VP Clinical Development

The Company

Resilience is a global, clinical-stage medtech company specializing in oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry. We develop digital solutions that transform patient care and generate robust clinical data to improve treatments. As a true sponsor, we are conducting multiple prospective randomized clinical trials to obtain regulatory approvals in Europe and the United States.

Your Role

In a nutshell: The Vice President, Clinical Development will own and lead all sponsor-led clinical development activities at Resilience across oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry. This role is accountable for the strategic direction, design, and execution of Resilience-sponsored clinical trials and real-world evidence programs, ensuring consistency, scientific rigor, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness across all business units. Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, the VP Clinical Development will build and lead a centralized Clinical Development organization, composed of Clinical Leads and Clinical Scientists, and will serve as the single point of accountability for clinical development execution at the company level.

Key Responsibilities

• Clinical Development Ownership (Core accountability)
  • Own the end-to-end clinical development strategy and execution for all Resilience-sponsored studies
  • Provide senior clinical leadership on:
    • study design and methodology
    • protocol development and amendments
    • endpoint selection and clinical relevance
    • interpretation of clinical and real-world evidence
  • Ensure alignment and consistency of clinical development approaches across oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry
• Team Leadership & Organization
  • Build, lead, and mentor a Clinical Development team composed of:
    • Clinical Leads (by therapeutic area)
    • Clinical Scientists
  • Define clear roles, responsibilities, and governance across the team
  • Establish scalable ways of working enabling high-quality, timely execution
• Portfolio Governance & Standardization
  • Design and implement standardized clinical development frameworks across business units
  • Harmonize:
    • protocol templates and study documentation
    • clinical review and governance processes
    • decision criteria and escalation pathways
  • Ensure alignment with ICH-GCP, ISO 14155, MDR, and applicable regulatory standards
• Operational Excellence & Inspection Readiness
  • Ensure inspection readiness across all sponsor-led trials
  • Partner closely with Clinical Operations to:
    • drive execution excellence and risk anticipation
    • ensure quality-by-design principles
    • resolve complex operational or scientific issues
  • Act as senior escalation point for clinical development matters
• Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate closely with:
    • Regulatory & Quality (clinical strategy, submissions, audits)
    • Biostatistics (study design, endpoints, analysis plans)
    • Medical Affairs (scientific alignment and evidence narratives)
    • Market Access & Public Affairs (clinical evidence support)
    • Product and Data teams (translation of clinical insights into digital solutions)
  • Ensure clinical development is tightly integrated with company-wide priorities

Candidate Profile

You're the right person if you are

• A strategic thinker with the ability to prioritize in complex environments
• An inspiring leader with a talent for developing your teams
• Executive presence with strong scientific credibility
• Cross-functional minded with ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
• Comfortable with innovation (digital health, non-traditional endpoints)
• An excellent communicator and presenter

You're the right person if you have already

• An MD MSc or MD PhD degree
• Minimum 5 years of clinical development experience on the sponsor side (biotech/pharma)
• Proven experience managing and scaling clinical development teams
• Strong understanding of regulatory and inspection requirements
• Worked in international contexts (EU/US regulatory exposure)

Nice to have: Experience in digital therapeutics or biotechs that have obtained CE/FDA approvals.

Why join us?

• Direct impact on the company's clinical governance: you will build Resilience's clinical engine from scratch
• Cross-therapeutic exposure: oncology, psychiatry, gastroenterology
• Strategic interaction with executive leadership: you will work directly with the CMO and CEO
• Ambitious scale-up environment: combines scientific rigor, digital innovation, and regulatory ambition

Recruitment Process

• Strategic