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Alertive

Clinical Product Director

RemoteUnited Kingdom only
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No BS summary

Clinician with frontline NHS experience sought for Clinical Product Director role. Must understand hospital operations and acute communication breakdowns. Will translate clinical reality into product decisions, own the roadmap, and drive clinical adoption. Requires medical degree, GMC registration, emergency medicine experience in NHS, and 2-5 years in healthtech startup. Strong communication, structured thinking, and tech product user skills needed.

Core skills

clinical product roadmapclinical governanceNHS procurement

Required skills

GMC registrationlicence to practiseclinical revalidationCPD

Optional skills

SaMD

Required languages

English

What you'll do

  • Shape the clinical product roadmap
  • Be the primary clinical voice in our product process, working closely with the Chief Delivery Officer as well as the Chief Technology Officer and reporting directly to the CEO.
  • Ensure all our features, workflows and design decisions are grounded in clinical reality.
  • Translate frontline clinical experience into clear, evidence-based product requirements
  • Own the product roadmap, prioritising initiatives based on patient safety impact, clinical adoption, and commercial opportunity
  • Review feature specifications and user stories through a clinical governance lens before they enter development
  • Identify gaps in our current offering that represent genuine unmet clinical need and make the case for addressing them
  • Drive clinical adoption and customer success
  • Partner with our Delivery teams during implementations to ensure clinical workflows are configured correctly from day one
  • Support the development of Alertive communities, facilitating the sharing of best practice frameworks and SOPs
  • Work closely with customers to ensure they realise the full benefit of Alertive
  • Gather structured clinical feedback from live trusts and feed it back into the product cycle
  • Act as a point of escalation for complex clinical queries from our customer base
  • Lead on clinical safety and governance
  • Act as primary point of contact for our clinical safety consultancy and working alongside engineering to ensure risk is understood and managed appropriately.
  • Act as the internal expert on clinical workflow, escalation pathways, and safe messaging practice
  • Engage with clinical safety incidents and near-misses, translating learnings into product improvements
  • Be our leading clinical voice
  • Support the sales and commercial team in high-value clinical conversations with medical directors, CNIOs, chief nurses, and clinical governance leads
  • Present at NHS conferences, clinical networks, and industry events as a credible advocate for Alertive's approach
  • Build and maintain relationships with clinical champions across our customer base
  • Contribute to case studies, white papers, and clinical content that builds Alertive's evidence base and market credibility
  • Work closely with the wider team
  • Contribute to strategic decisions, commercial conversations and the wider direction of the business, with your clinical perspective shaping how we think across the company.
  • Managing a small team of 2-4 people to start across product and customer success.

What they require

  • Clinical background & qualifications
  • MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent medical degree with full GMC registration and licence to practise in good standing
  • Substantive experience as a clinician in emergency medicine within an NHS Trust — you understand the acute environment, the pressure of time-critical decisions, and what poor communication costs
  • Active clinical revalidation and commitment to ongoing CPD
  • Healthtech & startup experience
  • 2–5 years experience working within a healthtech startup - you understand what it means to move fast, work with limited resources, and build something from the ground up
  • Demonstrable experience contributing to product development, clinical feature definition, or clinical governance in a digital health or SaMD environment
  • Comfortable working across product, engineering, and commercial functions - you know how to translate clinical need into language that resonates with each team
  • Experience navigating the NHS procurement and clinical evaluation landscape is a strong advantage
  • Skills and capabilities
  • Able to write clearly and concisely - clinical specs, user stories, policy documents, and external content
  • Strong communicator and presenter, equally comfortable with a clinical audience and a commercial one
  • Structured thinker who can hold complexity without losing sight of the practical outcome
  • Comfortable with data - able to interpret usage analytics, clinical outcomes data, and product metrics
  • A sophisticated user of tech products who would be able to demo products to clinical and commercial audiences
  • You've felt the frustration of communication failures in a clinical setting and you're motivated to fix them
  • You move fast but never carelessly. You know that in healthcare, speed and rigour aren't opposites
  • You thrive in environments where things aren't fully defined yet. You find that energising, not unsettling
  • You're a natural connector, comfortable in a board meeting with an NHS executive one day, and reviewing a product backlog the next
  • You have high standards and low ego. You give feedback well and receive it even better
  • You genuinely believe that thoughtfully designed technology can make frontline care safer and you want to be part of building it
  • We support maintaining a fractional clinical practice where desired

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation for a Series A Company with equity participation as part of the package.
  • Real ownership, not just a job title — and a team that trusts you to lead your work without needing to justify every decision.
  • Direct access to leadership, fast decisions and the knowledge that your work shapes the product.
  • We support flexible working as a default, not a perk.
  • Competitive benefits package including private health insurance, 26 days annual leave allowance, enhanced parental leave, 5% pension contribution and the kind of equity participation that means you'll genuinely share in what we're building together.
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