Strategic Project Lead - Healthcare

About the role

The Strategic Project Lead will manage complex medical AI data programs from solution design through delivery. This role bridges customer objectives with clinical expertise and Appen's global delivery capabilities to ensure high-quality data outcomes. The position involves establishing standards for data design and evaluation while driving repeatable methodologies for healthcare AI projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex medical AI data programs from solution design through delivery.
• Translate customer objectives into clear medical data strategies and specifications.
• Establish standards for data design, evaluation, and delivery.
• Develop repeatable approaches and methodologies for healthcare AI programs.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across customer and internal delivery teams.

Required skills

• Project management
• Clinical practice
• Stakeholder management
• Medical research
• Life sciences

Nice to have

• Team management
• Healthcare data privacy
• AI governance
• Medical dataset development
• Annotation guidelines
• Clinical taxonomies

Qualifications

• 2+ years in clinical practice, healthcare, medical research, or life sciences

About the Company

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, specializing in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition.