Senior Clinical Development Specialist

Sword Health is transforming healthcare with its AI Care platform, offering world-class care anytime, anywhere, and significantly reducing costs. Starting with pain care, Sword has expanded into women’s health, movement health, and mental health, serving over 700,000 members and 1,000+ enterprise clients. This role seeks a dynamic clinical professional to support the central Clinical Development Team, driving strategy and execution of clinical initiatives across all care verticals. It requires clinical expertise, a product-oriented mindset, and a focus on innovation in digital health.

Must Have

• You should know how to design and implement AI-powered workflows or automations that meaningfully improve efficiency and outcomes.
• Clinical background with formal education in Medicine (required)
• Strong clinical reasoning and evidence-based approach, but with a knack for challenging the status status quo
• Product-oriented mindset, with an ability to understand what would work in the real world (vs an idealist scenario)
• High sense of urgency, proactiveness and ownership
• Able to deliver high quality work in a short period of time
• Effective communicator and able to manage several stakeholders
• Highly proficient in English (written and spoken).

Good to Have

• Additional training in Healthcare Management, Public Health, or Business Administration (MBA/Post-grad).
• Experience or foundational knowledge in Digital Health or Artificial Intelligence.
• Proficiency in software tools for data analysis, reporting, and task organization.
• Experience conducting bibliographic research to support clinical strategy.

Perks & Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Meal allowance
• Equity shares
• Remote work allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home
• Discretionary vacation
• Snacks and beverages
• English class

Sword Health is shifting healthcare from human-first to AI-first through its AI Care platform, making world-class healthcare available anytime, anywhere, while significantly reducing costs for payers, self-insured employers, national health systems, and other healthcare organizations. Sword began by reinventing pain care with AI at its core, and has since expanded into women’s health, movement health, and more recently mental health. Since 2020, more than 700,000 members across three continents have completed 10 million AI sessions, helping Sword's 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid over $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies and over 44 patents, Sword Health has raised more than $500 million from leading investors, including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Transformation Capital, and Founders Fund. Learn more at www.swordhealth.com.

We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking clinical professional to support the central Clinical Development Team in driving the strategy and execution of clinical initiatives across all verticals of care. This role requires a unique blend of clinical expertise and savvyness with a product-oriented mindset, operating at the intersection of clinical excellence, data-driven decision-making, and innovation in digital health.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the central Clinical Development team managing daily operations, priorities, and execution across clinical teams.
• Work cross-functionally with Clinical Research, AI, Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Growth to ensure alignment on clinical-related initiatives across all verticals.
• Collaborate with other clinicians and internal teams in the research, design, and refinement of AI health products.
• Oversee quality and scalability of care delivery in partnership with the Clinical Operations teams.
• Partner with Data and Research teams to analyze outcomes, measure impact, and identify areas for improvement.
• Ensure all clinical projects are tracked, organized, and completed efficiently, acting with a project management mindset to prevent delays or gaps.
• Contribute to the development of documentation, communication materials, and clinical guidelines.

What you need to have

• You should know how to design and implement AI-powered workflows or automations that meaningfully improve efficiency and outcomes.
• Clinical background with formal education in Medicine (required)
• Strong clinical reasoning and evidence-based approach, but with a knack for challenging the status quo
• Product-oriented mindset, with an ability to understand what would work in the real world (vs an idealist scenario)
• High sense of urgency, proactiveness and ownership
• Able to deliver high quality work in a short period of time
• Effective communicator and able to manage several stakeholders
• Highly proficient in English (written and spoken).

What we would love to see

• Additional training in Healthcare Management, Public Health, or Business Administration (MBA/Post-grad).
• Experience or foundational knowledge in Digital Health or Artificial Intelligence.
• Proficiency in software tools for data analysis, reporting, and task organization.
• Experience conducting bibliographic research to support clinical strategy.

This range includes base, variable and equity.

These compensation bands are just the starting point. Once someone joins and proves they’re outlier talent, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.

Our job titles may span more than one career level. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary and any potential variable, bonus or sales incentives, and the Company’s estimation of the value of private company stock options, if applicable. The pay range is subject to change, future value of company stock options is not guaranteed, and compensation may be modified in the future. In addition to our total compensation, Sword offers a number of benefits as listed below.

Portugal - Sword Benefits & Perks:

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Meal allowance
• Equity shares
• Remote work allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home
• Discretionary vacation
• Snacks and beverages
• English class

Note: Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.

Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.