Clinical Compliance Lead Job New York New York USA,Healthcare

Position: Clinical Compliance Lead, US
Location: New York

Mission

Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

Role Purpose

The Head of Compliance is the single accountable owner of clinical and healthcare regulatory compliance for Neko Health in the United States. The postholder decides whether Neko is clear to operate a clinical service in a given state and under a given clinical scope, and holds the evidence that says so: clinician licensure and credentialing, corporate structure and facility permissions, clinical policy adherence, consent and documentation standards, and readiness for external inspection.

Where a market, a service line or a clinical scope change carries a regulatory question, this role answers it and escalates the residual risk to the Senior Director, Medical Quality. Device and product regulatory obligations remain with Regulatory Affairs, and information security remains with Security; this role holds the clinical service side and works to a written boundary with both.

It exists so that members receive care from a properly licensed clinician, under a compliant scope, in every market Neko enters, and so that growth into new states is gated by evidence rather than by optimism.

What You'll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months

Develop a framework and maturity model for compliance at Neko Health using the OIG’s 7 pillars and progressing Neko’s maturity year over year.
A written compliance position per operating state covering licensure, corporate practice of medicine and professional corporation structure, and facility or service permissions, with the residual risk named.
A regulatory readiness assessment for the US clinical service against the applicable standards, with gaps logged, owned and dated.
A market-entry compliance gate that any new state must pass before a clinic opens or a service line launches, agreed with the Senior Director, Medical Quality.
Written boundaries with Regulatory Affairs and with Security, so no compliance obligation is held by two functions or by none.
A clinical policy compliance review cycle in operation, covering consent, documentation, prescribing and scope of practice, with findings routed into the quality management system.
A defined path for regulatory reporting and external inquiry, so any notifiable event or inspection request has a known route on the day it arrives.

How This Role Is Measured

Patient safety: contributes through clinical policy compliance, scope‑of‑practice control, and the completeness and timeliness of regulatory reporting on notifiable events.

Clinician competence and onboarding readiness: contributes through licensure and credential verification as a gate on a clinician being cleared to see members, and through keeping that verification current.

Perfect visit: contributes through the consent and clinical documentation standards that

form part of the composite, and through compliance review of adherence to them.

Key Responsibilities Licensure, credentialing and scope of practice

Own the clinician licensure and credentialing process end to end, including primary source verification, renewal before expiry, and removal of clearance when a credential lapses.
Maintain the register of permitted clinical scope by state and by clinician, and act as the decision point when a proposed activity…