Who We Are
Vial’s vision is to empower scientists to cure all human disease. Vial was founded on a mission to
reimagine clinical trials and deliver faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Through our end to end technology platform, we are delivering on a generational opportunity to make trials radically more efficient.
Vial’s co-founders (Simon Burns and Andrew Brackin) were early team members at $1B+ startups Robinhood, Opendoor and Newfront. Our early team is made up of experienced technology and operations leaders from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Faire, Chime and other leading technology companies.
Vial was founded in Oct 2020 and has grown the team to over 100 across the business. Come join us on our adventure to reimagine clinical trials.
Overview
We’re looking to hire a Clinical Trial Lead who will be responsible for applying and providing guidance to clients and team members on best practices tailored to the applicable project, patient population, investigational product and client.
This role is fully remote, based anywhere in Canada. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship to work in the United States.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage clinical operations deliverables including timeline, quality, scope, and financials
- Work closely with the Project Manager to develop plans, monitor resource allocation and ensure that clinical site management and monitoring is being delivered per contract with quality and efficiency
- Proactively identify risks and escalate to Project Manager and other appropriate functional leads
- Together with the Project Manager, ensure transparent communication both internally and externally regarding study progress and issues
- Develop and maintain project-specific clinical operations plans as required per project (e.g. Clinical Monitoring Plan, Cohort Management Plan, Recruitment Plan, etc.)
- Develop and maintain project-specific clinical operations reference materials and tools, including study-specific forms and logs
- Develop training materials and conduct training for the clinical operations team throughout the project lifecycle
- Provide operational oversight for site and CRA deliverables and key performance indicators such as site activation, subject recruitment, site monitoring visits, data currency, and quality
- Manage CRA resourcing, site assignments, visit schedules and serve as the initial point of contact for clinical operations and monitoring issues
- Review and approve site monitoring visit reports; monitor and track related metrics for compliance with Clinical Monitoring Plan and SOPs
- Conduct monitoring visits, co-monitoring visits, assessment visits, and/or team training as necessary
What You’ll Bring
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant clinical research experience in a combination of research site, biotech or pharma, or CRO experience
- Minimum of three (3) year experience as a Clinical Trial Lead or equivalent (Clinical Trial/Study Manager) or relevant clinical operations experience at a CRO, biotech, or pharma company
- In-depth knowledge of clinical trials; the ability to see the bigger picture and prioritize the critical elements of success
- Early phase clinical trial experience
Annual Salary Range: $75,000 - 100,000 CAD
Final offer amount will depend on education, skills, experience, and location.
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Why You’ll Love Working At Vial
We are innately curious. We found our calling in clinical trials after learning the pain points directly. It is our curiosity that propels us to keep building, finding new challenges, and fulfilling our vision of reimagining clinical trials.
We believe in autonomy. Team members do their best work when given autonomy. In order to make an impact on the scale of the Vial vision, we built our culture to enable each Vial team member to feel ownership of their domain.
We take pride in building mastery. We believe in building master in a craft. Craftsmanship, a pride in one’s craft, is key to prolonged engagement on a difficult challenge. Vial’s culture is one of highly autonomous, deeply focused experts working on an immensely hard problem together.
Our strength is moving fast and staying humble. We believe that if we build a team that is intellectually honest, that we stay nimble and keep an open mind to all solutions - we’ll be adaptive and solve the problems that face us at every turn.
Benefits
Competitive Equity Compensation
Health, Dental, and Vision
Remote-First
Paid Parental Leave
Unlimited Vacation
