
Head of Operations
Posted Sep 9

Posted Sep 9
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.
• Take charge of clinical operations, revenue cycle management (RCM), sales, growth initiatives, quality assurance, compliance, finance, human resources, and the complete patient journey and experience.
• Manage metrics such as LTV/CAC, gross margin, growth, customer acquisition cost (CAC), cost to serve, contribution margin, and cohort LTV.
• Enhance gross margin by identifying and addressing operational inefficiencies throughout the funnel, care delivery, and RCM.
• Conduct weekly scorecards, monthly reviews, and quarterly objectives across various operational functions.
• Identify and resolve broken workflows, addressing root causes, and establish repeatable processes.
• Oversee the patient journey from initial contact through onboarding, care interactions, engagement, and retention.
• Manage lead response time, channel economics, pipeline quality, conversion rates, activation, and retention strategies.
• Develop and operate advocate capacity, staffing models, service levels, productivity measures, quality assurance, and supporting systems.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams to implement AI solutions for call quality assurance, summarization, follow-up, documentation, RCM, credentialing, reporting, and manual workflows.
• Evaluate the impact of AI on cost, capacity, quality, conversion rates, and patient experience.
• Monitor key patient experience touchpoints and address issues such as dropped calls, missed handoffs, delayed follow-ups, and unresolved concerns.
• Shape product strategy, go-to-market approaches, major contracts, and Series B readiness while working closely with founders.
• Minimum of 7 years in operations within a telehealth, technology-enabled care, or consumer healthtech organization.
• Proven experience leading functional leaders, not merely teams.
• Direct accountability for managing a patient funnel, including conversion rates at each stage.
• Background in overseeing contact centers or high-volume care operations, encompassing staffing models, service levels, and quality assurance.
• Hands-on experience with revenue cycle management (RCM), credentialing, or payer enrollment processes.
• An AI-native mindset coupled with the ability to integrate AI into operations effectively.
• Strong capability in data-driven decision-making and operational problem-solving.
• Aptitude for prioritizing tasks in high-ambiguity, fast-paced environments.
• Willingness to work beyond a typical 9-to-5 schedule.
• Capacity to manage the entire operational engine rather than focusing on a single function.
• Excellent communication skills with patients and healthcare stakeholders.
• Bonus: Experience with Medicare or Medicaid populations.
• Bonus: Experience in early-stage companies from Series A to Series C.
• Bonus: Contact center operations experience catering to senior populations.
• Bonus: Collaboration with founders or executive teams in high-growth healthcare settings.
• High equity opportunities.
• Flexible remote work arrangement.
• Occasional leadership team meetings in the San Francisco/Bay Area.
• True autonomy over the operational engine.
• Direct collaboration with founders.
• A distributed work culture.
• Emphasis on Conscious Leadership Values.
• A culture focused on human connections.
• Encouragement of playful creativity.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.
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