Senior Director of Clinical Operations

🍊Our mission

Great science regularly stalls in the clinic, not because the science is wrong, but because the company behind it lacks the capital, infrastructure, or focus to take it all the way through. Today’s clinical-stage biopharma model is broken, and as a result, promising treatments never reach patients.

Our mission is to fix this: we’re building the next generation of biopharma by in-licensing clinical-stage therapeutic assets and developing them through Lindus Health’s integrated, technology-first clinical trial infrastructure. We’re a new initiative, but we’re building on a proven foundation—the same infrastructure that has delivered 82% of Lindus Health’s sponsor trials on or ahead of timeline, across 40+ completed trials across the US and Europe.

We’re in-licensing 5-7 clinical-stage, typically Phase 2-ready assets, funded directly from Lindus Health’s balance sheet. We’re targeting deal close on our first assets through 2026, with first trials launching in H1 2027.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Director of Clinical Operations to take personal ownership of the clinical delivery of one of our five in-licensed assets, running the trial from start-up through to close-out.

You'll be accountable for that trial's clinical and regulatory execution, its quality, and its delivery on time and on budget, working closely day-to-day with the Clinical Program Manager running it and stepping in wherever a call needs to be made, whether that's on safety, protocol interpretation, or trial methodology. Alongside your own asset, you'll bring that hands-on delivery experience to the wider portfolio, acting as a senior voice on our SOPs, quality bar, and systems, and as a source of counsel for other trial teams.

You'll collaborate closely with members across the business, including our Chief Medical Officer, our ClinOps team across five assets, our Director of Quality, and our Product team, and you'll report to our VP Operations.

We'd like to hear from you if...

• You have high agency and a bias for action
• You are passionate and curious about our mission; changing how the healthcare industry operates and how new health treatments are developed
• You want to learn what life is like at a high-growth, mission-driven, VC-funded startup

You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the below, we want you to apply:

• You have 15+ years in clinical operations, with genuine hands-on delivery across multiple Phase 2 drug trials.
• Experience with complex neurology trials in chronic indications, ideally in Parkinson’s disease
• Real, first-hand experience making clinical, quality, and safety judgment calls in real time across a range of trials.
• A track record of senior review and sign-off on essential trial documents - monitoring plans, RAMPs, protocol deviations, eTMF readiness.
• A proportionate, risk-based approach to clinical oversight - you focus on what's actually risky, not on ticking every box.
• A track record of contributing to or leading SOP and process design at a portfolio or function level, not just following processes someone else wrote.
• Broad experience across trial types, phases, and therapeutic areas, with the judgment to advise operators more junior than you without taking the decision away from them.
• Comfortable shaping the tools you work in, not just using them - you've influenced how trial systems (EDC, CTMS, eTMF) get built, not only adapted to what's there.
• Genuinely energized by a portfolio-wide authority role - shaping safety, process, and clinical judgment across every asset - and equally happy to get hands-on running a trial of your own once you're ramped in.
• Experience across multiple regulatory jurisdictions is a strong plus, with FDA preferred

• Focus area 1: Clinical Operations Leadership on an Asset
  • Own the delivery of the trial for one of our assets - accountable for its clinical and regulatory execution, its quality, and its delivery on time and on budget.
  • Work closely with and line-manage the Clinical Program Manager running the trial day-to-day.
  • Proactively spot and mitigate risks by contributing to the asset's clinical development plan, maintaining good collaboration with Programme Directors in the Corp Dev team.
• Focus area 2: Clinical Operations SME
  • Build clinical operations and regulatory capability as we move into more complex, FDA-facing trials - raising the bar on monitoring, oversight, and quality across the Clinical Operations team.
  • Accountable for and input into ClinOps SOP and process design across the portfolio, partnering closely with our Director of Quality.
  • Work closely with tech and product teams to input into Citrus and other tools and system design from a clinical delivery perspective.
  • Guide, mentor, and support professional development of the wider ClinOps team.
• Senior authority on operational and quality decisions and sign-off across every trial in the LTx portfolio, covering safety, trial design, and proportionality, plus sign-off on essential trial documentation and quality issues. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional leads to solve issues that arise.

Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world's most broken industries.

• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options
• 27 days annual leave in addition to 11 National Holidays
• Health insurance coverage through our PEO Trinet
• $40 monthly wellness allowance
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver and 6 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver
• $2,000 Learning and Development allowance each year
• Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually
• Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl
• Monthly lunch voucher for our remote teams
• Charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust