Clinical Director

Amae Health; Pasadena (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Well-being programs

Job summary

Amae Health is hiring a Clinic Director to oversee care delivery for Pasadena and the San Fernando Valley clinics. You will partner with clinicians and operational leaders to guide an interdisciplinary team including psychiatrists, therapists, health coaches, and support staff.

The role requires regular travel between sites, strong leadership, and a commitment to high-quality, coordinated outpatient care for adults with severe mental illness. Competitive compensation and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Licensed in California in psychology or social work or counseling.
• Experience with severe mental illness (SMI) and treatment planning.
• Ability to lead an interdisciplinary care team across multiple clinics.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills; organizational planning.
• Willingness to travel regularly between Pasadena and San Fernando Valley clinics.

Responsibilities

• Lead care delivery teams across Pasadena and Valley clinics.
• Oversee admissions and intake; develop individualized treatment plans.
• Collaborate with CMOs and Medical Directors to implement processes.
• Lead daily care coordination meetings with team.
• Direct care for complex patients when needed.
• Drive quality improvement initiatives to enhance outcomes and cost efficiency.
• Document lessons learned to inform future processes.

Skills

Interdisciplinary leadership

Clinical operations

Strategic planning

Admissions management

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Mentorship

Education

CA license (psychologist/LCSW/LMFT/LPC)

Tools

Computer proficiency

Job description

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment‑resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture‑backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment‑resistant depression. We design and operate high‑acuity, in‑person clinics across the United States.

Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems.

Leading health systems collaborate with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork‑Presbyterian, Cedars‑Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health. Our investors include health systems such as Cedars‑Sinai and CommonSpirit Health, organizations that evaluated our model clinically and chose to back it.

Why We Are Different

Many clinicians who join Amae have worked in PHPs, IOPs, inpatient psychiatry, or community mental health. They understand the limitations of the traditional system. Amae was built to change that—for patients and for clinicians.

• Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side‑by‑side and share responsibility for the same patients.
• Practice at the top of your license. Manageable caseloads, meaningful clinical depth, and purpose‑built tools designed for this population.
• Continuous learning. Through our collaboration with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence‑based SMI care.
• Advancing the field. Our clinicians contribute to new outcomes frameworks and research shaping the future of severe mental illness care.
• A model built for sustainability. Team‑based care, thoughtful caseloads, and strong infrastructure make this work meaningful—and sustainable over time.

The Role

We are hiring a Clinic Director to lead the care delivery teams, programs, and systems across our Pasadena and San Fernando Valley clinics (opening soon). Reporting to the General Manager – West Region, you will partner with operational leaders to steer an interdisciplinary care team that includes psychiatrists, therapists, dietitians, health coaches, and member support specialists.

This role requires regular travel between the Pasadena and San Fernando Valley clinic locations.

What You Will Do

• Guide and support teams in day‑to‑day management with an eye toward scaling without compromising quality; craft strategic plans to evolve current procedures
• Actively oversee admissions and directly manage the intake process, assisting in the development of individualized treatment plans and level‑of‑care transitions
• Work hand‑in‑hand with the CMO, Medical Directors, and Clinical Operations Team to create, refine, and implement innovative processes
• Lead and supervise an interdisciplinary team; conduct daily care coordination meetings to oversee treatment plans
• Directly engage in the care of complex patients, offering support and intervention as needed
• Devise and implement strategic initiatives in partnership with clinical and operational stakeholders to elevate quality of care and cost‑efficiency
• Proactively identify and address issues and document lessons for future processes

What You'll Have

• Unrestricted registered license as a Psychologist, LCSW, LMFT, or LPC in the state of California
• Prior experience working with SMI, other mental health challenges, and addiction; experience creating personalized treatment plans
• Holistic perspective on health and ability to work effectively in various settings with diverse populations
• Excellent communication skills and comfort in one‑on‑one or group settings
• Strong leadership, coaching, and negotiation capacity
• Well‑organized approach with experience in planning and designing events and activities
• Basic computer proficiency
• Familiarity with the medical, mental health, and social service systems in the Bay Area preferred

What We're Building

As a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.

• A national care delivery model for the highest‑acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
• A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real‑time patient signals, and purpose‑built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
• A collaboration model with the country's leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

Compensation & Benefits

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Base salary range for this role is $125,000- $145,000. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well‑being. We'll share specifics during the interview process.

If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we'd like to talk.

What We Value

• We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.
• We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.
• We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.
• Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.
• We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.
• We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.