Industry: Digital Health, Healthcare Technology, AI-Enabled Care Platforms, Population Health, Clinical Operations, and Value-Based Care
Location: USA Remote
Compensation Package: $452K – $528K
About the Organization
We are a large, enterprise-scale digital health, healthcare technology, AI-enabled care platform, population health, clinical operations, and value-based care organization supporting patients, providers, health systems, payers, employers, care teams, and healthcare partners across the United States. The company operates in a highly complex healthcare environment where clinical quality, patient outcomes, medical governance, regulatory discipline, provider performance, care delivery design, health equity, data intelligence, and operational excellence directly influence trust, safety, growth, and long-term enterprise value.
This is not a traditional medical leadership role focused only on clinical oversight, policy review, or physician advisory responsibilities. The Chief Medical Officer will serve as a strategic enterprise executive responsible for shaping clinical vision, medical strategy, care quality, clinical governance, patient safety, provider engagement, clinical product direction, healthcare compliance partnership, and evidence-based operating standards across a modern digital healthcare organization.
The company is continuing to invest in AI-enabled clinical decision support, virtual care models, population health programs, value-based care performance, care coordination, provider enablement, quality measurement, patient engagement, clinical analytics, healthcare data platforms, utilization management, risk adjustment, clinical workflow design, and scalable care delivery systems. As the organization grows, leadership is seeking a Chief Medical Officer who can bring clinical authority, executive judgment, healthcare strategy, operational discipline, and strong cross-functional leadership to a highly visible enterprise role.
The Chief Medical Officer will lead the organization’s clinical strategy across medical quality, clinical operations, provider standards, patient safety, clinical governance, care model design, healthcare outcomes, regulatory partnership, product clinical guidance, population health initiatives, and clinical performance improvement. This executive will partner closely with the CEO, Board, COO, CTO, CIO, Chief Product Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Legal, Data Analytics, Operations, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Finance, HR, and Executive Leadership to ensure clinical priorities support patient outcomes, business strategy, healthcare partner expectations, and responsible innovation.
This role requires a leader who understands both clinical medicine and enterprise healthcare operations. The ideal candidate will know how to guide clinical teams, improve care quality, advise product and technology leaders, support healthcare partnerships, evaluate clinical risk, strengthen patient safety programs, use data to improve outcomes, and build scalable clinical governance without slowing innovation.
The selected candidate will help define how the organization delivers safe, trusted, measurable, and technology-enabled healthcare at scale. This includes improving clinical quality frameworks, strengthening provider engagement, guiding AI-enabled clinical tools responsibly, supporting value-based care outcomes, improving care pathways, reducing variation, and ensuring medical decision-making remains grounded in evidence, ethics, compliance, and patient-centered care.
This is a high-impact executive opportunity for a medical leader who wants to shape healthcare transformation, guide clinical innovation, improve patient outcomes, and help a large digital health organization deliver high-quality care through technology, data, and disciplined clinical leadership.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the organization’s enterprise clinical strategy across medical governance, clinical quality, patient safety, care delivery models, provider standards, clinical operations, population health, and healthcare outcomes.
• Build and execute a medical roadmap that supports patient-centered care, evidence-based decision-making, healthcare partner trust, clinical performance improvement, regulatory readiness, and scalable care delivery.
• Partner with the CEO, Board, and executive leadership team to define clinical priorities, medical risk posture, care quality expectations, clinical investment needs, and long-term healthcare strategy.
• Establish clinical governance frameworks, medical policies, care standards, provider review routines, quality committees, escalation pathways, and clinical decision-making protocols.
• Oversee clinical quality programs, including outcome measurement, patient safety monitoring, adverse event review, quality improvement initiatives, clinical documentation standards, and care pathway optimization.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Technology teams to guide clinical product strategy, AI-enabled tools, care workflows, digital health features, provider experience, and patient engagement solutions.
• Support responsible AI adoption in healthcare by advising on clinical validation, patient safety, bias monitoring, human oversight, documentation, transparency, and appropriate clinical use cases.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to ensure medical programs align with healthcare regulations, data protection expectations, clinical risk standards, and ethical care practices.
• Lead provider engagement strategy, including clinical leadership development, physician advisory input, provider education, performance standards, credentialing partnership, and medical team alignment.
