Head of Clinical Recruitment and Engagement

🧬 About Sano

Mission; what we do

• accelerating the world’s transition to personalised medicine
  

Purpose; why we do it

• to speed up development of life-saving treatments for those with limited options
  

Vision; where we’re going

• become the world’s best source of patient-in-the-loop genomic and health data for precision medicine development

As our Head of Clinical Recruitment & Engagement, you’ll lead recruitment strategy across multiple studies, helping shape how we connect the right patients to the right trials, faster and more inclusively than ever before.

This is a unique opportunity to design and own a scalable, tech-enabled recruitment model in a fast-moving environment, with immediate impact on our growth and success ahead of Series B. You’ll work cross-functionally from day one, drive platform improvements, build high-trust relationships across the ecosystem - and define what best-in-class recruitment looks like at Sano.

Headlines:

• Role - Head of Clinical Recruitment & Engagement
• Salary - $130,000 - 170,000
• Location - This is a remote US role, but please note that we’re only able to hire in the following US states:
  • Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas

What you'll be doing:

• Owning the recruitment vision and roadmap, aligning it with company priorities and delivery milestones.
• Partnering with Clinical Ops, Product, and Commercial teams to ensure recruitment is embedded across study design and execution.
• Delivering patient recruitment strategies across multiple studies, from feasibility through to enrolment.
• Tailoring approaches to study protocol, indication complexity, and patient population needs.
• Leading digital and partner-driven campaigns to increase reach, trust, and engagement.
• Building scalable processes to manage high-volume recruitment across concurrent programs.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with sites, vendors, and advocacy groups.
• Collaborating with Product to inform feature development and embed recruitment insights.
• Managing and coaching a cross-functional team across recruitment, navigation, and patient experience.
• Defining and iterating on KPIs to drive performance, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.

This job is for you if you have:

• Deep knowledge of clinical trial operations, including protocol design, recruitment bottlenecks, and execution across Phases I–IV.
• Hands-on experience in rare disease, pediatric, or underserved population trials, with an understanding of their unique challenges.
• Working knowledge of GCP, GDPR, and ethical recruitment standards, including managing IRB/REC submissions for study materials.
• A track record of delivering multi-study recruitment programs, ideally across global or decentralized settings.
• Operational strength in managing high-volume pipelines, timelines, and participant data workflows.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Clinical Ops, and Commercial teams to drive aligned recruitment efforts.
• Confidence building trust with sites, partners, and participants, especially in sensitive or complex health contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including simplifying technical study materials for lay audiences.
• Fluency in healthtech tools like CRM, eConsent, or prescreening platforms—and familiarity with digital recruitment products.
• Experience in a product-led healthtech or SaaS environment
• A track record of building strong relationships with CROs or global trial sites

Even better if you have:

• Experience scaling recruitment programs internationally, across multiple studies or populations.
• Strategic experience in trial planning - including patient finding, site selection, and tech stack design.
• Confidence owning cross-functional product workstreams, especially with digital recruitment tooling.
• A track record of leading SaaS or platform implementations in healthcare or research settings.
• Ability to bridge commercial and delivery needs, turning sponsor goals into scalable operational plans.

This role is unlikely to be a great match if:

• You’ve only worked in traditional, site-first recruitment environments. This role requires comfort with digital platforms and product collaboration in a SaaS setting.
• You prefer to follow established processes rather than build and improve them. We're in a growth phase and need someone who can create structure, not just operate within it.
• You’re not confident working at both strategic and hands-on levels. You’ll need to move between high-level planning and operational delivery daily.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don't let our role description hold you back, get applying!

🔍 Hiring Process

1. 📞 Initial screening with Becca 
2. 💡 1st Interview with Sarah
3. 🙌 2nd Interview with wider team
4. ⭐️ Founder Interview

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed. All interviews at Sano take place virtually. Please let us know if we can help make a virtual interview run smoother for you.

🛑 Please note:

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the USA. We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Sano Genetics welcomes applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, or marital/civil partnership status.

We're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or other aspects of your identity. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Sano. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.