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Clinical Development Lead

Pleasanton, CA 94588

Posted: 05/14/2024 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Medical Affairs Job Number: 11696 Pay Rate: $46.00 - $100.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client develops, manufactures, and supplies wide array of innovative medical diagnostic products, services, tests, platforms, and technologies.

Basic Functions and General Scope:

The Clinical Development Lead, Infection and Immunity, provides clinical guidance for the development of new laboratory and digital diagnostic products in the areas of infectious diseases and immunology.  The lead identifies unmet needs for new products, defines their clinical requirements, contributes to early research and development, and, as the clinical leader on cross-functional project teams, leads the clinical development and validation strategy to register these products as In Vitro Diagnostics with regulatory agencies.

Specific Responsibilities:
  • Serves as a medical leader and expert, keeping the company abreast of advances in clinical medicine, health systems and public health relating to infectious diseases and immunology, and connects the company to external experts and stakeholders.
  • Identifies areas of unmet medical need for diagnostics.
  • Leads exploratory studies to guide product development and generate intellectual property.
  • Defines potential clinical utility claims for products.
  • Provides medical/scientific input into and assists with the preparation of regulatory submissions.
  • Provides responses to regulatory agency questions.
  • Assists Research and Development Groups with target product profiles and design choices. and the design of performance verification and troubleshooting experiments.
  • Reviews the data from these experiments from a clinical perspective.
  • Develops product specifications to ensure that products will be safe, effective and clinically useful.
  • Works with Clinical Operations to design, implement, interpret, report and publish clinical research studies to support product registrations.
  • Identifies suitable academic partners, external laboratories and clinical sites to participate in clinical studies.
  • Presents research findings in meeting abstracts and publications.
  • Provides clinical expertise for medical risk and safety assessments.

Job Requirements

Position Requirements:
  • Graduate work in microbiology, virology, or immunology; Completion of an MD and/or PhD preferred.
  • 1+ years of clinical research experience, with thorough knowledge of clinical trial design and statistical methods for clinical research.
  • More experience is preferred.
  • Proven ability to design clinical trials, critically evaluate study results, and write protocols, study reports and publications.
  • Understanding of laboratory techniques in infectious diseases in at least one of the following areas (more are preferred): PCR, sequencing, serology, microbiology, clinical virology.
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills.
  • Experience interfacing with key opinion leaders including physicians and clinical laboratorians.
Preferred:
  • 3+ years clinical experience in infectious diseases clinical care or in medical microbiology/virology. Board certification is a plus.
  • Laboratory work experience.
  • Expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, implementation science or other aspects of public health.
  • Experience within the diagnostics, medical device or pharmaceutical industry, with an understanding of the product development process, regulatory processes, and a track record of regulatory approval based on clinical trials.
  • Experience with the development of clinical software.
  • Expertise in one or more of the following clinical areas: (a) immunocompromised host, HIV, transplant; (b) sepsis; (c) hepatitis; (d) respiratory infections; (e) clinical immunology.

Meet Your Recruiter

Jay Hite
Recruiter, Account Manager

As a Recruiter at Compass, Jay enjoys meeting job seekers and helping them to find new and exciting opportunities. He enjoys the process of getting to know candidates and learning all about their experience and what their future goals are. Jay feels the excitement of his candidates and is passionate about helping to find a fit both culturally and professionally. 

When Jay isn’t working, he enjoys bike rides, trying out new foods, tequila tasting and watching movies.  

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