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About Power
At Power, we believe every patient should have easy access to clinical trials as a care option. Our platform connects patients to research opportunities quickly, transparently, and compassionately helping sponsors and sites accelerate enrollment while improving diversity and retention.
Were growing fast and looking for a Director of Clinical Operations to lead the team that works directly with sponsors and sites to ensure recruitment success. This is a high-impact role where you'll be the bridge between our technology, our customers, and the patients we serve.
What Youll Do
At Power, we believe every patient should have easy access to clinical trials as a care option. Our platform connects patients to research opportunities quickly, transparently, and compassionately helping sponsors and sites accelerate enrollment while improving diversity and retention.
Were growing fast and looking for a Director of Clinical Operations to lead the team that works directly with sponsors and sites to ensure recruitment success. This is a high-impact role where you'll be the bridge between our technology, our customers, and the patients we serve.
What Youll Do
- Lead and grow the Clinical Operations team responsible for executing patient recruitment programs for Phase 2/3 interventional studies across multiple therapeutic areas.
- Serve as the primary strategic partner to sponsors and sites, ensuring alignment on goals, timelines, and quality standards.
- Oversee the design, launch, and optimization of recruitment campaigns, ensuring targets for enrollment, diversity, and site engagement are met or exceeded.
- Develop operational playbooks and processes to scale quality, compliance, and security without sacrificing patient experience.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Marketing teams to ensure continuous improvement in recruitment performance.
- Monitor KPIs, budgets, and timelines to proactively address risks and remove roadblocks .
- Represent the voice of the customer internally, advocating for site and sponsor needs in product roadmap discussions.
- 6 years of experience in clinical operations, clinical trial management, or patient recruitment (biotech, pharma, CRO, or site network).
- Proven track record of leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.
- Analytical rigor: you aren't afraid of crunching data for your own insights, creating your own dashboards, or cracking open a SQL query
- Deep understanding of site workflows, sponsor priorities, and recruitment challenges in clinical trials.
- Strong operational mindset able to design scalable systems while maintaining attention to detail.
- Exceptional communication skills and a consultative approach to customer relationships.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and thriving in a high-growth startup environment .
- Mission-driven culture focused on making clinical trials more accessible for everyone.
- High-growth environment with opportunities to shape the companys future.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
