Clinical Specialist - Behavioural Health

Microsoft; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a clinician specialized in behavioral health to contribute to the Microsoft Health AI team. This role involves shaping generative AI products for mental health, collaborating across teams, and ensuring ethical standards in technology application. Ideal candidates hold a clinical psychology or medical degree with relevant experience in health tech. Join a mission-driven team to transform health and wellness strategies through innovation.

Qualifications

• Clinical Psychology or Medical Degree with postgraduate experience in behavioral health.
• Experience in health tech or high-impact research in behavioral health and technology.

Responsibilities

• Shape the direction of generative AI products for behavioral health.
• Drive the development of generative AI systems in behavioral health.
• Collaborate with clinicians and researchers on product development.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Experience in behavioral/mental health

Research in health tech

Collaboration skills

Presentation skills

Education

Clinical Psychology or Medical Degree

Higher degree (e.g. Masters or PhD)

Job description

At Microsoft AI, our health team is on a mission to help millions of users better understand and proactively manage their health and wellbeing. We’re responsible for ensuring that Microsoft AI’s models and services are useful, trusted and safe across diverse health journeys. For this role the Microsoft Health AI team is looking for a clinician with an expertise in behavioural health who is excited about contributing to the next generation of systems that will transform the field.

Across all our hires, it’s important for colleagues to share our enthusiasm about the role of technology and AI in health and healthcare, but also appreciate the challenges and risks of delivering effective solutions in a complex and safety critical space. By design we will remain a lean founding team (albeit within a much larger org), and as such you will need to be highly self-sufficient, and be able to span from high level strategy through to ground-level execution on a wide range of tasks. This also means you will play a major role in cultivating and promoting a positive team culture.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As an early employee in the Microsoft Health AI team you will be someone who:

• Is passionate about shaping the direction and strategy of consumer generative AI products with regards to supporting better behavioural/mental health
• Has a product-minded, creative, and entrepreneurial approach to their work.
• Has a deep interest in generative AI and the implications and opportunities for behavioural health.
• Can independently work to drive the development and evaluate generative AI systems in the behavioural health space.
• Contributes to safety, ethics, and privacy policies.
• Collaborates with and bridges the gap between clinicians, researchers, product, engineering, and partnership teams.
• Identifies gaps and determines which tools, technologies, and methods to incorporate to ensure quality and scientific rigour.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Clinical Psychology or Medical Degree with associated postgraduate clinical experience in behavioural/mental health
• Experience working in health tech OR track record of high impact research at the intersection of behavioural health and technology

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Higher degree (e.g. Masters or PhD) in related field
• Track record of high impact academic publications
• Ability to produce high quality written and presentation materials with excellent attention to detail
• Strong collaboration, communication and presentation skills
• Work at high speed with autonomy in a rapidly changing environment
• Experience of working with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)