Sr. Clinical Specialist, Surgical Operations (Mountain West)

Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead field-based clinical and technical expert across assigned sites, providing advanced guidance on surgical workflow, protocol execution, and complex case management while setting expectations for execution consistency
• Lead site onboarding, advanced training, and ongoing capability development for investigators, surgeons, and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment to standardized procedural practices and trial requirements
• Including surgical workflow, intraoperative imaging, cell preparation and handling requirements, and the surgical delivery components of protocol execution and documentation
• Drive site pre-case readiness across scheduling, staffing, materials, imaging coordination, and procedural flow, proactively identifying and mitigating execution risks and closing readiness gaps
• Provide advanced onsite support during complex neurosurgical procedures, delivering real time guidance, addressing workflow deviations, and resolving procedural or protocol-related issues
• Ensure consistent application of protocol requirements, patient safety standards, and data integrity expectations across sites, reinforcing compliance while influencing best practices
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with principal investigators, neurosurgeons, and key hospital stakeholders, acting as a trusted clinical advisor and representative of the Company’s surgical delivery model
• Synthesize field insights, procedural trends, and site-level challenges to inform cross functional decision-making, influencing Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Medical, Quality, and Regulatory strategies
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by translating field experience into enhancements to training programs, procedural workflows, tools, and site readiness models
• Contribute to the development and standardization of the Company’s surgical delivery model across the clinical network, ensuring scalability and consistency as trials expand
• Informally mentor and guide junior clinical specialists and cross-functional partners, sharing expertise and reinforcing best practices across the team
• Support trial expansion strategy, including site activation, network scaling, and investigator engagement, while ensuring readiness and execution quality across new and existing sites
• Provide thought partnership in internal case reviews, risk discussions, and cross-functional planning, contributing to trial design considerations and execution strategy

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, nursing, neuroscience, life sciences, or a related field required; advanced degree (e.g., MSN, PA, NP, PhD) preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in field clinical support, surgical support, clinical applications, or trial-facing procedural roles within complex, procedure driven environments (e.g., neurosurgery, implantable therapies, image-guided interventions)
• Extensive hands-on experience supporting high-acuity neurosurgical or interventional procedures; deep familiarity with cranial, stereotactic, or intracranial delivery workflows strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience operating in regulated clinical trial environments, including application of GCP, protocol adherence, SOPs, and documentation requirements
• Experience supporting early-phase or first-in-human studies, MRI-guided workflows, or advanced therapy delivery (cell or gene therapy), and contributing to development of field procedures, training programs, or site readiness processes