S K AI Pvt Ltd is seeking an accomplished Head of Research & Development for Healthcare & Life Sciences to lead the company’s research, product-development, clinical innovation, and strategic partnership initiatives across healthcare, biotechnology, life sciences, and AI-enabled medical solutions.
This executive role requires a rare combination of medical and scientific knowledge, technology understanding, healthcare business development, research leadership, commercialization experience, and investor-facing executive presence. The successful candidate will work closely with company leadership to build cutting-edge healthcare and life-sciences products, establish collaborations with hospitals and research institutions, support fundraising, and develop a high-value R&D; portfolio with global commercial potential.
Key Responsibilities
Define and execute the company’s healthcare and life-sciences R&D; strategy, including AI-enabled clinical, diagnostic, research, and decision-support solutions.
Lead multidisciplinary programs involving physicians, clinical researchers, data scientists,
AI engineers, biostatisticians, software developers, and external academic collaborators.
Identify high-value unmet clinical needs and translate them into commercially viable AI, digital health, MedTech, BioTech, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) opportunities.
Develop research roadmaps, clinical validation strategies, product-development plans, milestones, budgets, KPIs, and commercialization pathways.
Build strategic relationships with hospitals, medical schools, universities, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, CROs, healthcare systems, research laboratories, and government organizations.
Represent S K AI before venture capital firms, private investors, strategic investors, research organizations, healthcare executives, academic investigators, and potential commercial partners.
Support fundraising through scientific presentations, investor meetings, technical due dili
📌 Head of Research (India)
🏢 SK AI
📍 India