Remote VP, R&D — AI-Driven Healthcare Tech

Mitchell & McCormick, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Vacation and personal days

Employee stock ownership, 401k + match

Community involvement opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

OnePulse is seeking a Vice President, Research & Development to lead the R&D organization for its healthcare software portfolio. This executive sets technology strategy, engineering execution, quality, reliability, and operations across multiple products, with global teams and AI-enabled initiatives.

The VP partners with Product to translate market priorities into technical roadmaps, drives modernization, governance, and risk management, and oversees budgets, hiring, and performance across

Qualifications

• 5+ years in healthcare software leadership and strategy.
• 8+ years in a leadership role in healthcare software.
• 5 years modernizing acquired or mature software products while maintaining commitments.
• 1-3 years of experience integrating acquired products, teams, processes, or technology platforms.
• 1-3 years of experience creating shared engineering capabilities across otherwise different product lines.
• Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity, software quality, delivery efficiency, or decision making.
• Ability to travel 10% annually for customer meetings, industry trainings, and Leadership planning sessions.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a portfolio level technology strategy across more than eight products, balancing stability, modernization, customer commitments, regulatory expectations, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with other business leaders to translate product priorities into realistic technical roadmaps, capacity plans, sequencing, and investment recommendations.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership across products built with varied technology stacks, programming languages, databases, hosting models, integration patterns, and legacy constraints.
• Own engineering execution, including planning, delivery predictability, release management, quality engineering, product reliability, incident learning, and technical escalation.
• Establish practical engineering standards and governance while allowing appropriate flexibility for each product and technology environment.
• Develop a pragmatic modernization approach grounded in customer value, business continuity, risk reduction, maintainability, and financial reality.
• Rethink the software development lifecycle for an AI enabled environment, applying AI across development, testing, documentation, operations, and engineering decision making.
• Establish appropriate AI guardrails for security, privacy, intellectual property, data handling, compliance, risk, governance, and human review, and measure whether adoption improves quality, throughput, cycle time, or customer value.
• Lead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed R&D organization across products and time zones, with clear decision rights, goals, accountability, succession plans, and reduced key person dependencies.
• Own R&D budgets, forecasts, workforce plans, vendor decisions, and investment tradeoffs, connecting technology decisions to customer impact and business outcomes.
• Work effectively across Product, Customer Success, Support, Professional Services, Hosting, Security, Sales, Finance, and other operating teams to improve execution and customer outcomes.
• Act as the senior point of escalation for R&D issues and communicate technical choices, risks, costs, timing, and consequences clearly to executive leadership.
• Travel: as required for customer, team, leadership, user group, and industry meetings

Skills

Healthcare leadership

AI in engineering

Strategic technology leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Job description

OnePulse is seeking a Vice President, Research & Development to lead the R&D organization for its healthcare software portfolio. This executive sets technology strategy, engineering execution, quality, reliability, and operations across multiple products, with global teams and AI-enabled initiatives.

The VP partners with Product to translate market priorities into technical roadmaps, drives modernization, governance, and risk management, and oversees budgets, hiring, and performance across