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Industries · Healthcare AI

Healthcare AI.

Clinical AI, AI product, applied ML, and AI-native health operators. Recruiters who can credibly speak to both clinical reality and modern ML systems.

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Segment
Clinical AI · AI digital health · payer AI
Roles
Head of AI · VP ML · Clinical AI Lead
Engagement
Engaged or contingent
Geography
Nationwide · US
The thesis

Healthcare AI sits at the intersection of two passive pools.

Healthcare AI candidates are mostly building, not interviewing. The Head of AI you actually want is heads-down on a clinical-decision-support roadmap. The Clinical AI Lead you actually want is publishing and shipping. The search needs a recruiter who understands both the clinical credentialing reality and the modern ML operating model.

Engaged search funds that depth. The deposit covers the dedicated time of a recruiter with footprint on both desks: healthcare leadership and AI/ML technical recruiting.

We work AI-native digital health (clinical-AI startups, AI-driven care models), large health systems hiring their first AI leader, payer-side AI organizations, and pharma/biotech machine-learning operations.

Roles we cover

Where the search lives.

Senior leadership and niche-headhunter roles. The recruiter assigned to your search has spent a decade in this segment.

AI LEADERSHIP
  • Head of AI
  • VP Machine Learning
  • Chief AI Officers
  • Heads of Applied AI
CLINICAL AI
  • Clinical AI Leads
  • Heads of Clinical Decision Support
  • Medical Directors of AI
  • Clinical Informatics Leadership
AI PRODUCT
  • VP AI Product
  • Directors of AI Product
  • Heads of AI/ML Product Strategy
APPLIED ML & ENGINEERING
  • Principal AI/ML Engineers
  • Directors of Applied Research
  • Heads of AI Platform
FAQ

Healthcare AI,
specifically.

The questions hiring operators send in the first call.

What kinds of healthcare AI roles do you recruit for?
AI leadership (Head of AI, VP ML, Chief AI Officer), Clinical AI (Clinical AI Lead, Medical Director of AI), AI Product (VP AI Product, Directors of AI Product), and applied ML engineering (Principal AI/ML Engineers, Directors of Applied Research).
Do you work with health systems hiring their first AI leader?
Yes. The first-AI-leader hire at a health system is a recurring engagement. The recruiter assigned has experience scoping the role with executive sponsors who haven't hired AI leadership before, and finding candidates who can operate inside a clinical environment.
How do you reach AI candidates who aren't on job boards?
Through a combination of recruiter networks, ProHireHQ AI sourcing across open-source contributions and conference participation, and direct outreach via the recruiter's relationships. AI candidates respond to specifics: the data, the model, the deployment, and the autonomy.
Are healthcare AI searches typically engaged or contingent?
Senior leadership searches are engaged. Director-level and below run engaged or contingent depending on the role and the candidate-pool characteristics.
Do you cover both clinical and non-clinical AI leadership?
Yes. Clinical-AI leaders sit closer to the medical practice (often physicians or PhDs with clinical depth). Non-clinical AI leaders run the broader AI engineering. Most senior searches need both, calibrated together; the recruiter assigned has experience scoping each correctly.
Do you cover the entire United States?
Yes. We run nationwide healthcare-AI searches and we are based in Virginia Beach, VA. Most senior healthcare-AI roles are remote or hybrid.
So now what?

Three paths from here.

  1. You're hiring a Chief AI Officer or VP Clinical AI.

    Engaged search, the candidate pool is dual-credentialed (clinical + ML) and tightly networked. We map it across both networks in five days. Start the scoping call →

  2. You're scoping the AI strategy and want a CMO who understands ML systems.

    Read the CMO and AI executive-search posts side by side. The clinical-leadership scoping framework plus the AI-fluency working-session approach is what works for healthcare AI hires. Read the CMO hiring guide →

  3. You're benchmarking comp at the intersection.

    Healthcare AI comp blends clinical-physician comp (CMO bands) with AI engineering comp (FAANG-adjacent bands). Send us the role and we come back with a hybrid read. Email the read request →

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INDUSTRY · HEALTHCARE AI