Associate Director, Medical Programs

Nucs AI • Berlin, MA

8d • Remote

About The Position

Nucs AI is building a structured medical programs function to support our expanding portfolio of clinical collaborations, validation studies, and regulatory evidence generation. This is a new role designed to own the operational execution of our medical programs—from clinical study coordination and site management to data collection, protocol compliance, and cross-functional delivery.
You’ll be the operational backbone of the medical team, ensuring clinical initiatives move forward on schedule and to specification. Working closely with the Medical Director, CMO, and Medical Affairs Lead, you’ll translate clinical strategy into executed programs—managing timelines, coordinating with clinical sites, overseeing data workflows, and supporting regulatory documentation.
This role is ideal for someone with clinical operations experience who thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and wants to play a central role in how a clinical-stage AI company delivers evidence and builds trust with the medical community.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in clinical operations, medical programs management, or clinical research coordination
• Strong background in clinical study management: protocol execution, site coordination, data management, and regulatory compliance
• Experience managing multi-site clinical studies or investigator-led research programs
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to manage multiple concurrent programs with competing timelines
• Strong written communication skills; able to produce clear study documentation, reports, and regulatory supporting materials
• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, public health, clinical research, or related field

Nice To Haves

• Experience in medical imaging, radiology, nuclear medicine, or oncology clinical research
• Familiarity with AI/ML clinical validation or SaMD regulatory pathways
• ACRP or SOCRA certification, or equivalent clinical research credentials
• Experience with electronic data capture systems, clinical trial management systems, or imaging core lab workflows
• Master’s degree in clinical research, public health, or related discipline
• Experience at a MedTech startup or early-stage clinical-AI company

Responsibilities

• Clinical Study Operations & Coordination
• Manage day-to-day execution of clinical validation studies, investigator-led research, and data collection initiatives
• Coordinate with clinical sites on study protocols, patient enrollment, data submission timelines, and compliance requirements
• Maintain study trackers, timelines, and milestone dashboards; surface risks and dependencies proactively
• Oversee site onboarding, training, and ongoing communication for multi-site studies
• Data Management & Quality
• Manage clinical data collection workflows, ensuring data integrity, completeness, and traceability
• Coordinate data transfer, de-identification, and integration with engineering and ML teams for model training and validation
• Support development and maintenance of clinical data agreements, IRB submissions, and ethical approvals
• Track and resolve data quality issues across sites and studies
• Regulatory & Documentation Support
• Prepare and maintain clinical study documentation: protocols, informed consent forms, study reports, and site files
• Support regulatory submissions with clinical evidence summaries, study narratives, and data packages
• Ensure all clinical programs comply with applicable regulatory requirements, GCP guidelines, and internal QMS processes
• Cross-Functional Program Management
• Serve as the primary operational liaison between the medical team, product, engineering, and quality functions
• Coordinate medical team inputs into product development, feature validation, and clinical feedback loops
• Support preparation of scientific communications, abstracts, and presentations with clinical data and study results
• Manage vendor relationships for clinical services (CROs, imaging core labs, data management platforms)

Benefits

• Mission with real impact – Your work directly improves how cancer patients are diagnosed and treated.
• Ground-floor opportunity – Early-stage company, meaningful equity, and outsized influence on the direction we take.
• World-class collaborators – Work alongside leading oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and AI researchers globally.
• Massive market tailwinds – Radioligand therapy and AI-driven oncology are multi-billion dollar growth markets.
• Autonomy and flexibility – Remote-first, flexible working. We hire great people and trust them to deliver.
• Equity upside – Competitive equity package. We’re building something big and want you to share in it.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level