VP, Patient Engagement & Recruitment

About Profound Research

Profound Research partners with community physicians to offer clinical trials as a therapeutic option for their patients. We handle all infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and administrative operations so physicians can focus on patient care. Our model gives patients access to the newest therapies while maintaining the trusted patient-physician relationship.

Our Mission: Improving lives by providing advanced therapeutic options

Our Vision: Creating the absolute best patient-physician experience in clinical research

Our Values:

Compassion: We prioritize the patient-physician relationship, ensuring every interaction is service-oriented and patient-centered

Urgency: We work hard and practice selflessness, acting swiftly and decisively to meet the needs of our patients, partners, and colleagues

Solution Orientation: We embrace challenges with a positive mindset, communicate directly, and identify and implement effective solutions with efficiency

Excellence: We insist on excellence, holding ourselves accountable and empowering each other to deliver best-in-class service while maintaining the highest ethical and scientific standards

Why This Role Exists

Patients are at the center of everything Profound does, and patient recruitment is one of the most direct ways we deliver on our mission of expanding access to advanced therapeutic options.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a senior leader to own and scale our patient engagement and recruitment function across our national site network. This leader will shape the strategy, team, processes, and operating model that help connect the right patients to the right trials faster while preserving the personal, trusted experience that defines Profound.

Today, most of our patient recruiters are embedded within site teams, with a smaller centralized team providing additional support. This role will help evolve how those models work together as we scale, bringing clinical research experience, strong people leadership, and creative problem solving to how we recruit, engage, and support patients.

This is a hands-on builder role for someone who is energized by growth, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to create a patient recruitment function that is both highly effective and deeply patient-centered.

What You’ll Own

Patient Recruitment Strategy & Operating Model

Own Profound’s patient engagement and recruitment strategy across sites, studies, and therapeutic areas

Lead the continued evolution of Profound’s recruitment operating model, including embedded, centralized, and hybrid support, to improve enrollment performance and patient experience as we scale

Build scalable approaches to patient identification, outreach, engagement, pre-screening, scheduling, and retention in partnership with Clinical Operations

Establish clear priorities, goals, and accountability structures for the patient recruitment function

Translate organizational growth goals, study needs, and site realities into practical recruitment strategies

Partner with Clinical Operations, Commercial, Study Startup, Quality, Clinical Systems, Finance, and People to ensure recruitment strategies are aligned, compliant, and executable

Enrollment Performance & Functional Execution

Own recruitment performance across the patient funnel, including lead quality, outreach effectiveness, pre-screening, scheduling, show rates, screening conversion, enrollment outcomes, and retention support

Establish the KPIs, dashboards, reporting rhythms, and forecasting needed to create visibility into recruitment performance

Use data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and resourcing needs across the function

Lead study- and site-level recruitment planning for priority trials, ensuring the right strategies and resources are in place to support enrollment goals

Bring structure and urgency to recruitment execution while maintaining flexibility for the needs of different studies, sites, and patient populations

Patient Engagement & Experience

Ensure Profound’s recruitment practices reflect a compassionate, service-oriented, and patient-centered experience

Strengthen the patient journey from initial engagement through screening and enrollment in partnership with Clinical Operations

Develop approaches that expand access to clinical research for diverse patient populations and support community-based recruitment

Identify opportunities to improve patient communication, follow-up, and retention without creating unnecessary complexity for sites or patients

Team Leadership & Function Building

Lead and develop Profound’s patient recruitment team, including embedded and centralized team members

Build a high-performing culture rooted in accountability, urgency, collaboration, compassion, and continuous improvement

Clarify roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and career pathways within the patient recruitment function

Build the team structure, leadership capabilities, staffing plans, and ways of working needed to support continued growth

Coach and develop leaders and team members to strengthen recruitment execution, patient communication, problem solving, and cross-functional partnership

Process, Technology, & Continuous Improvement

Own the recruitment process and technology roadmap in partnership with Clinical Systems, IT, and operational leaders

Identify opportunities to improve consistency, visibility, efficiency, and scalability across recruitment workflows

Evaluate and implement tools, systems, vendor partnerships, and digital engagement strategies that improve recruitment performance and patient experience

Ensure recruitment processes remain compliant with clinical research, privacy, IRB, and patient communication requirements

Lead change management related to recruitment processes, technology, operating model, and performance expectations

Requirements

Essential Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in life sciences, healthcare administration, public health, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may also be considered

Meaningful experience in clinical research, patient recruitment, clinical operations, healthcare operations, or a closely related environment

Experience supporting or leading patient recruitment, enrollment, patient engagement, pre-screening, or site-level clinical research operations

Practical understanding of how patients move through the clinical trial recruitment process, including outreach, pre-screening, scheduling, screening, enrollment, and retention

Experience leading teams, projects, or cross-functional initiatives in a growing, multi-site, remote, or geographically dispersed environment

Strong people leadership skills, including the ability to coach, develop, motivate, and hold teams accountable

Ability to use data, site feedback, and operational insights to identify opportunities and improve performance

Strong cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to build trust across clinical, operational, commercial, technology, finance, and people teams

Working knowledge of clinical research compliance considerations, including patient privacy, IRB-approved recruitment materials, GCP principles, and ethical patient engagement

Strong communication skills, sound judgment, initiative, and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a clinical research site network, SMO, CRO, sponsor, healthcare services organization, or community-based research environment

Experience with embedded, centralized, or hybrid patient recruitment models

Prior experience working directly with patients or in a patient-facing clinical research, healthcare, or recruitment capacity

Experience leading patient recruiters, patient engagement specialists, call center teams, clinical research staff, or other patient-facing operational teams

Experience with recruitment technology, CRM platforms, contact center tools, schedu