Principal Clinical Strategist

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Director of Clinical Delivery to join our Delivery team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in preop medicine, perioperative leadership, and clinical workflow transformation to own the clinical voice of the project- shaping product direction, earning health-system trust, and turning frontline nursing skepticism into adoption with excellent change management, effective workflow design, and building appropriate AI/technology operationalizetion into clinical workflows. You'll work cross-functionally with our Enterprise Clinical Strategy team to influence our product, engineering, implementation, customer success, sales, while partnering with our surgeon and anesthesiologist medical directors to shape solutions that deliver measurable value to PAT teams, anesthesia departments, and the patients they serve. This is a high-impact role that will influence our product roadmap, clinical governance, and go-to-market strategy, strengthen customer outcomes, and shape our company's growth trajectory.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Strategy & Product Direction
• Contribute to clinical decision-making on product priorities, escalation paths, risk-stratification logic, and clinical content (in close partnership with our anesthesiologist medical directors).
• Partner with Medical Directors to translate evolving evidence, guidelines (ASA, AANA, AORN, ASPAN, Joint Commission), and regulatory expectations into product and workflow requirements.
• Oversee the existing team members as they define and own the clinical outcomes framework - what we measure, how we measure it, and how we tell the story of impact (cancellation rates, screening completion, nurse productivity, optimization yield, day-of-surgery delays, patient experience).
• Customer Clinical Relationships
• Build and maintain executive-level clinical relationships at every customer that could include CMOs, CNOs, AVP/VP Perioperative Services, Anesthesia Department Chairs, PAT Medical Directors, PAT Nurse Managers.
• Serve as the first line of defence for triaging clinical decisions and partnerin with Enterprise Clinical Strategy surgeons and anesthesiologists during sales, implementation, and ongoing partnership phases.
• Represent Qventus during system clinical AI governance activities and contribute to partnership governance including value reviews and outcome-sharing sessions with customer clinical leadership.
• Team Leadership
• Set the clinical workflow design standards that the implementation and customer success teams execute against; partner with their leaders to ensure clinical fidelity from kickoff through go-live and steady state.
• Lead, develop, and grow the clinical organization, starting with our clinical strategists and expanding as we scale.
• Partner with the medical director(s) to formalize perspectives on clinical and AI governance, safety review, and appropriateness frameworks.
• Change Management & Nursing Adoption
• Own the playbook for earning PAT and OR nursing trust and driving adoption, including pre-implementation engagement, super-user development, workflow co-design, and ongoing change management.
• Coach client clinical leaders through the people-side of the change, drawing on your own experience leading nursing teams through workflow transformation.
• Be visibly accountable to nursing teams for the safety, quality, and humanity of the product.
• External Presence & Thought Leadership
• Represent the company at major clinical conferences (e.g., ASA, AANA, AORN, ASPAN, AAACN, AONL).
• Partner with Medical Directors and Chief Clincial Officer to publish, present, and speak on the future of pre-anesthesia optimization, AI in perioperative care, and nursing-led innovation.
• Build and steward our KOL network and clinical advisory board in collaboration with Enterprise Clinical Strategy team.
• Commercial Partnership
• Partner with medical directors and sales team as the senior clinical delivery voice in late-stage opportunities such as clinical demos, executive site visits, and clinical due diligence.

Requirements

• Required
• Recent or active. RN with advanced practice and/or executive credentials, CRNA, or MD/DO in Anesthesiology.
• Min

Benefits

Additional Information

On this journey for over 12 years, Qventus is leading the transformation of healthcare. We enable hospitals to focus on what matters most: patient care. Our innovative solutions harness the power of machine learning, generative AI, and behavioral science to deliver exceptional outcomes and empower care teams to anticipate and resolve issues before they arise. Our success in rapid scale across the globe is backed by some of the world's leading investors. At Qventus, you will have the opportunity to work with an exceptional, mission-driven team across the globe, and the ability to directly impact the lives of patients. We're inspired to work with healthcare leaders on our founding vision and unlock world-class medicine through world-class operations. #LI-JB1

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