VP of Clinical Solutions

Unlearn.AI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 230,000 - 360,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity participation

100% company-covered medical, dental,

vision insurance plans

401k plan with matching

Flexible PTO plus company holidays

Annual company-wide break December 24–

January 1

Commuter benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Unlearn is seeking a VP of Clinical Solutions to lead a scientific delivery organization of biostatisticians, data scientists, and clinicians. You will drive rigour, governance, and excellence across client-facing studies while scaling delivery and partnering with BD, Product, Engineering, and Quality.

You will guide teams with hands-on leadership, ensure clinical development standards are met, and translate complex analytics into clear strategic recommendations for sponsors and regulators.

Qualifications

10+ years leading scientific or analytical delivery in clinical development.
Experience at Senior Director or VP level overseeing multi-disciplinary teams.
Proven track record leading data analytics, biostatistics, data science for biopharma.
ML delivery experience is a plus, but strong grounding in quantitative methods is essential.
Strong operational skills managing complex, concurrent delivery portfolios.

Responsibilities

Lead the scientific delivery organization and ensure quality, timeliness, and scientific rigor of customer-facing work across multiple projects.
Partner with Business Development, Product, Engineering, R&D, and Quality Management to shape scopes of work and resolve blockers.
Serve as a senior scientific voice with customers and establish credibility of Unlearn's science.
Develop technical team leaders through mentoring and career growth.
Establish governance standards and quality frameworks for analyses and ML applications.
Own delivery operations at scale: staffing, capacity planning, and prioritization to manage portfolio growth.
Report to leadership on delivery health, capacity, and risk, scaling commitments responsibly.
Build systems and delivery models that maintain quality while growing.

Skills

Scientific leadership

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery governance

Operational planning

Biostatistics knowledge

Data science familiarity

ML delivery

Regulatory experience

Clinical development domain

Education

Advanced degree in a relevant field

Job description

Our Mission and Vision

Unlearn exists to transform clinical development by making every trial smarter. We harness data, AI, and digital twins to enable faster, more robust studies that bring life-saving treatments to patients faster. This mission drives everything we do as we partner with biopharmaceutical companies to redesign how clinical trials are planned, run, and analyzed.

We are defining the future of clinical development with unmatched scientific credibility, replacing uncertainty with AI-powered precision so decisions are clearer and trials are stronger. We don’t just disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, we create lasting change.

We believe AI will define the future of medicine, and we are committed to building that future responsibly, rigorously, and in close collaboration with our partners in clinical development.

About Our Team

Unlearners are ambitious; we aren’t intimidated by big, challenging goals.
Unlearners are disciplined experimenters; we break down our big goals into smaller chunks and meet as often as necessary to track our velocity and iterate quickly.
Unlearners are gritty; we never give up, setbacks just make us try harder.
Unlearners are receptive to new ideas; in fact, we hate being stuck with the status quo
Unlearners are storytellers; sharing information with each other and with the world is super important, too important to be boring. And, last but not least,
Unlearners are team-oriented; we put the mission first, the company second, the team third, and individuals last.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Unlearn was founded in 2017 by a team of world-class machine learning scientists. We have raised venture capital from top tier investors such as Altimeter, Insight Partners, Radical Ventures, 8VC, DCVC, and DCVC Bio, and completed our $50 million Series C in January 2024.

Your Role

Leading Pharma and Biotech companies trust Unlearn to deliver scientifically rigorous work using digital twins on studies where the stakes are high and the timelines are real. A digital twin of a patient is a comprehensive prediction of expected outcomes under a defined standard of care, made by a machine learning model built using our proprietary technology. That work is done by our scientific delivery teams, with expertise spanning biostatistics, data science, clinical science, and machine learning. As the VP of Clinical Solutions, you will lead an organization of scientists and technical leaders across a wide array of active customer projects with different timelines, needs, and opportunities.

This role sits at the intersection of scientific leadership and operational excellence. On one side, you will develop technical teams through hands‑on people leadership, technical governance, and deep domain judgment about what rigorous clinical and scientific delivery work looks like. On the other, you will keep delivery on track across a growing portfolio, resourcing projects effectively as we scale, and partnering across functions to solve problems before they reach customers.

You will report to the COO and be responsible for meeting business goals in Delivery that ensures that Unlearn increases its leadership and reputation as a best-in-class innovator and scientific partner.

Responsibilities

Lead Unlearn's scientific delivery organization and own the quality, timeliness, and scientific rigor of customer-facing delivery work across a portfolio of concurrent projects.
Partner closely with Business Development, Product, Engineering, R&D, and Quality Management to shape scopes of work, resolve cross-functional blockers, feed delivery learnings back into the product, and ensure what we sell is what we can deliver excellently.
Serve as a senior scientific voice with customers: stepping into escalations, building trust with sponsor teams, and representing the credibility of Unlearn's science in clinical development settings.
Develop technical team leaders through direct people leadership, mentorship, and career development.
Establish and uphold technical governance: standards, review practices, and quality frameworks that ensure our statistical analyses, data products, and ML applications meet the bar our customers and regulators expect.
Own delivery operations at scale: project staffing and resourcing, capacity planning, prioritization across competing customer demands, and delivery processes that keep a growing portfolio on track without burning out the team.
Report regularly to company leadership on delivery health, capacity, and portfolio risk; manage the growth of delivery commitments so that we scale ambitiously without over-committing resources, and upscale risks early and transparently.
Build the systems, metrics, and delivery models that maintain quality while we continue to grow.

Requirements

10+ years leading scientific or analytical delivery work in clinical development, with significant experience operating at the Senior Director or VP level with responsibility for multi-disciplinary technical teams.
A track record of leading data analytics, biostatistics, data science, or related delivery organizations serving biopharma customers—for example at real-world data (RWD) companies, CROs, or analytics-driven clinical development partners. Direct ML delivery experience is a plus, but deep respect for and fluency with quantitative methods is essential.
Demonstrated scientific leadership: you have grown individual contributors into technical leaders, and you can provide credible technical guidance and governance across biostatistics, data science, and ML without needing to be the deepest expert in each.
Strong operational skills: you have kept complex, concurrent customer delivery portfolios on track, resourced projects effectively under real constraints, and scaled delivery teams and processes as demand grew.
Domain knowledge of clinical development: study designs, clinical data, sponsor expectations, and the regulatory and evidentiary standards that govern our customers' decisions.
Experience reporting to executive leadership on delivery capacity, growth, and risk: you manage commitments realistically, say no when the math doesn't work, and surface problems early rather than letting them compound.
Comfort operating cross‑functionally with Business Development, Product, Engineering, R&D, Quality Management, and customer stakeholders, and translating fluidly between technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience in growth‑stage or early‑stage companies to build a stronger delivery model while running it.

Benefits & Perks

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