Senior Clinical Research Associate

4/5/2026

You will manage IVD diagnostic clinical studies from site activation through data lock across multiple concurrent trials. You are responsible for driving study progress and ensuring successful outcomes through direct ownership.

Salary

80000 - 130000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

11-50 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

About The Company

RDI is a tech-enabled CRO, Biobank, and Lab that helps In Vitro Diagnostic manufacturers who struggle to get FDA clearance for their products by sourcing the blood samples they desperately need through physicians and labs. Unlike many other CROs and bio-sample vendors, RDI is vertically integrated and can source, test, and send the finalized report to the FDA faster and more efficiently through its custom remote trial management software and its wholly owned clinical lab. This vertical integration allows RDI to vastly simplify the clinical trial process while serving as a credible, unbiased and independent source for the FDA submission. In 2021, RDI was recapitalized as part of an ongoing search-fund investment model, where a young entrepreneur acquires a small business from a retiring founder. This investment transitioned RDI from a founder led business into a world-class diagnostic CRO with scientific experts and a CLIA lab that allow it to manage larger and more complex projects.

About the Role

What This Is

You own IVD diagnostic clinical studies end-to-end — site activation through data lock — across multiple active trials at once. You are not a monitor who writes reports. You are the person who makes studies move.

The Culture

RDI runs sample collection studies for the companies building the tests that detect disease before symptoms appear. Regulated, high-stakes, fast. No buffer between you and the outcome. No politics because we cannot afford them. No bureaucracy because we do not want it. This is not a place to manage a career. It is a place to do work that matters.

Who We Look For

We do not hire for credentials. We hire for how people think when things get hard. The people who thrive here have worked in environments where they had to figure things out without a playbook. They fix problems rather than document them. They are curious about how the work actually functions, not just their piece of it. They have grit — not the kind you describe in an interview, but the kind visible when a study starts failing and you stay in it.

We will teach you our systems and clients. We cannot teach you to care or to hold yourself to a standard no one else is watching.

If you want structure and a defined lane — this is not it. If you want real ownership and work that reaches patients — there is a lot here.

The Salary

$80,000 – $130,000. Where you land depends entirely on what you bring. If you are the right person we will find a way to make it work.

Why Join

Because you are tired of being a small part of a process someone else designed. Because you want to solve problems, not document them. Because you want a clear path to project management and you want to earn it by performing, not waiting.

Three or more years of hands-on CRA or CRC experience where you owned studies, not supported them. IVD, device, or diagnostics background strongly preferred. If your experience is primarily at large CROs like IQVIA, ICON, or PPD, this will feel very different — consider that honestly.

On-site in Van Nuys five days a week. Not negotiable.

Our Process

Answer three questions that describe real situations in this role. A short call. A practical assessment. A conversation with our COO and CEO.

Key Skills

Clinical ResearchSite ActivationData LockIVDDiagnostic Clinical StudiesProject ManagementProblem SolvingClinical Trial Management