Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Solventum is a new healthcare company focused on improving lives and empowering healthcare professionals. The Clinical Innovation Lead will serve as the clinical voice within R&D, leveraging orthodontic expertise to shape product strategy and drive innovations in treatment workflows and protocols.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands‑on orthodontic expertise to inform product requirements, clinical claims, and validation strategies across the portfolio
- Translate real‑world treatment challenges into clear clinical requirements, design inputs, and success metrics for Clinical Engineering and R&D teams
- Support the development and defense of clinically relevant product claims through research, evidence generation, and clinical rationale
- Drive innovation in treatment protocols, attachment strategies, staging logic, and workflow design, with a focus on predictability, efficiency, and scalability
- Contribute to the evolution of digital portals and end‑to‑end clinical workflows, ensuring they align with how orthodontists diagnose, plan, and treat patients in practice
- Partner closely with engineering and digital teams to ideate, prototype, and evaluate next‑generation clinical solutions
- Lead and support clinical benchmarking against competitors, including comparative evaluation of treatment approaches, attachments, protocols, and digital experiences
- Identify clinical strengths, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen portfolio differentiation and inform roadmap priorities
- Provide thought leadership on emerging clinical trends, techniques, and technologies shaping orthodontic care
- Collaborate deeply with Clinical Engineering, R&D, Digital, Marketing, and Commercial teams to ensure strong clinical alignment across development and launch activities
- Act as a trusted clinical partner in cross‑functional forums, balancing clinical efficacy with scalability, efficiency, and business objectives
- Support internal education and alignment by clearly communicating clinical rationale, tradeoffs, and implications to non‑clinical stakeholders
Skills
- DDS/DMD or equivalent with completion of an accredited orthodontic residency (or equivalent); licensed or license‑eligible orthodontist
- Significant hands‑on clinical orthodontic experience, preferably with aligner therapy and digital workflows
- Demonstrated ability to connect clinical practice with product development, research, or innovation initiatives
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate clinical insights to technical and non‑clinical audiences
- Experience collaborating with engineering, digital product, or R&D teams in industry or applied research settings
- Familiarity with treatment planning software, digital portals, and data‑driven orthodontic workflows
- Experience supporting or evaluating clinical claims, evidence generation, or comparative benchmarking
- Comfort working in ambiguity and shaping new ways of working within a growing Clinical Engineering function
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Accounts
- Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Disability Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits
- Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits
Company Overview
Solventum creates innovative products and services that enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. It was founded in 2023, and is headquartered in Minnesota City, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.solventum.com/en-us.