Clinical Specialist, Youth Mental Health

Overview

As a Clinical Specialist, you drive youth mental health initiatives across Google Health products, shaping evidence-based approaches to safety and wellbeing. You collaborate with product, design, regulatory, and research teams to embed youth-focused practices, especially around AI safety in mental health contexts. You will translate clinical expertise into product content, evaluation methods, and safety guidelines at scale. This role offers impact across products and markets, with opportunities to lead cross-functional efforts and contribute to responsible AI in health.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute youth wellbeing projects across Google Health products
• Apply methodologies to evaluate AI model performance for mental health safety and quality
• Identify evidence-based practices for youth mental health and influence product development
• Collaborate across company verticals with product, design, safety, and research teams
• Manage interactions with sensitive content and handle challenging topics
• Work cross-functionally to advance youth mental health initiatives across the product portfolio

Key requirements

• Doctoral degree in a clinical field or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of clinical experience after doctoral degree
• 3 years of suicide prevention experience (hotlines or clinical work)
• 1 year of experience evaluating AI products or digital health product development

• Outstanding communication
• People management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Experience with generative AI safety approaches
• Experience evaluating AI products in real-world use cases
• Digital health product development

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