Policy Lead – Clinical Trial Abundance Movement

1Day Sooner

📍 Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time
💰$100-$145,000 USD/year 🔄 Rolling Applications

1Day Sooner represents altruistic medical research participants. We seek to accelerate medical progress by advocating for better ways to generate high-quality human evidence. We are hiring a Policy Lead to drive the policy agenda of our Clinical Trial Abundance (CTA) program.

Advances like CRISPR-Cas9, next-generation sequencing,  mRNA vaccines, and AI should be enabling a wave of biomedical innovation, but they are bottlenecked by the difficulty and growing expense of testing medicines in humans. Clinical Trial Abundance is the idea that we should make health evidence easier to generate and do more with the evidence we already have. It’s been expounded by thinkers like Ruxandra Teslo, Adam Kroetsch, and Saloni Dattani.

The Policy Lead will be responsible for overseeing and managing 1Day’s Clinical Trial Abundance policy development process. The ideas they help develop will feed into regulatory, legislative, and administrative recommendations made by a well-connected and well-resourced movement with access to a range of bipartisan decision-makers. Policy targets for our work include improving Phase 1 trials, IRBs, the use of federal datasets to generate regulatorily relevant real-world evidence, and developing the idea of a right to research. 

Key Information

• Full-time, remote position (1Day has no offices. We prefer this position to be located in the DC area, but we will consider candidates throughout the Western Hemisphere. If located outside the US, you would be employed through an international employer of record.)

• The position will report to Josh Morrison, 1Day’s President.

• Compensation: Depending on background and experience, we expect salary for the position will fall into a range of $100,000-145,000 for someone hired within the US. Elsewhere the salary will be adjusted for local markets.

  Other benefits are dependent on local requirements and the package available through the employer of record. In the US, we have a highly competitive benefits package, including up to 6% 401(k) match, 15 vacation days plus federal holidays and a week long paid holiday office closure, sick and parental leave and individual coverage HRA.

• Trial Period: Per our standard practice for external hiring, we expect the position will include an initial 4-month trial period. During that period, the employee would receive 1.25x their normal salary (as compensation for the uncertainty of future employment) until a decision is made whether to bring the employee on permanently. There would be a formal check in at 4 weeks and 8 weeks, with the 8 week check in serving as the most likely time where we would hopefully be in the position to make a long-term commitment. If we decide to discontinue employment, there would be an additional 8 weeks notice at the trial period compensation level. 

Position Responsibilities

• Set and execute policy strategy

  • Oversee and execute 1Day Sooner’s policy development process for clinical trial abundance, translating high-level goals into concrete regulatory and legislative priorities.

  • Identify mechanisms to enact policy across FDA, HHS, NIH, OMB, and Congress 

• Advance near-term policy wins

  • Drive engagement around active policy vehicles such as:

    • FDA clinical trial regulation and guidance (GCP, GMP, decentralized trials, platform technologies)

    • IRB/Common Rule reform

    • PDUFA reauthorization and FDA review incentives

    • Living HHS Open Data Plan and federal health data access

    • Data portability and real-world evidence pathways

  • Draft policy proposals, comment letters, legislative language, and briefing materials.

• Build coalitions and credibility

  • Work with the US Advocacy Director to cultivate relationships with regulators, Hill staff, agency leadership, patient groups, industry, and researchers.

  • Help convene experts and stakeholders through workshops, events, and working groups.

  • Represent 1Day Sooner publicly in policy discussions, meetings, and select media.

What We’re Looking For

You don’t need to check every box, but strong candidates will have many of the following:

• 5+ years of experience in health, science, or technology policy (government, think tank, advocacy org, industry, or a mix).

• Deep familiarity with U.S. biomedical policy institutions (FDA, NIH, HHS, Congress, or equivalent).

• Comfort working with regulatory detail and high-level strategy.

• Strong writing skills: able to produce persuasive, technically credible policy documents.

• Alignment with 1Day Sooner’s values around ethical research, participant empowerment, and accelerating progress.

Bonus (not required):

• Experience with clinical trials, drug development, or real-world evidence.

• Experience working on data governance, privacy, or AI-adjacent policy.

• Existing relationships inside FDA, HHS, or relevant congressional committees.