Senior Medical Device Regulatory Policy Lead

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist to drive advocacy for medical device features. You will facilitate executive-level agency relationships, prepare leadership for high-level engagements, and represent Google’s regulatory positions in industry coalitions and standards bodies.

You will collaborate with Clinical, Engineering and Government Affairs teams to translate global health policy into proactive product guidance that enables compliant market access.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, Software, Law, Public Health, Public Policy, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of professional experience in regulatory affairs.
• Experience with medical device standards and SaMD frameworks, and monitoring regulatory developments.
• Ability to lead government agency engagement beyond submission advocacy strategies.
• Experience working with clinical, quality, and engineering teams to align product strategy with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate engagements with Indian health authorities like CDSCO and represent Google's regulatory positions at high-level meetings.
• Monitor India’s legislative and regulatory developments related to digital health and SaMD.
• Represent Google in India industry associations and standards bodies to build policy coalitions.
• Liaise with internal teams to align device feature claims with clinical evidence and support regulatory authorizations.
• Provide regulatory policy counsel to leadership and align India policy with global digital health launches.

Skills

Regulatory strategy

Government engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Policy analysis

AI policy

SaMD familiarity

Education

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Regulatory databases

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India.

Minimum qualifications

• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, Software, Law, Public Health, Public Policy, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of professional experience in regulatory affairs.
• Experience with medical device standards and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) frameworks, and monitoring regulatory developments and composing authoritative policy briefs.
• Experience to lead government agency engagement outside of submission advocacy strategies and educate global health authorities on modern oversight frameworks for AI.
• Experience working cross-functionally with clinical, quality, and engineering teams to align product strategy with regulatory requirements.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in engaging with Regulatory agencies outside of submission.
• Experience within digital health or AI policy and understanding of generative models in clinical settings.
• Previous participation and proven effectiveness in international regulatory/industry forums/standards organizations.
• Track record of contributing to international standards (ISO/IEC, AAMI).

About the job

As a Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist reporting directly to the Senior Director of Digital Health Strategy, you will help drive Google’s advocacy in India for medical device features. Serving as an essential partner and a catalyst, you will facilitate executive-level agency relationships, prepare leadership for high-level engagements, and represent company technical positions in industry coalitions, public consultations, and standards bodies. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across Clinical, Engineering, and Government Affairs to translate evolving global health policy into clear, proactive product guidance that accelerates safe, compliant market access.

Google for Health is a company-wide effort to help billions of people be healthier. We work toward this direction by meeting people in their everyday moments and empowering them to stay healthy and partnering with care teams to provide more accurate and accessible care. Our teams are applying our expertise and technology to improve health outcomes globally – with high-quality information and tools to help people manage their health and wellbeing, solutions to transform care delivery, research to catalyze the use of artificial intelligence for the screening and diagnosis of disease, and data and insights to the public health community.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate engagements with Indian health authorities such as the CDSCO, supporting leadership during high-level meetings and representing Google's regulatory positions where executive presence is needed.
• Monitor and analyze India’s legislative, statutory, and medical device regulatory developments related to digital health, healthcare AI, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
• Represent Google across key India industry trade associations and standards bodies, including CTA Health, WHO-India, APAC med, and ISO committees, and other advocacy groups to build collaborative policy coalitions.
• Liaise with internal engineering, clinical, quality, and government affairs teams to align device feature claims with necessary clinical evidence and support India marketing authorizations.
• Provide regulatory policy counsel to leadership and collaborate with regional leads to ensure India policy initiatives harmonize with global digital health launches.

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