Head of Clinical Training

What you will do

• Develop and execute the clinical training strategy for the Heart, Lung, Liver, and Kidney platforms.
• Own training SOPs and lead training programs for clinical specialists, transplant surgeons, and other healthcare professionals.
• Lead a global team of Training Program Managers, clinical educators, instructional designers, and field-based trainers, and set qualification standards for trainers, preceptors, and proctors.
• Standardize onboarding, certification, cross-training, refresher, and recertification programs across regions and platforms.
• Partner with surgical directors and physician leaders to develop surgeon education for cardiothoracic and abdominal transplant teams, from organ preparation and cannulation through procedural workflows.
• Ensure all training aligns with the applicable IFU, approved indications, SOPs, and regulatory requirements, and support training and education related to other adjacent therapies involved in transplantation.
• Develop and maintain curricula, clinical simulations, assessments, and digital learning materials, updating them as products, indications, and clinical evidence evolve.
• Establish competency requirements and oversee assessments, field evaluations, remediation, and certification decisions, with targeted support for specialists needing additional clinical exposure.
• Partner with Clinical Operations to align training with staffing, platform coverage, case volume, and geographic expansion, including development of multi-platform Clinical Specialists.
• Prepare teams, surgeons, and transplant centers for clinical trials, product launches, and new indications.
• Use clinical events, customer feedback, and field performance data to drive training improvements and keep all training records complete and audit-ready.
• Manage the clinical training budget, staffing, lab schedule, and educational resources while promoting a culture of clinical excellence, patient safety, and expanding access to transplantation.
• Develop individualized learning and development plans for Clinical Specialists that address competency gaps, strengthen clinical proficiency, and prepare employees for expanded responsibilities and career growth.
• Collaborate with HR, Legal, Quality, and other functional leaders to support the design and delivery of training programs that address broader organizational, compliance, and employee development needs.
• Partner with HR and subject matter experts to develop and maintain a centralized learning content library within the learning management system (LMS), establishing standards for content review, approval, version control, and retirement to ensure materials remain current, accessible, and aligned with clinical and organizational training needs.

What you bring

Required

• Bachelor's degree in perfusion, nursing, respiratory therapy, biomedical sciences, healthcare education, or a related clinical field.
• Minimum of ten years of experience in transplantation, organ perfusion, medical devices, clinical education, surgery, critical care, or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of leadership experience in clinical training, professional education, clinical operations, or medical technology.
• Strong knowledge of organ transplantation, donor-organ management, operating-room workflows, and field-based clinical support.
• Experience developing and delivering clinical training for surgeons and other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstrated experience developing competency-based certification and recertification programs.
• Experience with simulation-based education, laboratory training, procedural instruction, and clinical performance assessment.
• Understanding of medical-device IFUs, approved indications, quality-system requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Demonstrated ability to lead geographically dispersed teams across domestic and international markets.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, coaching, organizational, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally based on operational and training needs.

Preferred

• Advanced clinical or graduate degree.
• Experience with ex vivo organ perfusion or organ-preservation technologies.
• Direct knowledge of TransMedics technology and the National OCS Program.
• Experience developing multi-organ and multi-platform clinical training programs.
• Experience supporting clinical trials, new product launches, new indications, and international expansion.