Vice President Research & Development

Harris Computer; Michigan; Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock ownership

401k + matching

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

OnePulse, a Harris Computer healthcare software portfolio, seeks a visionary VP of Research & Development to lead a geographically dispersed R&D organization. The role shapes technology strategy, engineering execution, quality, and operations while aligning with product priorities and AI-enabled transformation.

The executive partners with Product to translate market needs into executable plans, designs, and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading healthcare software or interoperability programs.
• 8+ years in a leadership role within healthcare software.
• 5 years modernizing acquired or mature software while preserving customer commitments.
• 1-3 years integrating acquired products, teams, or technology platforms.
• 1-3 years creating shared engineering capabilities across product lines.
• Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity, quality, or delivery.
• Ability to travel 10% annually for meetings and planning sessions.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain portfolio level technology strategy across >8 products.
• Translate product priorities into realistic technical roadmaps and investments.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership across diverse stacks and environments.
• Own engineering execution: planning, delivery, release management, and reliability.
• Establish engineering standards and governance with flexibility for different environments.
• Develop a modernization approach grounded in customer value and business continuity.
• Rethink SDLC for an AI-enabled environment with governance and guardrails.
• Lead a geographically dispersed R&D organization with clear accountability.
• Manage R&D budgets, forecasts, and vendor decisions for business impact.
• Collaborate with Product, CS, Support, and other teams to improve execution.

Skills

Leadership

Healthcare software

AI in development

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget management

Job description

The Vice President, Research & Development leads the R&D organization for OnePulse, a healthcare software portfolio of more than eight products. This executive is responsible for creating a consistent and effective approach to technology strategy, engineering execution, quality, reliability, and technical operations while recognizing the different needs, maturity levels, and technologies of each product.

The VP of R&D partners closely with Product to translate market priorities, customer needs, and roadmap direction into executable technical plans. The ideal candidate combines strong technical judgment, operational discipline, business acumen, and the ability to lead geographically dispersed teams through meaningful change, including the adoption of AI enabled ways of working.

This position leads the OnePulse R&D organization and is responsible for organizational design, workforce planning, hiring, performance management, leadership development, succession planning, retention, and effective use of employees, contractors, and partners across a geographically dispersed team.

The role is remote eligible to anyone in the U.S.

Responsibilities & Duties

• 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

What We Look For

• 5+ years of experience with healthcare interoperability, clinical data, EHR, practice management, patient engagement, analytics, revenue cycle, or adjacent healthcare software domains.
• 8+ years of experience in a Leadership role, particularly in the healthcare software industry.
• 5 years of experience modernizing acquired or mature software products while maintaining customer commitments and operating continuity.
• 1-3 years of experience integrating acquired products, teams, processes, or technology platforms.
• 1-3 years of experience creating shared engineering capabilities that can be reused across otherwise different product lines.
• Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity, software quality, delivery efficiency, operational effectiveness, or decision making.
• Ability to travel 10% annually for customer meetings, industry trainings, and Leadership planning sessions.

What We Offer

• Plenty of opportunities to grow your career
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 3 weeks of vacation plus 5 personal days to recharge
• Employee stock ownership, RRSP program, 401k + matching
• A chance to give back through community involvement
• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle

Salary Range: $120 - 140K as a base salary and eligible for the CSI Bonus Program.

About Us

OnePulse is a healthcare technology company that specializes in advanced, in-office care solutions for physicians and healthcare providers. Its flagship product, OnePulse Connect, offers a suite of services within healthcare. OnePulse designed services to integrate seamlessly with practice management systems and EHRs, enabling providers to deliver care more efficiently, reduce administrative burdens, and improve patient engagement.