Director, Program Management

Gainwell Technologies; Texas; Remote; USD 131,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies is seeking an experienced delivery leader to drive integrated program delivery across complex healthcare initiatives. This role requires turning plans into results, managing a global team, and aligning scope, schedule, and quality with client commitments.

You will coach PMs, forecast capacity, and coordinate product, engineering, testing, implementation, architecture, and offshore teams, while providing executives with clear delivery health insights and actionable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program or delivery leadership across complex software implementations.
• Experience in healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, pharmacy, or government tech.
• Proven accountability for large portfolios, budgets, and client implementations.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar products quickly and act with incomplete information.
• Experience coaching PMs and delivery leaders to independent ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own program delivery governance from planning through completion.
• Scale delivery capability through coaching PMs.
• Establish achievable commitments with sales and product.
• Align cross-functional teams around shared plans and responsibilities.
• Anticipate risks and drive mitigation or recovery.
• Share lessons learned and drive continuous improvements.
• Maintain executive visibility on delivery health.

Skills

Program leadership

Delivery governance

Coaching PMs

Resource forecasting

Executive communication

Job description

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

Summary

Accountability for integrated delivery across multiple complex implementation and major production programs. Hands-on leader, fast learner, and decisive doer, this person turns plans into results, resolves obstacles, and follows commitments through completion. Manages a global team of Integrated Delivery Program Managers and platform leads, leading integrated planning, execution and governance across delivery teams who own components of the solution.

Your role in our mission

• Own program delivery governance from planning through completion. Lead from deal intake through deployment and operational stabilization, align scope, schedule and quality to client commitments. Work directly with teams to close execution gaps and drive decisions into action.
• Scale delivery capability through coaching. Strengthen PMs’ judgment, planning, problem-solving, and execution through hands-on guidance and feedback. Set clear expectations, address performance gaps, and prepare PMs to independently own outcomes and drive mitigation plans.
• Establish achievable commitments. Partner with sales, product, and implementation leaders to assess upcoming deals, forecast capacity, and address resource gaps. Challenge unrealistic expectations, clarify scope, cost, and timeline tradeoffs, and negotiate executable plans.
• Put the operating model into practice. Align product, engineering, testing, implementation, architecture, platform, infrastructure, operations, and offshore teams around shared plans, clear responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Anticipate risks and recover troubled programs. Identify threats early, diagnose root causes, and lead mitigation or recovery efforts. Give executives a clear view of delivery health, recommended actions, and decisions needed. Acknowledge mistakes and follow corrective actions through completion.
• Improve delivery across accounts. Implement improvements to support aggressive DDI timelines, eliminate unnecessary handoffs, and apply automation and AI where allowed. Share lessons learned between programs, turn successful practices into measurable, repeatable improvements.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of program, portfolio, or delivery leadership across complex software implementations and production support, with experience in healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, pharmacy, or government technology.
• Proven accountability for large portfolios, budgets, and client implementations, with measurable results in delivery, program recovery, and operational improvement.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar products and environments quickly, exercise sound judgment, and take effective action with incomplete information.
• Experience directly leading PMs and delivery leaders, with demonstrated success coaching them into greater capability and independent ownership.
• Expertise in integrated planning, capacity forecasting, release readiness, dependency management, and risk mitigation, supported by financial and operational judgment.
• Ability to align matrixed, offshore, and globally distributed teams; challenge commitments constructively; resolve conflict; and communicate clearly with executives and clients.

What You Should Expect In This Role

• This role is 100% remote with the opportunity to travel through work up to 20% annually.

The deadline to submit applications for this posting is October 14, 2026.
The pay range for this position is $130,600.00 - $186,500.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.
Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.