Strategic Project Lead - Healthcare

Appen is hiring a Strategic Project Lead - Healthcare for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appen.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions fine tuning, AI data labeling and computer vision among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Appen has 26 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

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About the Role

Appen's Strategic Project Management team is central to the company's growth strategy, partnering with leading AI companies, frontier model developers, and healthcare technology organizations to deliver the data that makes models work. As Strategic Project Lead, Healthcare, you will lead complex medical AI data programs from solution design through delivery, bridging customer objectives, clinical expertise, and Appen's global delivery capability. This is a hands-on role with visibility across both the customer relationship and the delivery model behind it.

Your Impact

You'll own the quality and direction of complex healthcare AI programs, translating customer objectives into medical data strategies. Your expertise will establish the standards for how data is designed, evaluated, and delivered.

Across Appen's global delivery organization, you'll turn those standards into repeatable approaches, methodologies, and capabilities that support future healthcare AI programs and customer opportunities.

Success in this role will create healthcare projects that meet customer and clinical standards, strong customer outcomes, and a growing healthcare data capability that Appen can apply across its portfolio.

What You Bring

2+ years in clinical practice, healthcare, medical research, or life sciences, with a track record of leading complex projects or multidisciplinary teams.
Strong stakeholder-management skills with the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear specifications.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, global environment where priorities and AI capabilities evolve quickly.

Nice to Have

Experience managing clinicians, researchers, or other specialist professional communities.
Familiarity with healthcare data privacy, security, and responsible AI governance.
Experience developing or reviewing medical datasets, annotation guidelines, clinical taxonomies, or evaluation criteria.
Exposure to AI companies, frontier AI labs, or healthcare technology organizations.

Why You'll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

How we rate this

Strategic Project Lead - Healthcare at Appen rates 69 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Strategic Project Lead - Healthcare is an open job at Appen.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Remote US and is marked remote.
The job was posted on August 26, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Appen. Apply on Appen

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
How do you keep labeling instructions consistent across a large annotation team?
Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
What have you built with speech recognition or text-to-speech, and where did it break?
How do you think about the risk of an AI system in this kind of role failing silently?

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