[Hiring] Chief Clinical AI Officer @Govcio

Role Description

GovCIO is seeking a physician executive to lead clinical and artificial intelligence solutions that improve care, reduce administrative burden, and help healthcare organizations solve their most consequential operational problems. The Chief Clinical AI Officer will connect frontline clinical needs with technology strategy, product development, and delivery, with an initial emphasis on the Department of Veterans Affairs and the ability to extend successful approaches to other healthcare markets. This position is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities

• Executive Responsibilities
  • Define and lead the clinical AI strategy and investment roadmap.
  • Prioritize problems by patient and clinician benefit, implementation feasibility, risk, and business value.
  • Align recommended investments with GovCIO strategy and customer priorities.
  • Lead clinical solution design from discovery through evaluation and adoption.
  • Translate care delivery problems into workflows, product requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
  • Provide clinical leadership across VA programs and task orders.
  • Work with program managers to align clinical priorities, staffing, and evaluation activities.
  • Advance growth through credible clinical differentiation.
  • Shape opportunities, contribute to capture and proposal strategy, evaluate partners, and develop evidence-based business cases.
  • Represent GovCIO as a senior clinical voice with customers and partners.
  • Build a network of physician, nursing, informatics, and specialty experts.
  • Mentor teams and communicate clinical value and implementation tradeoffs clearly to executive audiences.
• Clinical AI Portfolio
  • Lead a portfolio of clinical and operational use cases across existing programs and emerging opportunities.
  • Improve referral, authorization, and care-coordination workflows.
  • Guide clinical evaluation of dental AI solutions.
  • Shape ambient documentation, clinical copilots, generative and agentic AI workflows.
  • Connect clinical needs to application and architecture development.
  • Guide clinical use cases for AI-enabled immersive technologies.
• Clinical Governance and Adoption
  • Establish clinical evaluation standards for intended use, data quality, usability, and performance.
  • Provide documented clinical readiness recommendations and escalate unresolved safety concerns.
  • Lead clinician engagement, education, and change management.
  • Establish baselines and evaluate results across patient safety, access, clinical quality, clinician workload, user experience, and cost.

Qualifications

• Medical degree from an accredited medical school, completion of an accredited residency, and a current, active, unrestricted physician license in at least one U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia.
• Progressive physician leadership experience combining direct patient care with responsibility for health informatics, clinical operations, digital health, or healthcare transformation in a complex healthcare organization.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled clinical tools.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary initiatives across clinicians, informaticists, product teams, engineers, data scientists, and operational leaders.
• Strong working knowledge of electronic health records, clinical data and analytics, interoperability, clinical decision support, and the opportunities and limitations of generative and agentic AI in healthcare.
• Executive communication, teaching, and relationship-building skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• An additional graduate degree in healthcare delivery leadership, health informatics, health administration, public health, medical science, or a related discipline.
• Clinical Informatics board certification, eligibility, or active progression toward certification.
• VA or other federal healthcare experience, particularly national or regional AI initiatives.
• Experience with platforms such as Palantir Foundry or AIP, ambient AI, clinical agents, workflow automation, low-code platforms, or healthcare technology advisory work.

Clearance Required

• Ability to obtain and maintain Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Posted Salary Range

• USD $275,000.00 - USD $350,000.00 /Yr.