Remote | Strategic Project Lead, MD/Health — $400,000–$550,000/year

We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced healthcare and medical professional with strong leadership, project execution, data operations, and domain expertise to lead complex initiatives supporting advanced AI organisations and healthcare-focused data workflows.

The role combines medical-domain knowledge with end-to-end project leadership. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer needs into clear project specifications, design and improve healthcare-focused data pipelines, coordinate Operations and Health/Medicine subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders. An MD or equivalent medical degree is required.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Project Ownership

• Own complex projects from initial framing and scoping through execution and delivery
• Translate strategic objectives into structured project plans
• Define milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and quality expectations
• Maintain accountability for project progress and outcomes
• Resolve blockers quickly and maintain execution momentum

Healthcare & Medical Workflow Design

• Translate customer requirements into actionable specifications for Health and Medicine workflows
• Design project structures suited to clinical, medical, and healthcare-related tasks
• Incorporate domain expertise into project requirements and evaluation criteria
• Identify appropriate quality standards for medical and healthcare deliverables
• Continuously improve workflows for accuracy, usability, and scalability

Data Pipeline & Operations Development

• Design and refine domain-specific data pipelines
• Coordinate human-data operations supporting healthcare and medical projects
• Improve workflow efficiency and operational scalability
• Establish processes for quality review and delivery
• Identify operational bottlenecks and implement practical improvements

Medical Domain Coordination

• Work closely with physicians, healthcare professionals, and medical subject-matter experts
• Align domain contributors with project objectives
• Ensure appropriate medical expertise is incorporated into specifications and quality standards
• Review project deliverables for domain relevance and accuracy
• Facilitate effective collaboration between Operations and Health/Medicine teams

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Own client communication throughout project delivery
• Translate complex or ambiguous requests into clear operational plans
• Maintain concise, direct, and consistent communication
• Set expectations regarding scope, quality, timing, and delivery
• Communicate risks, progress, decisions, and next steps clearly

Team Leadership

• Manage Health/Medicine domain experts and project leads
• Establish clear responsibilities and execution expectations
• Maintain a high-quality and accountable delivery environment
• Provide direction and feedback to project contributors
• Support rapid deployment of expert teams for new initiatives

Delivery Management

• Set delivery milestones and maintain a tight execution cadence
• Track progress against project commitments
• Identify and resolve blockers
• Maintain visibility into delivery risks and priorities
• Drive consistent follow-through across contributors and stakeholders

Internal Reporting & Communication

• Provide daily internal updates on project status
• Communicate progress, blockers, risks, and explicit next steps
• Maintain documentation required for operational continuity
• Ensure ownership and decisions are clearly recorded
• Support alignment across domain, operations, and project teams

AI & Human-Data Operations

• Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, or human-generated data
• Coordinate expert-driven healthcare and medical data workflows
• Apply quality-control principles to human-in-the-loop processes
• Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems
• Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives

Ideal Profile

• MD or equivalent medical degree required
• 2+ years of professional experience in medicine, healthcare, clinical practice, medical research, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or healthcare-related initiatives
• Strong healthcare and medical-domain knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects from ambiguity through delivery
• Strong project-management and execution skills
• Experience coordinating cross-functional or expert teams
• Exceptional stakeholder-management capability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with senior healthcare and medical experts
• Strong attention to detail and operational discipline
• Comfortable making decisions and progressing work in ambiguous environments
• Strong ownership and urgency
• Ability to translate customer requirements into clear project specifications
• Experience with clinical workflows is advantageous
• Familiarity with medical research or healthcare data is valuable
• Experience managing healthcare, technical, or data-intensive projects is beneficial
• Experience with AI/ML organisations, AI labs, data annotation, or evaluation projects is advantageous
• Familiarity with data pipelines, AI-training workflows, and human-in-the-loop operations is valuable
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and execution-focused environment

Engagement Details

• Full-time engagement
• Fully remote
• Compensation: $400,000–$550,000/year
• Work will involve strategic project leadership, healthcare and medical workflows, stakeholder management, data operations, human-data pipelines, project delivery, and cross-functional coordination
• An MD or equivalent medical degree is required
• Strong Health/Medicine domain expertise combined with operational execution is central to this role
• Responsibilities may span clinical workflows, medical research, healthcare data, AI-training operations, expert evaluation, and related project environments
• The role requires regular communication with customers, Health/Medicine domain experts, Operations teams, and project leads
• Project scope, priorities, customer requirements, and workflows may evolve based on business needs
• Work must be completed without using confidential, proprietary, identifiable patient information, protected health information, regulated medical data, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any employer, healthcare organisation, patient, research institution, client, or other third party

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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