Position Details

Salary $10K – $12K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience executive

Exp. Years Not specified

Education Not specified

Category Healthcare & Medical

About this role

Valhalla Vitality seeks a Chief Medical Officer (Advisory) to provide senior clinical leadership, governance, and strategic medical direction as the platform scales. The role sets clinical standards and risk guardrails, designs scalable care pathways, and ensures defensible, compliant clinical supervision structures.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the senior clinical authority for the platform
Establish supervision frameworks required by applicable state regulations
Design, review, and refine platform-level clinical protocols and care pathways
Ensure protocols are evidence-based and consistently implemented across providers
Provide clinically informed input on growth initiatives and manage risk guardrails including controlled substances

Technical Overview

This is a clinical governance and protocol leadership role rather than a software/data engineering role. The scope centers on designing and standardizing evidence-based clinical protocols, eligibility criteria, refill parameters, follow-up cadence, and discontinuation guardrails, with escalation ownership for safety and regulatory issues.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an executive-level Chief Medical Officer (Advisory) who provides senior clinical governance and platform-level protocol leadership. They have deep experience ensuring evidence-based, compliant clinical programs, including controlled-substance prescribing guardrails, and can build scalable supervision frameworks aligned with state regulations. They partner with executive leadership and Growth/Marketing teams to support clinically informed growth initiatives without replacing existing treating providers.

Must-Have Skills

Serve as the senior clinical authority for the Valhalla Vitality platformDesignreviewand refine platform-level clinical protocols and care pathwaysEnsure protocols are evidence-basedcompliantand consistently implemented across providersServe as an escalation point for complex clinicalregulatoryor patient safety mattersEstablish and maintain appropriate supervision frameworks as required by applicable state regulations

Nice-to-Have Skills

Architect scalabledefensible clinical programs that strengthen patient outcomesregulatory complianceand long-term commercial performanceLead the design of clinically sound programs that are scalabledefensibleand commercially viablewith measurable impact

Required Skills

Clinical governanceclinical protocolscare pathwaysregulatory compliancepatient safetysupervision frameworkscontrolled substancesevidence-based prescribing

Hard Skills

clinical governanceclinical protocolscare pathwayssupervision frameworksregulatory compliancepatient safety escalationcontrolled substances prescribing guidanceevidence-based protocolseligibility criteria standardizationrefill parameters standardizationfollow-up cadence standardizationdiscontinuation guardrailsrisk guardrailscare pathway implementation across providers

Soft Skills

senior clinical leadershipstrategic medical leadershipstakeholder managementcollaboration with executivesclinical supervision oversightdecision-making defensibilitycommunication with growth and marketing teamsescalation leadership for complex safety and regulatory matters

Industry & Role

Industry Healthcare

Job Function Provide executive-level medical governance to ensure scalable, compliant clinical programs and safe, defensible patient care

Role Subtype Medical Director

Keywords for Your Resume

Chief Medical OfficerCMOClinical Governanceclinical protocolscare pathwaysregulatory compliancepatient safetyescalation pointsupervision frameworksstate regulationssupervising physician structurescontrolled substancesresponsible prescribingdefensible medical decision-makingevidence-basedeligibility criteriarefill parametersfollow-up cadencediscontinuation guardrailsclinical standardsclinical supervision structuresGrowth/Marketing teams

Deal Breakers

Must be able to establish and maintain supervision frameworks required by applicable state regulations, Must demonstrate experience leading evidence-based, compliant platform-level clinical protocols and care pathways, Must have experience serving as an escalation point for complex clinical/regulatory/patient safety matters

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