Senior Clinical Scientist (Cambridge, MA)

Your role

• Maintain and expand relationships with key opinion leader physicians, including organizing physician visits to the Cambridge, MA location, hosting clinicians for phantom / animal / usability studies and clinical site visits.
• Coordinate conference participation with product management and clinical science teams, including renting NDA rooms, scheduling physician slots, delivering customer/physician demonstrations and organizing feedback sessions with physicians.
• Serve as the clinical expert for the internal multidisciplinary team, acting as a connector and translator between internal technical staff and key opinion leader physicians, answering clinical workflow questions, providing internal multidisciplinary team clinical training and seminars, contributing to testing, evaluation and validation of device functionality in the clinical context with clinicians, in house or in the field.
• Lead clinical collaborations and contracting activities with Key Opinion Leaders, research institutions, and hospitals, help to design and execute studies, including usability, phantom, animal, clinical and other evidence-generation activities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including R&D, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Usability to ensure clinical workflow requirements, procedural considerations, and physician feedback are incorporated into product design and validation activities.
• Continuously monitor developments in clinical practice, emerging technologies, and scientific literature to ensure that product development activities remain aligned with evolving clinical needs and future market opportunities.
• Maintain the cath lab in Cambridge, MA addressing issues by coordinating with the maintenance and sales teams, and ensure necessary devices and supplies are purchased and stocked ahead of studies.
• Act as the clinical subject matter expert for reviewing and approving required product development documentation such as safety risk assessment documentation and clinical protocols.
• Travel expected up to 20%.

You're the right fit if

• You've acquired 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree (or 5+ years with a Master's degree) in Clinical Research, Clinical Science, Medical Affairs, Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Biomedical Sciences, Medical Device Development, or a related healthcare field.
• Backgrounds such as clinical education/physician training, clinical application specialist, field clinical engineer, medical science liaison with experience in neurovascular, image-guided therapy, interventional, or robotic medical technologies is strongly preferred.
• Cath lab and X-ray based image guidance experience is a plus.
• Your skills include Key Opinion Leader physician management, customer/physician demonstrations, physician engagement, organizing physician feedback sessions, clinical training, clinical workflow analysis for endovascular procedures, and the ability to translate clinical insights from clinicians and complex clinical workflows into product development and device evaluation activities.
• Prior exposure to regulatory submissions, pre-clinical studies and clinical studies in a highly regulated healthcare environment is desirable.
• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Biomedical Sciences, Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Clinical Research, or a related discipline. Advanced clinical/scientific education or PhD is a plus.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• You're an excellent communicator and relationship builder who thrives in multidisciplinary and fast-paced environments.
• Experience working with Key Opinion Leaders, conducting clinical collaborations, being involved in training activities, and supporting innovation programs is highly valued.
• You are highly organized, self-motivated, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic innovation environment.