"Conquering cancer through AI"
Lunit, a portmanteau of "Learning unit," is a medical AI software company devoted to providing AI-powered total cancer care. Our AI solutions help discover cancer and predict cancer treatment outcomes, achieving timely and individually tailored cancer treatment.
About the Position
- Lunit is seeking a Director of Clinical Deployment & Growth to lead the end-to-end activation of our AI-powered pathology solutions in clinical practice. This role owns the full lifecycle from initial customer engagement and relationship management through live clinical deployment, workflow integration, adoption, and expansion.
- Success is defined by sites successfully going live, integrating into workflow, and scaling usage.
- This is a high-impact, cross-functional role combining clinical solution selling, deployment leadership, and account expansion. This role is key to scaling the actual clinical use of AI-supported pathology, to meet the growing demand from laboratories for AI integration, and to scale the real-world deployment of AI biomarkers built together with Lunit's biopharma partners.
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical to Lunit's next phase: moving from strong technology and research leadership to scaled research and clinical adoption. The position will directly shape how AI becomes embedded in real-world pathology workflows and help define a new standard for precision oncology. This role will also help bridge the gap between biomarker discovery and real-world clinical adoption, enabling next-generation precision oncology approaches in partnership with leading biopharma companies.
Core Responsibilities
- Land: Strategic Customer Engagement
- Identify and engage leading pathology labs, cancer centers, and health systems.
- Shape high-impact initial use cases.
- Lead consultative sales process with pathologists, lab directors, and IT stakeholders.
- Structure deals with clear, achievable deployment pathways.
- Deploy: Drive Clinical Activation
- Design contracts and pricing creatively to meet lab user needs, in coordination with channel partners and via direct contracting.
- Own time from contract through implementation and live clinical use.
- Collaborate with Lunit's engineering deployment team to enable clinical adoption, steadily overcoming an ever-evolving landscape of integration challenges.
- Support site validation processes, including guiding partners on validation execution.
- Guide and support user integration of Lunit AI across LIS, digital pathology systems, and IT environments.
- Remove technical, operational, and organizational blockers to go-live.
- Prove: Ensure Real Clinical Adoption
- Drive initial usage by pathologists and lab teams.
- Establish measurable value (e.g. efficiency, reproducibility, clinical insight, accuracy, time, user happiness).
- Create an impactful feedback loop between users and Lunit product and engineering teams.
- Build internal champions within each institution.
- Ensure solutions are embedded into routine workflows.
- Expand: Grow Within Accounts
- Identify and execute expansion opportunities across additional biomarkers / products, departments, and sites.
- Convert initial deployments into multi-product, multi-site partnerships.
- Build the Playbook
- Together with Lunit product and engineering teams, develop repeatable deployment frameworks, e.g.:
- Integration and validation templates
- Best practices for user training and troubleshooting
- IT/security/deployment documentation
- Integration workflows across major platform vendors
- Codify best practices to scale globally.
- Enable Biomarker Deployment with Pharma Partners
- Support translation of novel biomarkers into real-world clinical workflows.
- Ensure deployment readiness for multi-site clinical studies and companion diagnostic pathways.
- Partner cross-functionally with Lunit's pharma and medical teams to operationalize biomarker strategies at clinical sites.
What Success Looks Like
Expected milestones for the Director within 12-18 months:
- Establish multiple lighthouse clinical sites with live deployments.
- Reduce deployment timelines significantly through standardized playbooks.
- Drive meaningful clinical usage and expansion across accounts.
- Help accelerate deployment of Lunit AI into research and clinical workflows.