AVP, Clinical Programs, Analytics

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco seeks an experienced leader to design, implement, and continuously improve clinically oriented, data-driven programs. You will serve as the primary interface with external partners to optimize clinical initiatives, translate needs into structured plans, and drive milestones across markets and lines of business.

The role requires deep experience in healthcare operations, analytics, risk adjustment, and population health, with demonstrated leadership in cross-functional

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in healthcare operations, clinical programs, managed care, population health, analytics, health economics, risk adjustment, quality, or value-based care.
• Experience leading cross-functional clinical or analytics initiatives involving external partners, health plans, provider organizations, technology vendors, or data platforms.
• Experience with clinical performance measurement, quality submissions, risk adjustment, care gap closure, provider performance, utilization trends, or population health outcomes.
• Experience partnering with IT, analytics, or data management teams to improve reporting, data integrity, system workflows, dashboards, or performance management tools.
• Prior leadership experience; direct people management experience preferred but not required at role launch.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and continuous improvement of clinically oriented, data-driven initiatives.
• Serve as outward-facing interface with external partners for the design, implementation, and optimization of clinical, data-driven initiatives.
• Translate partner needs, contractual priorities, clinical performance goals, and operational requirements into structured program plans, workflows, milestones, and success measures.
• Partner with health plan, technology, quality, risk adjustment, and population health partners to support program implementation, performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Represent the organization in partner discussions related to clinical program design, data exchange, and reporting expectations.
• Develop scalable approaches for clinical initiatives across markets, partners, and lines of business as the function matures.
• Partner with Medical Economics to define, monitor, and interpret clinical performance metrics that support risk adjustment, quality submissions, and population health outcomes.
• Collaborate with quality, risk adjustment, medical management, provider performance, and analytics teams to identify performance opportunities and develop improvement strategies.
• Partner with IT to improve clinical data intake, quality, governance, integration, usability, and reporting.
• Work with dotted-line project resources to ensure milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and risks are actively managed.

Skills

Leadership experience

Healthcare analytics

Population health

Program management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Health Informatics, Data Analytics, Finance, Economics, or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of clinically oriented, data-driven initiatives
• Serve as the primary outward-facing interface with external partners for the design, implementation, and optimization of clinical, data-driven initiatives
• Translate partner needs, contractual priorities, clinical performance goals, and operational requirements into structured program plans, workflows, milestones, and success measures
• Partner with health plan, technology, quality, risk adjustment, and population health partners to support program implementation, performance monitoring, and issue resolution
• Represent the organization in partner discussions related to clinical program design, data exchange, and reporting expectations
• Develop scalable approaches for clinical initiatives that can be adapted across markets, partners, and lines of business as the function matures
• Partner closely with Medical Economics to define, monitor, and interpret clinical performance metrics that support risk adjustment, quality submissions, and population health outcomes
• Collaborate with quality, risk adjustment, medical management, provider performance, and analytics teams to identify performance opportunities and develop improvement strategies
• Partner with IT to improve clinical data intake, quality, governance, integration, usability, and reporting
• Work with dotted-line project resources to ensure milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and risks are actively managed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Health Informatics, Data Analytics, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in healthcare operations, clinical programs, managed care, population health, healthcare analytics, health economics, risk adjustment, quality, or value-based care
• Experience leading cross-functional clinical or analytics initiatives involving external partners, health plans, provider organizations, technology vendors, or data platforms
• Experience with clinical performance measurement, quality submissions, risk adjustment, care gap closure, provider performance, utilization trends, or population health outcomes
• Experience partnering with IT, analytics, or data management teams to improve reporting, data integrity, system workflows, dashboards, or performance management tools
• Demonstrated experience leading initiatives in ambiguous or evolving environments where processes, scope, and accountabilities are still being defined.
• Prior leadership experience required; direct people management experience preferred but not required at role launch.