Executive Director, AI-Enabled Health Plan Programs

Simplify Recruiting; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplify Recruiting is seeking a Senior Director – Program Management to provide executive-level leadership across a portfolio of large health plan technology programs. This remote role oversees multiple workstreams spanning software engineering, data & integration, AWS/cloud, DevOps, and AI-enabled engineering.

You will own end-to-end delivery governance, lead Technical Program Managers and technology leaders across distributed teams, and serve as a Delivery Executive for VP and C-suite

Qualifications

• 18+ years of technology program/delivery management experience.
• 5+ years in senior delivery/program leadership managing large technology portfolios.
• Experience delivering large, complex software engineering programs.
• Consulting, professional services, health tech, or managed services experience.
• Strong understanding of AWS/cloud architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading large onshore/offshore delivery organizations.
• Executive-level client and stakeholder management experience.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive-level leadership across a portfolio of health plan technology programs.
• Own end-to-end delivery governance and integrated plans across multiple workstreams.
• Lead Technical Program Managers and technology leaders across distributed teams.
• Establish governance, delivery metrics, RAID management, dashboards, and dependency management.
• Govern Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery models; manage budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure HIPAA-aware delivery, security, quality, and client governance standards.
• Act as Delivery Executive for VP and C-suite client stakeholders; lead executive reviews.

Skills

Executive-level leadership

Program management

Stakeholder management

Agile/SAFe delivery

AWS/cloud architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Governance & metrics

AI-enabled delivery

HIPAA awareness

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

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Job description

Simplify Recruiting is seeking a Senior Director – Program Management to provide executive-level leadership across a portfolio of large health plan technology programs. This remote role oversees multiple workstreams spanning software engineering, data & integration, AWS/cloud, DevOps, and AI-enabled engineering.

You will own end-to-end delivery governance, lead Technical Program Managers and technology leaders across distributed teams, and serve as a Delivery Executive for VP and C-suite