• Support value-based care initiatives through quality improvement, cost-of-care analysis, utilization trends, risk stratification, population health programs, care gap closure, and outcome-focused clinical models.
• Review clinical performance dashboards covering outcomes, quality measures, utilization, patient safety, provider performance, patient experience, care gaps, access, and clinical risk indicators.
• Partner with Operations and Customer Success to improve clinical service delivery, care coordination, partner implementation, provider support, escalation management, and patient experience.
• Represent the organization with healthcare partners, health systems, payers, employers, clinical advisory groups, regulators where appropriate, industry forums, and external medical stakeholders.
• Build, mentor, and lead clinical teams while creating a culture of medical excellence, accountability, safety, patient focus, evidence-based practice, and continuous improvement.
Job Qualifications and Requirements
• Medical degree required, MD or DO from an accredited institution.
• Active and unrestricted medical license required, with ability to maintain appropriate licensure as needed.
• Board certification in a relevant specialty strongly preferred.
• Advanced degree, such as MBA, MPH, MHA, MS, or healthcare leadership education, preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive clinical, medical leadership, healthcare operations, clinical quality, population health, digital health, payer, provider, health system, or value-based care experience.
• 8+ years of senior leadership experience managing clinical teams, medical strategy, clinical operations, healthcare quality programs, provider networks, care delivery models, or enterprise medical governance.
• Experience within digital health, healthcare technology, virtual care, value-based care, population health, payer organizations, health systems, clinical platforms, or healthcare services strongly preferred.
• Proven success in improving clinical quality, patient outcomes, provider performance, care delivery models, healthcare compliance partnership, and clinical operating discipline.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement, patient safety, utilization management, evidence-based medicine, provider performance, healthcare regulations, and care model design.
• Experience working with technology, product, data science, AI-enabled clinical tools, digital platforms, electronic health records, telehealth workflows, clinical analytics, and healthcare data systems preferred.
• Familiarity with healthcare quality frameworks, clinical measurement standards, HIPAA considerations, payer/provider operations, value-based care metrics, and clinical risk management.
• Experience working directly with CEOs, Boards, healthcare executives, physicians, clinical operations teams, product leaders, compliance leaders, legal teams, payers, providers, and external healthcare partners.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to explain medical strategy, clinical risk, patient safety, quality outcomes, and healthcare priorities clearly to clinical and non-clinical audiences.
Personal Capabilities and Qualifications
• Strategic medical executive with the ability to connect clinical quality, patient safety, business strategy, healthcare technology, regulatory expectations, and enterprise performance.
• Strong clinical credibility with the confidence to advise the CEO, Board, executive leaders, providers, healthcare partners, and product teams on medical priorities and clinical risk.
• Patient-centered and outcomes-focused, with a deep commitment to safe care, evidence-based practice, health equity, access, quality, and measurable improvement.
• Technology-forward but clinically disciplined, with the ability to support innovation while protecting patient safety, clinical integrity, privacy, and responsible medical judgment.
• Data-informed with the ability to use clinical analytics, outcomes data, utilization trends, provider performance, and patient experience signals to guide decisions.
• Strong people leader who can build clinical teams, develop medical leadership capability, create provider trust, and establish a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Collaborative and able to align Product, Technology, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Data Analytics, Customer Success, Finance, HR, and Executive Leadership around shared clinical priorities.
• Calm and decisive under pressure, especially during clinical escalations, patient safety reviews, partner concerns, regulatory matters, quality issues, or sensitive medical decisions.
• Strong communicator who can translate complex medical topics into clear, practical, and business-relevant guidance for non-clinical stakeholders.
• High integrity and discretion when handling patient information, clinical incidents, provider matters, healthcare partner discussions, compliance topics, and executive-level decisions.
Strategic Support
The Chief Medical Officer will provide strategic leadership by ensuring the organization’s clinical strategy supports patient outcomes, medical quality, healthcare partner trust, regulatory readiness, responsible innovation, and scalable care delivery.
This role will help leadership make better decisions about clinical investments, care model design, patient safety, provider engagement, value-based care performance, clinical product development, healthcare risk, and quality improvement. The CMO will ensure clinical priorities are not managed as isolated medical policies, but as an integrated healthcare operating system built around safety, outcomes, evidence, accountability, and patient-centered value.
