VP, Clinical Product & Strategy

Strive Health; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-Remote Flexibility

Comprehensive Benefits

Financial & Retirement Support

Time Off & Leave

Wellness & Growth

Job summary

Strive Health is seeking a strategic, clinically grounded, and highly collaborative executive to own the enterprise clinical product and innovation portfolio. You will align product strategy with kidney care workflows and value-based care, guiding concepts from design through pilot to scalable implementation to improve care outcomes.

The role reports to the Chief Medical Officer and offers remote work with periodic travel to Denver and other Strive locations.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical degree or equivalent experience in healthcare delivery, administration, informatics, product strategy, or a related field; clinical licensure strongly preferred.
• 14+ years of progressive healthcare experience, including care delivery, clinical operations, product strategy, innovation, program development, or consulting.
• 8+ years leading cross-functional initiatives, portfolios, products, or programs in a complex healthcare environment.
• Experience evaluating and prioritizing programs, products, services, or investments and implementing change across distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of clinical workflows and care delivery; ability to influence without authority and align leaders on difficult decisions.
• Excellent executive communication, judgment, and ability to operate effectively with ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
• Ability to travel and be on-site to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise clinical product and innovation strategy aligned with Strive’s mission, care model, priorities, and established value targets.
• Own the framework for evaluating, approving, prioritizing, and sequencing clinical programs, workflows, and technology-enabled capabilities with Operations, TCOC, Finance, and other partners.
• Build and manage a focused portfolio across the patient journey, including what to build, buy, or partner with to deliver expected outcomes.
• Build the capabilities and talent needed as the portfolio matures.
• Lead end-to-end development of new clinical programs and clinical model or workflow changes in partnership with Clinical, Operations, Technology, Analytics, Finance, TCOC, and other stakeholders.
• Translate opportunities into program concepts, workflows, staffing and technology requirements, implementation and go-live plans, and measures tied to established value targets.
• Ensure designs are scalable, clinically sound, safe, measurable, and informed by frontline insight.
• Monitor progress toward established value targets with TCOC and recommend portfolio changes based on evidence, economics, adoption, performance, and strategic fit.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Advanced clinical degree or equivalent in healthcare delivery/administration/informatics/product strategy

Job description

How You’ll Make An Impact

At Strive Health, patients come first. We’re on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier, coordinating thoughtful care, and supporting people through every stage of their health journey.

Our work reduces emergency visits, improves outcomes, and helps patients live fuller lives. You’ll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact, show up for one another as One Team, and find ways to elevate the everyday.

If you’re looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter, you’ll feel right at home at Strive!

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid-Remote Flexibility – Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office, clinic, or patient home visits.
• Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee assistance programs, employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance, plus health and flexible spending accounts.
• Financial & Retirement Support – Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program, 401k with employer match, and financial wellness resources.
• Time Off & Leave – Paid holidays, vacation time, sick time, and paid birthgiving, bonding, sabbatical, and living donor leaves.
• Wellness & Growth – Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks, mental health support, and an annual professional development stipend.

Strive Health is seeking a strategic, clinically grounded, and highly collaborative Vice President, Clinical Product & Strategy to own the enterprise clinical product and innovation portfolio. The role brings together enterprise clinical product strategy with clinical design and operational enablement. It owns the clinical portfolio’s strategic direction, prioritization, program concepts, and evidence-based recommendations. The VP will connect portfolio strategy to the realities of Kidney Hero workflows and value-based kidney care, working collaboratively across the organization to move opportunities from concept through design, pilot, and scalable implementation to deliver improved care outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep understanding of care delivery with strong clinical product strategy, implementation leadership, and organizational leadership capabilities. They are equally comfortable engaging frontline clinicians, designing and implementing a new care model, pressure-testing an investment thesis, and aligning Total Cost of Care (TCOC), Operations, Technology, and clinical leaders to deliver expected results.

Reports to: Chief Medical Officer

Location: Remote, with periodic travel to Denver and other Strive locations as needed

What you’ll do

Clinical product and portfolio strategy

• Set the enterprise clinical product and innovation strategy aligned with Strive’s mission, care model, priorities, and established value targets.
• Own the framework for evaluating, approving, prioritizing, and sequencing clinical programs, workflows, and technology-enabled capabilities with Operations, TCOC, Finance, and other partners.
• Build and manage a focused portfolio across the patient journey, including what to build, buy, or partner with to deliver expected outcomes.
• Build the capabilities and talent needed as the portfolio matures.

Program development and design

• Lead end-to-end development of new clinical programs and clinical model or workflow changes in partnership with Clinical, Operations, Technology, Analytics, Finance, TCOC, and other stakeholders.
• Translate opportunities into program concepts, workflows, staffing and technology requirements, implementation and go-live plans, and measures tied to established value targets.
• Ensure designs are scalable, clinically sound, safe, measurable, and informed by frontline insight.

Business case and investment prioritization

• Partner with Finance, Analytics, and TCOC on business cases covering investment, staffing, outcomes, utilization, revenue or savings, expected value, and return on investment.
• Own approval, prioritization, and sequencing of initiatives and clinical model changes to meet expected clinical and financial results.
• Monitor progress toward established value targets with TCOC and recommend portfolio changes based on evidence, economics, adoption, performance, and strategic fit.

Cross-functional leadership

• Establish governance, decision rights, stage gates, and operating rhythms across Clinical, Operations, TCOC, Technology, Finance, Analytics, Quality, Compliance, Clinical Training, and Operations Enablement.
• Own implementation plans and go-live readiness; partner with Operations Enablement on go-live, Clinical Training on training delivery, and Operations Owners on local deployment, adoption, adherence, and performance execution.
• Partner with Technology and Digital Product to translate clinical and operational needs into sequenced, technology-enabled solutions.
• Align clinical, operational, and frontline leaders around tradeoffs, priorities, and decisions.

Measurement, learning, and scale

• Use TCOC enterprise measurement, Operations performance data, and frontline feedback to improve programs and clinical model design.
• Apply lessons from pilots, implementation, go-live, adoption, and performance execution to recommend scaling, modifying, pausing, or discontinuing initiatives.

What we’re looking for

Minimum qualifications

• Advanced clinical degree or equivalent experience in healthcare delivery, administration, informatics, product strategy, or a related field; clinical licensure strongly preferred.
• 14+ years of progressive healthcare experience, including care delivery, clinical operations, product strategy, innovation, program development, or consulting.
• 8+ years leading cross-functional initiatives, portfolios, products, or programs in a complex healthcare environment.
• Experience evaluating and prioritizing programs, products, services, or investments and implementing change across distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of clinical workflows and care delivery; ability to influence without authority and align leaders on difficult decisions.
• Excellent executive communication, judgment, and ability to operate effectively with ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
• Ability to travel and be on-site to meet business needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in value-based care, population health, kidney care, chronic disease management, Medicare Advantage, or other risk-based care models.
• Experience partnering with Technology, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Finance teams.
• Experience taking programs from concept through pilot and scaled implementation; MBA, MHA, MS, or another relevant advanced degree.

Annual Salary Range: $173,000 - $231,000. This position is also eligible for a target annual bonus of 30%.

Final compensation will be determined based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Strive Health will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.