Who Are We?
Prolaio believes that continuous learning and collaboration can make a significant difference in how heart care is administered. We are creating smarter ways to address heart disease and heart risks by uniting patients, care teams, and researchers on a secure, technology-enabled platform that drives clinical innovation and offers a path towards better patient outcomes.
This is precision cardiology, and we know it’s within reach.
What Will You Do?
The Overview
The Director/Senior Director, AI Enablement will lead how AI is imagined, built, and scaled across Prolaio, setting a strategy that brings production‑grade AI into clinical, operational, and enterprise workflows. By turning real healthcare and business needs into practical AI‑powered solutions, this role directly advances Prolaio’s mission to unlock continuous, predictive, and shareable heart data and translate it into better cardiovascular outcomes. This position will play a central role in shaping Prolaio’s approach to generative AI, intelligent search, conversational interfaces, chatbot experiences, agentic AI-driven task automation, and AI-enabled user workflows across clinical trial platforms, healthcare data platforms, analytics environments, and application experiences.
The Specifics
- Define and lead the enterprise AI enablement strategy in alignment with Prolaio’s business priorities, product roadmap, and mission to advance cardiovascular research and care through real-world data and analytics.
- Identify, prioritize, and develop AI use cases across clinical trial platforms, healthcare data platforms, user-facing applications, and internal functions including Marketing, Finance, Clinical Operations, Supply Chain, IT, Analytics, and Data Science.
- Drive cross-functional alignment on AI priorities, business value, adoption goals, and success metrics, and communicate clearly with executive stakeholders on roadmap, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and business teams to design and deliver AI-powered capabilities that improve user experience, collaboration, productivity, and decision-making in both internal and external environments.
- Lead the design, development, and productionization of generative AI features such as conversational assistants, clinical or enterprise search, knowledge retrieval tools, workflow copilots, and chatbot experiences.
- Drive the implementation of agentic AI use cases that enable task automation, role-based workflow orchestration, and operational efficiency while maintaining appropriate human oversight, auditability, and control.
- Establish repeatable processes and operating frameworks for evaluating, piloting, validating, deploying, monitoring, and continuously improving AI-powered features and products in production environments.
- Collaborate with technical teams to support the integration of AI-enabled services into modern application, data, and cloud architectures using platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure and data environments such as Snowflake, Databricks, or proprietary platforms.
Why Prolaio?
- Impactful Work: You will join in the fight against heart failure (HF) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with the goal of extending and saving the lives of our patients while also being at the forefront of changing the healthcare industry through technology.
- Innovative Environment: You will be part of an organization doing something that’s never been done before.
- Professional Growth: You will join a growing team and have a substantial impact on our daily and future operations with the opportunity to continuously learn and grow.
- Collaborative Team: You will be part of a team of collaborative, curious, and committed individuals focused on the collective good, inclusiveness, scientific excellence, and advancing digital health for cardiology.
Who You Are?
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence or another relevant technical field.
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in healthcare, life sciences, digital health, or healthcare technology.
- Track record of identifying and scaling AI use cases across clinical trial, healthcare data, and enterprise application platforms in a regulated environment.
- Experience improving internal user experience and enterprise workflow effectiveness through AI use cases supporting functions such as Marketing, Finance, Clinical Operations, Supply Chain, IT, Analytics, and Data Science.
- Proven experience developing and launching AI-powered products or features in production in a regulated environment, such as chatbot experiences, generative AI-enabled search, intelligent retrieval, conversational interfaces, and workflow copilots.
- Experience implementing agentic AI or advanced automation approaches for task execution, role-based automation, decision support, or workflow orchestration.
- Strong understanding of healthcare data, clinical workflows, and enterprise systems, along with the ability to translate business and user needs into deployable AI capabilities.
- Working knowledge of healthcare regulatory (FDA requirements and global standards, 501(k) submission, 21 CFR Part 11 across product development and post-market activities), privacy, quality and risk frameworks relevant to AI deployment in healthcare and clinical environments.
- Strong communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills, with the ability to operate as an independent self-starter.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Meaningful Compensation: Competitive salary, performance bonus, and equity so you can share in what we build.
- Great Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple options and strong company contributions.
- Flexible Spending Perks: HSA, FSA, commuter benefits, and a $1,200 annual Lifestyle Spending Account to support wellness, commuting, family needs, and more.
- Time to Recharge: Generous paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays.
- Family-First Benefits: Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and support for growing families.
- Security & Peace of Mind: Company-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Plan for the Future: 401(k) plan to help you build long-term financial security.
- Care When You Need It: Easy access to telehealth and optional supplemental coverage for life’s unexpected moments.
Starting Salary is at $209,000.00 (Exact Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, or related technical field.
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in healthcare, life sciences, digital health, or healthcare technology.
- Proven track record identifying and scaling AI use cases across clinical trial, healthcare data, and enterprise application platforms in regulated environments.
- Experience developing and launching AI-powered products/features in production (chatbots, generative AI search, conversational interfaces, workflow copilots) in regulated settings.
- Experience implementing agentic AI or advanced automation for task execution, role-based automation, decision support, or workflow orchestration.
- Strong understanding of healthcare data, clinical workflows, and enterprise systems with ability to translate needs into deployable AI capabilities.
- Working knowledge of healthcare regulatory, privacy, quality, and risk frameworks relevant to AI (FDA, 21 CFR Part 11, 510(k)/regulatory pathways).
- Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to integrate AI services into cloud and data architectures (GCP, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks).
- Strong communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, change leadership, and ability to operate as an independent self-starter.
Prolaio Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage with the employer covering a large share of premiums is emphasized, alongside company-paid short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance. This combination signals strong core protection from the start of employment.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A structured package lists 15 vacation days for new hires, 10 sick days, and 13 paid company holidays, with additional personal/wellness days noted. This breadth provides clear, predictable time-off categories rather than an undefined policy.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A Lifestyle Spending Account via Benepass (listed as $100/month or $1,200 annually in postings) and commuter benefits broaden everyday support. Flexible and hybrid work options are also referenced as part of overall wellbeing.
Prolaio Insights
What We Do
Prolaio is a clinical intelligence company dedicated to unlocking continuous, predictive and shareable heart data to liberate patients from hospital-based reactive care and accelerate every new therapy. The company was created by cardiologists, cardiovascular practitioners, and data scientists specifically to address the world’s number one cause of death — cardiovascular disease. By combining scientific rigor with cutting‑edge technology, Prolaio aims to transform real‑world heart data into faster discovery today and precision care for functional cures tomorrow.
Why Work With Us
Kardigan and Prolaio were both founded to challenge the status quo in cardiology. If we have any shot at radically reducing the time and cost to develop meaningful new medicines and provide better healthcare access and outcomes for patients, we need to fundamentally embrace real-world data and AI-based tools in a way that is fully integrated across
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
