Sr Director, Clinical Excellence Group Lead (I&I)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; position posted in multiple U.S. locations. Candidates must have permanent authorization to work in the United States. U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available.

Annual base salary: $214,900–$358,100, plus eligibility for a 22.5% bonus target and share-based long-term incentive program.

Company

hirify.global is a pharmaceutical company developing medicines through regulated clinical research and development programs.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop clinical scientists while fostering collaboration, accountability, learning, and agility.
• Provide strategic clinical, scientific, operational, and people leadership across complex Inflammation & Immunology dermatology development programs.
• Oversee clinical integrity, scientific quality, patient safety, study delivery, operational excellence, protocols, clinical study reports, and regulatory submissions.
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Data Science, Biostatistics, Digital/Technology, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Portfolio Strategy, and Business Operations.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable operating practices, governance frameworks, metrics, dashboards, and resource-planning approaches.
• Lead responsible adoption of AI/ML, automation, digital tools, and advanced analytics across protocol design, site selection, recruitment, data cleaning, query management, anomaly detection, and safety-risk prediction.

Requirements

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree required; PhD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive clinical research and development experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, including experience supporting global clinical programs in regulated GxP environments.
• Proven experience building, mentoring, developing, and inspiring high-performing clinical or cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated business acumen and experience bridging clinical science with business operations and leading cross-functional workstreams.
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.
• Strategic or applied experience using AI, machine learning, automation, digital tools, or advanced analytics to improve clinical development, research, or operational workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled clinical development use cases, including protocol optimization, recruitment and enrollment planning, data review, query management, safety-risk prediction, and workflow automation.
• Ability to partner with data science, digital, technology, clinical operations, bioinformatics, commercial, medical affairs, and other stakeholders to define requirements and support technical-solution deployment.
• Strong understanding of data governance, model risk, compliance, privacy, and ethical AI in pharmaceutical development.
• Enterprise mindset, change agility, digital fluency, balanced scientific and regulatory judgment, emotional intelligence, and a record of delivering measurable results.

Nice to have

• Strategic experience applying AI, machine learning, automation, digital tools, or advanced analytics to clinical development, research, or portfolio decision-making.
• Deep subject matter expertise in Inflammation & Immunology dermatology.
• Experience leading organizational change management or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience with real-world data, digital endpoints, and decentralized or innovative clinical trial technologies.
• Experience in portfolio strategy, resource planning, financial modeling, or business analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior leadership role in a highly experienced, complex matrix organization.
• Benefits include a 401(k) plan with hirify.global matching and retirement contributions, paid vacation, holidays, personal days, and paid caregiver, parental, and medical leave.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage are available.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and eligibility.
• Participation is available in hirify.global’s Global Performance Plan and share-based long-term incentive program.