Role Summary
The Head of Regulatory is responsible for ensuring Hippocratic AI's life sciences platform meets the scientific, medical, and regulatory standards required to operate within life science environments. You will serve as the company's authoritative voice on Regulatory Review cycle management, regulatory tracking and compliance, regulatory review including non-promotional engagement standards — working at the intersection of product, customer deployments, and external stakeholders.
You will guide how the platform handles MLR review processes, and regulatory requirements across therapeutic areas and geographies. You will also support enterprise sales and deployment conversations where medical credibility and regulatory confidence are critical to closing and scaling accounts.
You will report to the SVP of Medical Affairs, and work closely with the President of Life Sciences, Chief Commercial Officer, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Regulatory Strategy and Oversight
Define and maintain Regulatory standards that govern the platform's patient-facing and HCP-facing interactions.
Establish labelling operations frameworks for l delivery, ensuring responses are accurate, evidence-based, and aligned with approved labeling and non-promotional requirements.
Advise on the regulatory requirements to ensure platform's compliant handling of medical inquiries, off-label questions, and clinical content across therapeutic areas.
Creative thinker who brings original ideas to the table and can partner with the product team to architect purpose-built AI agents for medical affairs workflows
Partner with Product and Engineering to support medical guardrails, escalation pathways, and clinical logic into platform workflows.
Stay current on therapeutic landscape developments, treatment guidelines, and medical communication best practices relevant to the platform's use cases.
Regulatory and Compliance Guidance
Own the regulatory strategy for how the platform operates within pharma customer environments, including MLR review processes, adverse event reporting obligations, and privacy requirements.
Guide internal teams and pharma customers on regulatory requirements across FDA, EMA, and other relevant jurisdictions as they apply to AI-enabled patient and HCP engagement.
Serve as the primary point of contact for customer medical, safety, legal, and regulatory stakeholders during sales and deployment conversations.
Partner with legal and compliance teams to ensure platform workflows meet HIPAA, GDPR, and industry-specific data governance standards.
Enterprise Sales and Deployment Support
Provide medical and regulatory credibility during enterprise sales conversations, RFP responses, and executive workshops with pharma customers.
Help Sales navigate MLR, pharmacovigilance, legal, compliance, and governance review processes within prospective and existing accounts.
Develop materials and frameworks that demonstrate the platform's regulatory readiness, safety architecture, and medical rigor to customer stakeholders.
Offer strategic oversight during early deployments to ensure medical accuracy, safety protocols, and compliance guardrails are properly configured and validated.
Scaling and Knowledge Development
Translate learnings from customer engagements and pilot deployments into repeatable regulatory and medical affairs playbooks.
Develop and publish thought leadership on AI in pharma commercialization — including perspectives on commercial model transformation, patient services evolution, and the strategic implications of agentic AI for pharma operating models.
Build internal knowledge bases covering AE reporting workflows, MLR requirements, non-promotional standards, and therapeutic areas–specific regulatory considerations.
Identify emerging regulatory trends in AI-enabled healthcare and patient engagement, and advise leadership on their implications for product and go-to-market strategy.
Qualifications
Required
7–15 years of experience in regulatory operations regulatory affairs, within pharma, biotech, or life sciences services organizations.
Deep working knowledge of MLR review processes, non-promotional communication standards, and medical information operations and adverse event reporting, pharmacovigilance regulations,
Strong understanding of FDA and EMA regulatory frameworks as they apply to patient engagement, medical communications, and digital health technologies.
Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with VP, SVP, and C-suite stakeholders across medical, regulatory, legal, and compliance functions at pharma organizations.
Experience translating regulatory and medical requirements into operational workflows, product requirements, or technology specifications.
Comfort working in high-growth environments with limited structure and high expectations for ownership and cross-functional collaboration.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred
Experience with digital health platforms, AI in healthcare, or patient engagement technologies.
Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, and data privacy frameworks in the context of patient-facing technology.
Prior experience supporting enterprise sales or technology deployments into large pharma organizations from a medical or regulatory perspective.
MD, PharmD, PhD, or advanced scientific degree strongly preferred. MBA, MPH, or MS also valued.
Startup or early-stage company experience.
What We're Looking For
A regulatory leader who can establish Hippocratic AI as a trusted, compliant platform in the eyes of pharma's most rigorous stakeholders. A hands-on operator who builds frameworks and processes rather than waiting for them to exist. A customer-facing expert who gives pharma executives confidence that the platform meets the highest standards for safety, accuracy, and regulatory compliance. A strategic thinker who understands that regulatory credibility is a competitive advantage and a prerequisite for scaling in life sciences. A builder who wants to define how AI-enabled patient engagement is governed during a transformative period in the industry.
Why Join Hippocratic AI
Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare‑only, safety‑focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.
Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co‑founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.
Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world‑changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.
Equal Opportunity
Hippocratic AI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building a team that reflects the patients we serve. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you require accommodations during the hiring process, please contact people@hippocraticai.com.
Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.