Forward-Deployed Operations Strategist

Clipboard; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Clipboard Health is a marketplace that connects healthcare facilities with professionals seeking shifts. As a Forward Deployed Analyst, you will work directly with our enterprise customers to diagnose operational and product issues and coordinate the teams needed to fix them.

You will own outcomes, translate messy problems into clear workstreams, and help drive implementations across Product, Engineering, and Operations.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of experience in consulting, operations, strategy and operations, implementation, customer strategy, program management, or a similar problem-solving role
• Experience working directly with customers or clients, particularly in complex or high-stakes situations
• Strong structured problem-solving skills. You can take an ambiguous problem, figure out what matters, and create a path forward
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to investigate problems and make decisions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both senior executives and frontline operators
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence teams without direct authority
• Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple workstreams, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously
• A strong sense of ownership. You care about the ultimate outcome, not just completing your assigned tasks
• Curious and resourceful. You\'re comfortable learning new systems, processes, and industries quickly
• Persistent when things get messy. You don\'t give up when the first solution doesn\'t work
• Comfortable getting into the weeds. You\'ll need to understand operational details, systems, data, and processes to solve many of the problems you\'ll encounter
• Consulting backgrounds are a particularly strong fit, open to other backgrounds with same core skill set

Responsibilities

• Own complex customer and operational problems from diagnosis through resolution
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, challenges, and goals
• Build relationships with customer stakeholders ranging from frontline operators to VP and Director-level leaders
• Diagnose problems by combining customer conversations, operational context, data, and system behavior
• Break ambiguous problems into clear workstreams, priorities, owners, and timelines
• Lead complex customer implementations, particularly involving time clock compliance, payroll, and integrations with systems like ADP and UKG
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to investigate issues, define solutions, and drive execution
• Coordinate across Product, Engineering, Operations, and customer teams to remove blockers and keep critical initiatives moving
• Manage expectations and communicate clearly when timelines, priorities, or solutions change
• Identify recurring operational and customer problems and turn those insights into improvements to our product and processes
• Build new processes or approaches when existing ones aren't sufficient to solve the problem
• Travel to customer sites occasionally when being there in person will help move an important problem or implementation forward

Skills

Problem solving

Client-facing

Analytical

Communication

Stakeholder management

Organization

Ownership

Curious

Persistent

Attention to detail

Job description

Clipboard Health is a marketplace that connects healthcare facilities with professionals seeking shifts. As a Forward Deployed Analyst, you will work directly with our enterprise customers to diagnose operational and product issues and coordinate the teams needed to fix them.

You will own outcomes, translate messy problems into clear workstreams, and help drive implementations across Product, Engineering, and Operations.