Lead - Clinical Strategy & AI Safety
Autonomize
Software Engineering, Data Science
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Dec 22, 2025
About Autonomize AI
Autonomize AI is revolutionizing healthcare by streamlining knowledge workflows with AI. We reduce administrative burdens and elevate outcomes, empowering professionals to focus on what truly matters — improving lives. We're growing fast and looking for bold, driven leaders to join us.
The Opportunity
We are hiring a Lead of Clinical Strategy & AI Safety to lead clinical integrity, product validation, and enterprise adoption of our AI solutions. You will be the driving force behind our clinical roadmap, responsible AI guardrails, and end-to-end execution.
You’ll build and lead a clinical team, shape our platform with Product and Engineering, and engage deeply with enterprise clients to ensure trust and adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical AI Strategy & Product Leadership
- Define and champion the clinical vision across Autonomize’s platform.
- Collaborate with Product & Engineering to ensure AI outputs are safe, usable, and aligned to payer/provider workflows.
- Lead clinical validation and QA: build review protocols, edge-case escalation, and internal feedback loops.
- Translate clinical reality into scalable AI features, ontologies, and documentation logic.
Team Building & Leadership
- Hire, mentor, and lead a top-tier clinical org including reviewers, informaticists, and strategic advisors.
- Instill Autonomize values: ownership, clarity, and final-mile execution.
- Build feedback loops that elevate product and customer success.
Enterprise Enablement & Change Management
- Partner with Customer Success to lead clinical enablement and drive adoption at scale.
- Serve as the trusted clinical executive for enterprise customers — resolving concerns, accelerating value, and championing transformation.
- Architect training, rollout, and change playbooks that improve speed to trust.
Responsible AI & Governance
- Ensure our AI solutions uphold clinical safety, fairness, and compliance.
- Build and continuously evolve a robust Clinical Governance Framework — including internal guidelines, model audits, and partner collaboration.
- Stay ahead of payer policy shifts, regulatory updates (e.g. CMS, NCQA, FDA), and ethical AI standards.
External Thought Leadership & Market Impact
- Represent Autonomize externally — on panels, in whitepapers, and with partners.
- Contribute to thought leadership on responsible clinical AI, healthtech adoption, and innovation at scale.
- Build credibility with enterprise clients, regulators, and the broader healthcare ecosystem.
Qualifications
- MD, DO, or equivalent with 10+ years of clinical practice — ideally across provider and payer environments.
- Strong background in utilization management, care coordination, documentation, and health system workflows.
- Proven success launching digital health, health-IT, or AI-driven solutions in enterprise settings.
- Demonstrated leadership in change management — from stakeholder alignment to behavior change and adoption.
- Deep familiarity with responsible AI practices, clinical QA, and emerging regulatory standards.
- Clear communicator and cross-functional leader — able to align technical, clinical, and commercial perspectives.
- Startup grit: comfortable with ambiguity, velocity, and end-to-end ownership.
Bonus Points
- Experience commercializing clinical AI/ML solutions.
- Familiarity with FHIR, SNOMED, ICD-10, CPT, and claims-based documentation.
- Background in clinical informatics or NLP.
What We Offer
- A chance to make a real impact in the future of healthcare
- Autonomy, ownership, and the ability to chart your own growth path
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance
- Retirement plans (401k), disability insurance, employee assistance programs
How to Apply
Send your resume and a brief cover letter to careers@autonomize.ai explaining why you're the right partner for this mission.