VP Scientific and Clinical Affairs

ABOUT METAMORPH:We at MetaMorph, empower organizations to scale and innovate by placing people at the center of their strategy. With a proven track record of supporting over 220 orgs, we specialize in aligning talent with their needs, enhancing employee skills, and transforming employer brands. Our data-driven insights fuel decision-making and provide comprehensive support for both acquisition and being acquired, ensuring you are covered from every angle—360°About Our Client:A next-gen health and performance platform built to help individuals optimize their metabolic fitness offering intelligent wearables, real-time biometric insights, personalized recommendations, and a connected ecosystem designed to improve daily lifestyle decisions and long-term well-being.The Role:The cross domain leadership role with a mix of evidence generation along with Regulatory & Clinical Affairs for global medical device markets. This leader will drive not only drive clinical validation programs, foster partnerships but also ensure regulatory compliance across multiple geographies, and serve as a strategic liaison between product, quality, clinical, engineering, and executive teams. The ideal candidate is articulate, confident, and adept at leading high-performance teams in fast-paced, innovation-driven environments.Key Responsibility:Evidence Generation and Clinical Affairs- Lead and mentor a group of talented and diverse researchers - Support business and product requirements with scientific evidence generation. Work across different verticals to ensure timely and precise validation assignments of new products. - Manage partnerships with CROs, hospitals, academic collaborators, and principal investigators. - Vetting scientific merit of incoming partnerships leads working closely with leadership - Oversee ideation, design and execution of internal proof of concept and externally executed clinical studies - Foster and expand a robust multi-themed publication schedule - posters, conferences, white papers, peer reviewed publications - Foster and expand Client's varied research partnership roster, finding new avenues of R&D with academia - Serve as ambassador for Client's scientific activities on offline and online platformsRegulatory Leadership- Develop and implement regulatory strategies for India, US, EU, and other priority markets. - Oversee preparation and successful submission of regulatory filings (e.g., CDSCO, 510(k), CE Mark, ISO audits). - Engage directly with regulatory authorities, notified bodies, and government agencies. - Build and maintain compliance frameworks aligned with global medical device regulations (MDR, IVDR, QMS standards).Cross-Functional Influence- Act as a key strategic partner to executive leadership and contribute to long-term product planning. - Work closely with leadership and heads of engineering, product, quality, and commercial teams to align regulatory and clinical requirements. - Communicate clearly and persuasively with internal teams and external stakeholders.People & Team Leadership- Mentor junior staff and foster a culture of accountability, precision, and scientific integrity. - Establish structured processes for documentation, data management, and compliance.Requirements:Experience- 10-12+ years of experience in evidence generation, scientific communications or regulatory and clinical affairs, - Prior experience in wearables and/or medical devices preferred(digital health, diagnostics, wearables, Class II/III devices, or related). - Proven track record of leading programs of global partnerships, regulatory submissions and clinical programs. - Experience interacting with international regulatory bodies and managing multi-country studies is an added plus.Education- Advanced degree in life sciences, biomedical engineering, medicine, or a related discipline. - International education or research experience (mandatory), such as graduate studies abroad, international fellowships, or cross-border research collaborations.Skills & Attributes- Exceptional communication - clear, structured, and executive-ready. - Strong analytical and scientific writing skills. - High comfort working across multiple time zones and functions. - Ability to operate independently with a strategic mindset. - Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence C-suite decision-making. - Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable in regulatory ambiguity.Other Expectations- Based in India, preferably Bangalore. - Willingness and ability to travel as needed. - Comfortable in a transformative, fast-paced, globally distributed organization.