Job description
Aledade is seeking a strategic, driven, and rigorous Director of AI Transformation to lead a transformative initiative using generative AI to enhance and scale a next generation central services offering for Aledade’s network of >2,500 independent primary care practices. Reporting to the SVP of Transformation within the Office of the CEO, this role will serve as a hybrid subject matter expert and operational program leader, accelerating the use of AI (and especially AI agents) across key workflows such as patient outreach, scheduling, and quality measure data retrieval. The Director will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, central service operations, finance, analytics, legal, and practice-facing teams to drive strategy, implementation, and measurable impact for this critical and high visibility initiative. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of value-based care at scale by unlocking the power of AI for clinicians and their patients.
Primary Duties:
- Program Strategy, Measurement, and Management — Collaborate with executive sponsors and core team members to assist in defining strategic goals, measuring progress against those goals, and facilitating escalation of key decisions and risks across senior executive stakeholders.
- Lean Startup Style Execution — Partner with product, engineering, field, and central service business leaders to ship quickly and iterate, testing key hypotheses and developing evidence for further strategic decision making and investment. This will include project planning and management that is operationally rigorous but also lean and agile.
- Vendor and Partner Management — Source, evaluate, and manage AI and automation partners in collaboration with product, procurement, legal, finance, and security teams.
- Executive Reporting and Communication — Create and maintain live and asynchronous forums to share updates with executive stakeholders, including the CEO, highlighting progress, impact, blockers, and decisions or assistance needed.
- Emerging Use Case Exploration and Support for Other High Impact Gen AI Projects — Identify and validate new opportunities to apply generative AI in service of our mission and strategic objectives. This will include flexibly learning and contributing to other strategic AI initiatives, such as applications within EHR workflows at the point of care.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, technology, economics, or related field
- 10+ years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in a strategic program management, product operations, or digital transformation role or equivalent educational or professional experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent) strongly preferred
- Strong familiarity with applied generative AI concepts, tools, and vendor landscape, with special emphasis on agents and automation
- Experience implementing AI technologies in healthcare operations
- Strong understanding of healthcare delivery systems, preferably within value-based care or primary care settings
- Deep understanding of patient engagement, quality reporting, or scheduling workflows
- Comfort navigating legal, compliance, and security review processes, especially as they pertain to the AI procurement lifecycle
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders
- Elite communication skills, including proven ability to communicate with senior executives and drive decision-making processes
- Ability to manage ambiguity, operate autonomously, and influence without authority
- Comfort in high visibility role with intense executive attention and expectations
- Strong financial acumen and experience conducting ROI or impact analyses
- Expertise in project management methods and tools (e.g. Monday.com, Jira), or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new tools
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with detail-oriented execution
- Passion for Aledade’s mission to support independent primary care and improve health outcomes at scale
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
- Travel 0-10%
Who We Are:
Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we’ve become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of health plans, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best - keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society - and if you’re eager to join a collaborative, inclusive and remote-first culture - you’ve come to the right place.
What Does This Mean for You?
At Aledade, you will be part of a creative culture that is driven by a passion for tackling complex issues with respect, open-mindedness and a desire to learn. You will collaborate with team members who bring a wide range of experiences, interests, backgrounds, beliefs and achievements to their work - and who are all united by a shared passion for public health and a commitment to the Aledade mission.
In addition to time off to support work-life balance and enjoyment, we offer the following comprehensive benefits package designed for the overall well-being of our team members:
Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
401(k) with up to 4% match
Stock options
And much more!
At Aledade, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them! We strive to attract, develop and retain highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities where we live and work. Aledade is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions at Aledade are based on merit, qualifications, performance and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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