Director, Clinical Operations

Summary

Join MindMed, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, as the Director of Clinical Operations. You will be primarily responsible for overseeing all early and late-phase trials, providing operational expertise, and guiding junior team members. This role demands global trial-level oversight of external service providers, ensuring successful delivery within budget and regulatory compliance. You will manage trial operational plans, budgets, and contracts, while mitigating risks and escalating issues to the Senior Director. The position requires strong leadership, financial management, and team-building skills. Compensation includes a competitive base pay, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• BS degree or equivalent required, preferably in Life Sciences (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy)
• Minimum of 8 years clinical trial experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO
• Experience leading Global Early and/or Late Phase trials, ideally in the psychiatric space
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 15-20% of the time, defined by business needs
• Requires clinical research operational knowledge, project planning/management, communication and presentation skills. Must have the ability to manage all aspects of execution of a clinical trial. Experience managing or leading global or regional teams in a virtual environment is required. Strong expertise in vendor management required
• Must possess excellent leadership skills and proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness. Excellent decision-making, analytical and strong financial management skills are essential to this position. Operates and executes with limited supervision. Experience mentoring/coaching others. Ability to support and participate in the hiring, training, development and evaluation of staff on a regular basis

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all trial level operational oversight and leadership of the Clinical Operations assigned trial leads
• Responsible for implementing the tracking of project deliverables & timelines at the trial level, including timely escalation of risk to trial deliverables and milestones to the Senior Director of Clinical Operations
• Ensures escalation of identified risks to the Senior Director and deploys timely mitigation strategies at the trial level
• Provides guidance and oversight of all trial budgets, ensuring accurate trial budget management by the assigned Clinical Operations trial leads; responsible for reporting all trial budget updates, inclusive of risks, to the Senior Director
• Ensures that environmental analysis, protocol feasibility and country & site selection process is conducted within timelines. Accountable to drive the final study placement and ensure alignment with and communication to the involved stakeholders
• Is accountable for trial-level oversight of all external service providers used for all clinical trials for both in-house and outsourced studies; and responsible for timely escalation of issues to the Senior Director
• Accountable that the trial(s) is operationalized in compliance with global health authority regulations and guidelines and internal operating procedures and processes
• Accountable for the management of Health Authority inspections and internal QA audits
• Responsible to ensure transparent status reporting information to relevant key stake holders and the Senior Director
• Accountable to drive lessons learned initiatives at trial level during and after trial milestone completion; accountable for developing subsequent issue resolution and process improvements as required

Preferred Qualifications

Other relevant experiences and skills may be considered by the hiring manager when considering the candidate’s eligibility

Benefits

• 100% paid health benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision for you and your dependents
• 401(k) program with company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible time off
• Generous parental leave and some fun fringe perks!