Director, Clinical Corporate Development

Director, Clinical Corporate Development

• Full-time
• Shift: Day
• Max. Salary Region 2: 318200 USD
• Max. Salary Region 1: 374400 USD
• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 249600 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Management 5, Dir (16)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 212200 USD

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you’ll find your purpose here.

The Future Forward team at Intuitive is a cross‑functional team dedicated to the creation of innovative medical technologies and robotic systems. We develop transformational technologies to address the major pain points and unmet needs in healthcare. Our goal is to revolutionize the future of healthcare by developing platforms and technologies that empower providers and teams to deliver life‑enhancing care.

The Director of Clinical Corporate Development applies deep clinical, scientific, and industry expertise to identify, evaluate, and shape high‑impact growth opportunities across new and adjacent domains. This role leads clinical need landscape analyses, assessing unmet patient needs, emerging technologies, and external companies to inform acquisition, investment, and strategic partnership decisions that advance Future Forward’s mission of reaching 10 million new patients through transformative innovation.

The Director plays a central role in defining breakthrough clinical applications and long‑horizon platform opportunities, partnering closely with Business Development, Finance, Technical Research, and incubated programs to align clinical value, strategic fit, and enterprise impact. Ideal candidates are intellectually curious and analytically rigorous, with the judgment to challenge assumptions, synthesize incomplete evidence, and drive conviction‑based decisions—while remaining highly collaborative, grounded in data, and focused on real‑world clinical utility.

Lead clinical and scientific diligence across emerging technologies, technology platforms, early‑ and late‑stage companies, and external collaborators, assessing clinical relevance, feasibility, differentiation, risk, and strategic fit.

Partner cross‑functionally with Business Development, Strategy, and Finance to evaluate unmet clinical needs, patient segmentation, competitive dynamics, and adoption barriers, translating clinical insight into clear value propositions and actionable investment theses.

Serve as a senior clinical thought partner during early‑stage opportunity evaluation, informing decisions related to investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic collaborations under conditions of uncertainty and incomplete data.

Engage externally with startups, academic investigators, clinicians, and strategic partners to assess technology maturity, clinical readiness, translational pathways, and potential routes to scale.

Produce high‑quality, structured clinical assessments including opportunity briefs, diligence summaries, and executive‑level presentations, that synthesize complex clinical and scientific information to support leadership and Board‑level decision‑making.

Identify, prioritize, and frame high‑value unmet clinical needs through a combination of clinical observation, literature review, data analysis, and direct stakeholder…