About the role

The Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) will serve as Covera’s senior clinical leader, positioned at the intersection of clinical practice, payer and employer quality programs, and AI product validation. The CCO will ensure the integrity, consistency, and impact of Covera’s flagship initiatives, including Guide and Match, the Radiology Centers of Excellence program, and Protect AI, the company’s AI oversight and quality assurance platform. This leader will oversee clinical standards and validation of AI findings, guide radiologist partners who review and provide feedback on diagnostic quality, and ensure that Covera’s programs deliver measurable value across patients, providers, health plans, employers, and government payers. The CCO will also represent Covera’s clinical leadership externally, reinforcing the company’s position as the trusted partner in advancing diagnostic quality through AI-enabled innovation.

In this role, you will be expected to:

Clinical Quality & Standards Oversight

• Ensure that AI-identified errors and omissions are validated through rigorous clinical review by radiologists engaged with Covera.
• Oversee onboarding, training, and monitoring of radiologist partners who validate findings and provide structured feedback to participating practices.
• Implement systems for peer review, interpretive consistency, and ongoing case-based and aggregate feedback.
• Maintain a limited level of personal reads/validations to reinforce credibility and hands-on expertise.

AI Validation & Clinical Integration

• Lead clinical validation of new AI tools, ensuring they meet standards for diagnostic accuracy, reliability, and patient impact.
• Partner with product, AI, and data science teams to integrate validated tools into Protect AI and payer/employer-facing programs.
• Maintain clinical oversight of AI performance in production workflows, ensuring feedback loops to radiologists, practices, and product teams.

Clinical Program Leadership (Guide and Match & Protect AI)

• Provide clinical governance for Guide and Match, ensuring participating practices consistently deliver high-quality diagnostic care.
• Lead clinical oversight for Protect AI, ensuring AI tools and workflows operate under rigorous quality and safety standards.
• Develop and oversee reporting frameworks that measure and communicate quality outcomes at both the practice level and across networks.
• Continuously update clinical guidelines and quality standards to reflect emerging best practices, ensuring continuous improvement across both programs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Represent the clinical perspective in collaboration with product, AI, and operations leaders, influencing roadmap and program design.
• Work closely with payer and employer partners, ensuring quality measures are aligned with their needs across government, health plan, and employer programs.

External Engagement & Market Representation

• Serve as Covera’s clinical ambassador in payer, provider, and employer discussions.
• Represent Covera’s clinical leadership at conferences, regulatory forums, and industry events.
• Share results and case studies from Guide and Match and Protect AI to highlight Covera’s impact on diagnostic quality improvement.

Talent & Culture Contribution

• Play an active role in further building the Covera team by joining interview panels and contributing to cross-company projects after onboarding

Requirements:

• M.D. degree with at least 5+ years of clinical experience in radiology.
• Experience in healthcare innovation (e.g., deploying AI tools) and payer/provider collaboration (not solely clinical practice).
• Demonstrated leadership in quality oversight, clinical governance, or program development.
• Experience validating and integrating AI or digital tools in healthcare.
• Prior start-up or growth-stage company experience is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with radiology quality improvement programs (e.g., peer review/peer learning frameworks).
• Strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills, with ability to bridge clinicians, product/AI teams, payers, and employers.
• Established credibility within the radiology community and relationships across providers, health systems, or academic centers.
• Passion for advancing diagnostic quality through clinically rigorous, AI-enabled healthcare innovation

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plans - choose from three plans, including one with 100% of premiums covered for you and your dependents
• Vision & Dental
• Flexible Time Off - take the time you need, when you need it
• Covera Fridays - once a month, Covera takes a fully paid day off to unplug and recharge
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Annual Professional Development Stipend to invest in courses, books, or any other professional development related activity
• Annual Wellness stipend for fitness, mental health or other wellness expenses

The minimum and maximum base salary for this position ranges from $375,000 - $475,000+, in addition to a discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits package. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including but not limited to, a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, expertise and location. Final compensation decisions may occasionally fall outside of the posted range. Salary ranges are periodically reviewed and may be adjusted in response to market trends and company needs.

At Covera Health, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our technology. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Covera Health is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.