Population Health Strategy & Operations Senior Manager

Included Health, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 148,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

PTO/DTO

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Fertility/adoption benefits

Work-from-home stipend

Job summary

Included Health is seeking a Population Health Strategy & Operations Senior Manager to optimize program operations and drive strategic execution across Care & Case Management and navigation teams. The role focuses on turning messy cross-functional work into actionable plans, using AI to boost team efficiency, and delivering data-driven performance insights.

The position reports to the Senior Director and requires senior-level collaboration, strong Excel modeling, and Looker-informed analytics.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years managing cross-functional projects in a fast-growing business.
• Operationally minded with ability to analyze a process and test improvements.
• Strong modeling skills: proficiency in Excel to build robust models.
• Proficiency with AI productivity tools to enhance efficiency.
• Ability to organize, delegate, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks in a team.
• Willingness to mentor and coach employees.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Experience with data analysis (Looker preferred).
• Healthcare experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational testing and experiments for CCM and navigation teams, including AI pilots.
• Manage cross-functional projects with timelines, milestones and KPIs.
• Own daily and weekly business readouts with the data team for visibility into metrics.
• Lead daily huddles for the CCM leadership team and act as a liaison with clinical services.
• Conduct deep dives into operations to identify bottlenecks and test solutions.
• Own executions of Population Health margin projects and improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to use AI productivity tools and automation.
• Collaborate with EPDD product partners to shape features that fit team needs.
• Anticipate risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Looker

Excel

AI productivity tools

Job description

As a Population Health Strategy & Operations Senior Manager, you will focus on the operational effectiveness of our Population Health programs. The ideal candidate balances long-term strategic thinking with deep operational expertise and is motivated by execution. Think of this role as the key operating partner for our Population Health businesses - you will lead team meetings, drive focus around key priorities, track daily and weekly metrics of business performance, and drop in deep across the team on key initiatives. You will turn messy, cross-functional work into actionable plans, leverage AI to drive team efficiency (including, and especially, ours!), and conduct deep-dive operational assessments to identify and implement efficiency drivers. This role is an individual contributor reporting to the Senior Director, Population Health Strategy & Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Operational Testing & Experiments: Drive ops testing for Care & Case Management (CCM) and navigation teams, including things like AI calling pilots, abbreviated intake pilots, and deep assessments to improve operational value
• Manage Cross-Functional Projects: Turn cross-functional work into owned, executed plans. Drive audit, transition, and staffing workstreams. Manage project timelines, milestones, and KPIs
• Data-Driven Reporting: Own daily and weekly business readouts for the CCM business and ensure metrics and reporting remain accurate and honest. Work closely with our data team to ensure the right visibility into the metrics we need, and finding the correct leading indicators as needed for operational changes
• Leadership Support: Lead daily huddles for the CCM leadership team and act as a connection point between clinical services
• Operational Deep Dives: Conduct deep dives into team operations—including shadowing our navigation, and CCM teams—to determine where bottlenecks exist and develop tests to resolve these issues. Become the business expert on how those teams operate and where their challenges are
• Population Health Strategy: Own the executions of key Population Health margin projects (e.g., by developing strategies for secondary clinician utilization and overall clinical operations improvement)
• Uplevel Team with AI: Identify opportunities to make the team more efficient and effective through the use of AI productivity tools and automation
• Product Partnership: Be the voice of operations for the Population Health team in meetings with our EPDD partners. Work especially closely with our product partners to develop the right new product features that will work with how our teams need to operate in order to drive outcomes (and margin)
• Risk Mitigation: Anticipate program risks and develop mitigation strategies; identify potential risks and assess their impact on projects

Required Qualifications:

• At least seven years of experience in a fast-growing business managing cross-functional projects
• Operationally minded: proven ability to analyze a process, identify logjams, and develop tests to resolve issues
• Strong modeling skills: proficiency in Excel to build robust models
• Proficiency with AI productivity tools to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and accelerate deliverables
• Ability to organize, delegate, coordinate, consolidate and prioritize multiple simultaneous tasks in a team environment
• Willingness and ability to provide mentoring, coaching, advice, and assistance to employees in a collaborative learning environment
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Comfort with data analysis (experience with Looker preferred)
• Healthcare experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

Physical/Cognitive Requirements:

• Ability to remain seated in a stationary position for prolonged periods.
• Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate keyboard, computer and other office-related equipment.
• No heavy lifting is expected, though occasional exertion of about 20 lbs. of force (e.g., lifting a computer / laptop) may be required.
• Ability to interact with leadership, employees, and members in an appropriate manner.
• Occasional travel required

The base salary range for this full-time position is $147,940 - $198,984 per year in the United States. This posted range reflects the portion of our internal salary band that is currently funded for new hires in this role across our standard labor markets ( Zones A-C ).

For context, these markets include Zone A (e.g., Phoenix AZ, San Antonio TX, Columbus OH, Charlotte NC), Zone B (e.g., Chicago IL, Denver CO, San Diego CA, Houston TX), and Zone C (e.g., Los Angeles CA, Seattle WA, Washington, D.C., Boston MA). At this time, we are not budgeting for hires in higher-cost Zone D markets (e.g., San Francisco Bay Area CA, New York City NY, San Jose CA) for this role. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location, skills, experience, and internal equity. We use structured salary bands and geographic zones based on cost of labor to keep pay fair and consistent.

In addition to receiving a great compensation package, the compensation package may include, depending on the role, the following and more:

• Remote-first culture
• 401(k) savings plan through Fidelity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage through multiple medical plan options (including disability insurance)
• Paid Time Off ("PTO") and Discretionary Time Off ("DTO")
• 12 weeks of 100% Paid Parental leave
• Family Building & Compassionate Leave: Fertility coverage, $25,000 for surrogacy/adoption, and paid leave for failed treatments, adoption or pregnancies.
• Work-From-Home reimbursement to support team collaboration home office work

Your recruiter will share more about the salary range and benefits package for your role during the hiring process.

About Included Health

Included Health is a new kind of healthcare company, delivering integrated virtual care and navigation. We're on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone. We break down barriers to provide high-quality care for every person in every community - no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. We offer our members care guidance, advocacy, and access to personalized virtual and in-person care for everyday and urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty care. It's all included. Learn more at**includedhealth.com**.

Included Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Included Health considers all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and California law.