelligence activities and communicate actionable recommendations
• Represent Medical Affairs at Medical Review Committee and Promotional Review Committee meetings
• Support the Executive Medical Director with commercial and payor-related activities
• Support annual Medical Strategic planning and life-cycle management plans
• Partner with Strategy & Operations to ensure effective processes and systems for the Nephrology Therapeutic Area
• Manage vendors and budgets to drive corporate efficiency
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Medical Director – Global Medical Affairs, Nephrology

• Provide effective clinical leadership for molecular pathology laboratory services and products
• Provide clinical oversight of molecular pathology laboratory operations, including patient care, clinical trials, and clinical research
• Ensure laboratory operations comply with applicable regulations
• Support development, validation, and operation of Guardant’s products across locations and regulatory environments
• Ensure clinical laboratory duties, testing systems, methodologies, verification procedures, quality control, and quality assessment are properly performed
• Provide onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation to the clinical laboratory as needed
• Ensure appropriate physical and environmental laboratory conditions and employee safety
• Verify personnel perform test methods accurately and reliably
• Act as temporary Laboratory Director when the license-holder Laboratory Director is absent
• Delegate Technical Supervisor, General Supervisor, Clinical Consultant, and Testing Personnel responsibilities to qualified employees
• Oversee proficiency testing, review reports, and implement corrective action plans
• Maintain analytical performance standards and document remedial actions for significant deviations
• Ensure test reports include pertinent interpretation information and provide consultation on test-result quality and interpretation
• Ensure onsite supervision of high-complexity testing
• Ensure adequate staffing, education, training, competency monitoring, procedure manuals, and written responsibilities
• Perform biennial reviews of Standard Operating Procedures
• Report test-quality and safety concerns to the Laboratory Supervisor or Safety Officer

Medical Director jobs in California

Director, Clinical Science

Senior Director, Clinical Programs – Clinical Transformation

Horizon Practice Director, Healthcare

Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacology

Director, Healthcare Marketing – Business Development

Senior Director, Medical Affairs