VP of AI-Driven Healthcare R&D & Engineering

Harris Computer

North Carolina

Remote

USD 120,000 - 140,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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Medical, dental, vision benefits

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Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

OnePulse is seeking a visionary VP of Research & Development to lead the R&D organization for its healthcare software portfolio, balancing strategy, execution, quality, and operations across multiple products. The role partners with Product to translate market priorities into technical roadmaps, guides distributed teams, and drives AI-enabled modernization while ensuring reliability and business outcomes.

Remote eligibility within the U.S.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in healthcare interoperability, clinical data, EHR, or related healthcare software domains.
8+ years in a Leadership role, particularly in healthcare software.
5 years modernizing acquired or mature software with customer commitments.

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