Vice President, Clinical Development Operations at Tempus — Remote

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

The Vice President, Clinical Development Operations provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for the execution of clinical studies dedicated to evidence generation across the Tempus portfolio. This role is primarily responsible for ensuring that all evidence-generating clinical development studies are conducted with the highest standards of quality, on time, within budget, and in full compliance with global regulatory requirements. The VP will focus on driving operational excellence to deliver robust clinical data that supports product validation, regulatory submissions, and clinical evidence goals.

Key Responsibilities Strategic & Clinical Trial Leadership

Overall Study Conduct: Hold primary accountability for the operational planning, management, and execution of clinical trials designed for clinical evidence generation.

Metric-Driven Performance: Drive performance against key trial metrics, including site activation, patient enrollment, data quality, budget adherence, and alignment with corporate goals and regulatory requirements.

Operational Excellence: Develop and implement optimized operational strategies to enhance trial efficiency, reduce complexity, and accelerate data delivery timelines.

Resource & Budget Management: Actively participate in budget planning, financial forecasting, and resource allocation for the evidence generation operations unit to ensure optimal performance.

Clinical Data Integration & Workflow Management

Data Integrity & Flow: Collaborate closely with Biostatistics and Data Management teams to ensure the timely, accurate, and high-quality flow of trial data into the clinical database, facilitating efficient data cleaning, analysis, and database lock.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interact closely and establish seamless workflows with cross-functional leaders to ensure that clinical trial data from all sources is accurately captured and reconciled.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Team Management

Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing operations team capable of managing a focused portfolio of clinical evidence generation studies.

Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as the primary operational leader for evidence generation trial conduct, ensuring tight alignment and communication with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Project Management, and other key stakeholders.

Quality & Regulatory Compliance

GCP Compliance: Ensure all evidence-generation trial activities are conducted in strict accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ICH guidelines, and global regulatory standards.

Inspection Readiness: Maintain a constant state of inspection readiness for all evidence-generation clinical trials and support senior leadership during regulatory authority inspections (e.g., FDA).

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, life sciences, or healthcare discipline required; advanced degree (MS, PhD, PharmD) preferred.

13+ years of progressive clinical trial operations experience within pharma, biotech, or medical device sectors, with a distinct focus on managing trials for clinical evidence generation.

5+ years managing and building high-performing clinical operations teams.

Deep, demonstrable knowledge of GCP, ICH guidelines, and experience defending clinical data/sites during regulatory authority inspections (e.g., FDA).

Proven track record of partnering successfully with Biostatistics, Data Management, and Medical Directors to achieve timely database locks.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Us

Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company’s first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics.

We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

Why Work Here?

We’re looking for people who can change the world.

Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.