Senior Director, R&D Venture Delivery

Vizient; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 135,200 - 236,600; Full time

Job summary

Vizient R&D is building ventures that solve complex healthcare problems. The candidate will shape early-stage discovery, translate strategy into priorities, and lead cross-functional teams across engineering, data science, commercial, legal, privacy, and operations to move ideas from concept to pilot and scale.

The role demands 10+ years leading product-led or venture-building programs, strong client-facing experience, and the ability to bring structure to ambiguity while maintaining

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading complex work in product-led, technology-enabled, consulting, innovation, or venture-building environments.
• Experience as a product operations leader, product strategy lead, or senior cross-functional execution lead.
• Proven ability to translate client input into product, pilots, and go-to-market decisions.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity without introducing bureaucracy.
• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, data, analytics, AI, enterprise software, or regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution across early-stage ventures with engineering, data science, commercial, legal, privacy, compliance and operations teams.
• Translate venture strategy and customer insight into clear priorities, roadmaps and milestones.
• Define MVPs, discovery plans, and ensure launch readiness and measurable outcomes.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and drive practical solutions.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Product operations

Product strategy

Client-facing leadership

Discovery & MVP

Ambiguity management

Executive presence

Healthcare experience

Job description

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

Vizient R&D is building new ventures that help healthcare organizations solve complex, high-impact problems. These ventures often begin with ambiguity: emerging client needs, early ideas, evolving business models, and cross-functional teams working quickly to determine what should exist and how to bring it to market responsibly.

We’re looking for a builder-minded product and execution leader to help turn that ambiguity into progress.

In this role, you’ll partner with venture leadership to move ideas from concept to validated product direction to early build execution. You’ll bring strong judgment, design awareness, client orientation, and operating discipline. You’ll also play a key role in structuring and driving client-facing workstreams, ensuring that client discovery, feedback, pilots, implementation planning, and executive touchpoints are tightly connected to venture strategy, product development, and our internal milestones.

This is a role for someone who can shape how early-stage ventures are discovered, designed, built, piloted, launched, and prepared to scale.

What you’ll do

• Lead cross-functional execution across early-stage ventures, partnering with engineering, data science, commercial, legal, privacy, compliance, and operations teams.
• Prepare and faciliti…?
• Translate venture strategy, customer insight, and vision into clear priorities, roadmaps, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Clarify customer problems, pressure-test assumptions, define MVPs, shape discovery plans, and keep teams focused on user, customer, and business value.
• Design and run lightweight venture operating systems, including planning rhythms, build reviews, milestone tracking, launch readiness, risk reviews, and executive reporting.
• Create clarity in ambiguous environments by surfacing the right questions, structuring decisions, and helping teams move forward without unnecessary process.
• Help teams adopt modern ways of working, including customer discovery, rapid learning loops, agile delivery, disciplined experimentation, prototyping, and continuous improvement.
• Identify risks, dependencies, resourcing constraints, and unclear ownership early, then drive practical solutions.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10 or more years of experience leading complex work in product-led, technology-enabled, consulting, innovation, or venture-building environments.
• Have operated as a product operations leader, product strategy lead, chief of staff, strategic program leader, venture operator, business operations leader, or senior cross-functional execution lead.
• Have led client-facing workstreams and can translate client input into product, pilot, and go-to-market decisions.
• Bring strong fluency across discovery, strategy, design tradeoffs, prioritization, MVP definition, launch readiness, experimentation, and success metrics.
• Can bring structure to ambiguity without creating bureaucracy, moving easily between strategy and detail.
• Have executive presence, low ego, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without needing to own every decision.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, data, analytics, AI, enterprise software, consulting, or other regulated environments.
• Experience supporting zero-to-one or one-to-scale product development.
• Experience introducing new tools, AI-enabled workflows, automation, prototyping methods, or knowledge management practices.
• Experience partnering with commercial teams on market validation, customer feedback, launch planning, pricing, packaging, or go-to-market readiness.
• A track record of improving how teams learn from customers, make product decisions, manage dependencies, communicate, and hold themselves accountable

Career Framework:

Management - Senior Director (M4)

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers