Director of AI Transformation, Remote

Aledade is seeking a strategic, driven, and rigorous Director of AI Transformation to lead a transformative initiative using generative AI to enhance and scale a next generation central services offering for Aledade’s network of >2,500 independent primary care practices. Reporting to the SVP of Transformation within the Office of the CEO, this role will serve as a hybrid subject matter expert and operational program leader, accelerating the use of AI (and especially AI agents) across key workflows such as patient outreach, scheduling, and quality measure data retrieval. The Director will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, central service operations, finance, analytics, legal, and practice-facing teams to drive strategy, implementation, and measurable impact for this critical and high visibility initiative. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of value-based care at scale by unlocking the power of AI for clinicians and their patients.

Primary Duties:

• Program Strategy, Measurement, and Management — Collaborate with executive sponsors and core team members to assist in defining strategic goals, measuring progress against those goals, and facilitating escalation of key decisions and risks across senior executive stakeholders. 
• Lean Startup Style Execution — Partner with product, engineering, field, and central service business leaders to ship quickly and iterate, testing key hypotheses and developing evidence for further strategic decision making and investment. This will include project planning and management that is operationally rigorous but also lean and agile. 
• Vendor and Partner Management — Source, evaluate, and manage AI and automation partners in collaboration with product, procurement, legal, finance, and security teams.
• Executive Reporting and Communication — Create and maintain live and asynchronous forums to share updates with executive stakeholders, including the CEO, highlighting progress, impact, blockers, and decisions or assistance needed. 
• Emerging Use Case Exploration and Support for Other High Impact Gen AI Projects — Identify and validate new opportunities to apply generative AI in service of our mission and strategic objectives. This will include flexibly learning and contributing to other strategic AI initiatives, such as applications within EHR workflows at the point of care. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, technology, economics, or related field
• 10+ years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in a strategic program management, product operations, or digital transformation role or equivalent educational or professional experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent) strongly preferred
• Strong familiarity with applied generative AI concepts, tools, and vendor landscape, with special emphasis on agents and automation
• Experience implementing AI technologies in healthcare operations
• Strong understanding of healthcare delivery systems, preferably within value-based care or primary care settings
• Deep understanding of patient engagement, quality reporting, or scheduling workflows
• Comfort navigating legal, compliance, and security review processes, especially as they pertain to the AI procurement lifecycle
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• Elite communication skills, including proven ability to communicate with senior executives and drive decision-making processes
• Ability to manage ambiguity, operate autonomously, and influence without authority
• Comfort in high visibility role with intense executive attention and expectations
• Strong financial acumen and experience conducting ROI or impact analyses
• Expertise in project management methods and tools (e.g. Monday.com, Jira), or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new tools
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with detail-oriented execution
• Passion for Aledade’s mission to support independent primary care and improve health outcomes at scale 

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
• Travel 0-10%

Who We Are:Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by crea