Key areas of strategic support may include:
• Enterprise clinical strategy and medical roadmap development.
• Clinical governance and quality assurance systems.
• Patient safety oversight and escalation management.
• Value-based care strategy and outcome improvement.
• Population health and care management program design.
• AI-enabled clinical innovation and responsible medical oversight.
• Clinical product guidance and digital health workflow design.
• Provider engagement, education, and performance standards.
• Healthcare compliance, privacy, and regulatory partnership.
• Clinical analytics, dashboards, and quality reporting.
• Utilization management and cost-of-care improvement support.
• Care pathway standardization and evidence-based practice adoption.
• Health equity, access, and patient experience improvement.
• Executive and Board-level clinical reporting.
The Chief Medical Officer will help ensure the organization delivers healthcare solutions that are clinically sound, scalable, ethical, technology-enabled, and trusted by patients, providers, partners, and stakeholders.
Working Conditions
• Location: USA Remote.
• Primarily remote executive leadership environment with regular clinical strategy meetings, medical governance reviews, quality discussions, patient safety updates, product planning sessions, healthcare partner meetings, and executive reporting.
• Flexibility required during clinical escalations, patient safety matters, regulatory reviews, partner concerns, quality reviews, major product launches, Board reporting, or urgent medical decisions.
• Occasional travel may be required for Board meetings, healthcare partner meetings, clinical advisory sessions, industry conferences, leadership off-sites, provider meetings, regulatory-related discussions, or company gatherings.
• Regular collaboration with the CEO, Board, Clinical Leadership, Product, Technology, Data Analytics, Operations, Customer Success, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, HR, and external healthcare partners.
• Fast-paced healthcare technology environment with high visibility around clinical quality, patient safety, regulatory alignment, partner trust, provider performance, and healthcare outcomes.
• Role requires handling confidential patient information, clinical performance data, provider matters, quality findings, compliance materials, healthcare partner agreements, and executive communications with discretion.
Job Function
• Executive Medical Leadership
• Clinical Strategy
• Medical Governance
• Clinical Quality
• Patient Safety
• Digital Health Leadership
• Population Health
• Value-Based Care
• Clinical Operations
• Provider Engagement
• Healthcare Product Strategy
• Clinical Analytics
• Healthcare Compliance Partnership
• AI-Enabled Clinical Oversight
• Executive Clinical Reporting
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation Package: $452K – $528K
The total compensation package may include base salary, an executive performance bonus, clinical quality incentives, healthcare outcome incentives, long-term incentives, equity participation, where applicable, and additional executive-level benefits, depending on experience, qualifications, and final role alignment.
Benefits may include:
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Executive performance bonus eligibility.
• Clinical quality and patient outcome incentive opportunities.
• Long-term incentive opportunities.
• Equity or ownership-aligned compensation where applicable.
• Retirement savings plan with company contribution.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• USA remote work flexibility.
• Board-level visibility and enterprise clinical leadership authority.
• Executive coaching, medical leadership development, and professional growth support.
• Support for healthcare innovation, digital health leadership, value-based care, clinical quality, AI-enabled healthcare, and executive education programs.
• Wellness, employee assistance, and work-life support programs.
• Access to modern healthcare analytics, clinical workflow platforms, digital care tools, collaboration systems, quality reporting tools, and enterprise healthcare technology platforms.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to join a large healthcare technology organization where medical leadership directly influences patient safety, clinical quality, care delivery innovation, healthcare partner trust, and long-term enterprise growth.
The Chief Medical Officer will have the authority and visibility to shape clinical strategy, guide responsible digital health innovation, strengthen medical governance, improve outcomes, support value-based care models, and build scalable clinical systems for a remote-first organization.
You will work in an environment that values clinical integrity, patient-centered care, responsible innovation, data-driven decisions, ethical leadership, and strong healthcare governance. The company is investing in AI-enabled healthcare, digital care platforms, clinical analytics, provider enablement, patient engagement, value-based care, and scalable medical operating practices.
For a senior medical executive who enjoys advising leadership, improving patient outcomes, guiding clinical innovation, building strong medical teams, and turning clinical strategy into measurable healthcare impact, this role offers the scope, influence, and leadership platform to make a major contribution.