Executive Director - Heart & Vascular Services

ABOUT MARINHEALTH
Are you looking for a place where you are empowered to bring innovation to reality? Join MarinHealth, an integrated, independent healthcare system with deep roots throughout the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an affiliation with UCSF Health, an ever-expanding network of clinics, and a new state-of-the-art hospital, MarinHealth is growing quickly. MarinHealth comprises MarinHealth Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital in Greenbrae, and 55 primary care and specialty clinics in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties. We attract healthcare’s most talented trailblazers who appreciate having the best of both worlds: the pioneering medicine of an academic medical center combined with an independent hospital's personalized, caring touch. 

MarinHealth is already realizing the benefits of impressive growth and has consistently earned high praise and accolades, including being Named One of the Top 250 Hospitals Nationwide by Healthgrades, receiving a 5-star Ranking for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and being named the Best Hospital in San Francisco/Marin by Bay Area Parent, among others. 

Company:

Marin General Hospital dba MarinHealth Medical Center

Compensation Range:

$107.55 - $161.32

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Job Description Summary:

The Executive Director, Heart & Vascular Services provides strategic, operational, financial, and people leadership for MarinHealth’s cardiovascular service line across the Medical Center and Medical Network. Operating within a dyad leadership model, the Executive Director partners with physician leaders across cardiology, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, radiology, and related disciplines to advance an integrated, high-performing Cardiovascular Institute. The role is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into measurable service-line results across inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, and procedural settings, including patient access, quality and safety, growth, care standardization, financial stewardship, workforce performance, technology and capital planning, regulatory readiness, and regional competitiveness.

The Executive Director establishes clear performance expectations, uses data to identify opportunities and risks, develops leaders, and ensures that approved plans are executed in alignment with MarinHealth policies, applicable regulatory requirements, and C.A.R.E.S. standards.

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in healthcare administration, business administration, nursing, health sciences, or a related field required.
• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, nursing, or a related field preferred.
• Clinical education or professional background relevant to cardiovascular care is preferred but not required.

Experience

• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible healthcare leadership experience, including responsibility for complex operations, service-line or program performance, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing operating performance and financial results, including budgets, productivity, business planning, resource allocation, and performance improvement.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with physicians and other clinical leaders to implement operational, quality, growth, or program-development priorities.
• Demonstrated experience leading change across multiple departments, functions, sites, or stakeholder groups in a matrixed environment.
• Leadership experience in cardiovascular services or another complex procedural/clinical service line strongly preferred.
• Experience in an integrated delivery system spanning hospital and ambulatory/medical-network operations preferred.
• Experience with cardiovascular registries and performance programs such as NCDR, STS, VQI, or comparable specialty registries preferred.
• Experience evaluating clinical technology, capital investments, digital health, imaging, or procedural platforms preferred.

Licenses & Certifications

• Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred

Prerequisite Skills

• Advanced knowledge of healthcare operations, service-line management, patient access, quality and safety, regulatory expectations, and financial stewardship.
• Ability to understand cardiovascular clinical programs and workflows sufficiently to partner effectively with physicians, nursing, technical teams, ancillary services, and administrative leaders.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable plans with defined owners, milestones, measures, and follow-through.
• Demonstrated financial and analytical acumen, including interpretation of volume, access, productivity, quality, workforce, cost, revenue, margin, and market data.
• Ability to develop business cases, evaluate return on investment, prioritize capital and operating resources, and identify financial or operational risk.
• Executive-level communication, facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills, including the ability to address conflict and hold leaders accountable in a respectful, fact-based manner.
• Ability to recruit, develop, coach, evaluate, and performance-manage leaders and teams using clear expectations and documented performance standards.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, make timely decisions with incomplete information, escalate material risks appropriately, and maintain confidentiality.
• Working knowledge of clinical information systems, reporting tools, digital health, procedural technology, and data governance sufficient to sponsor and evaluate technology-enabled improvement.

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific)

• Primarily adult and older-adult patients receiving cardiovascular diagnostic, medical, surgical, interventional, or ambulatory services; pediatric exposure may occur based on service configuration or care coordination needs.
• Internal customers include physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing and technical teams, department leaders, executives, Medical Network partners, and support functions.
• External customers and stakeholders may include patients and families, community physicians, vendors, payers, regulatory/accrediting bodies, and community partners.

• (X) Infants: Birth up to 1 year
• (X) Toddlers: 1 up to 3 years
• (X) Preschool Children: 3 up to 6 years
• (X) School Age Children: 6 up to 12 years
• (X) Adolescents: 12 up to 18 years
• (X) Early Adults: 18 up to 45 years
• (X) Middle Adults: 45 up to 61 years
• (X) Late Adults: 61 up to 80 years
• (X) Late, Late Adults: 80 years and up

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance):

• Protects the confidentiality, integrity, and appropriate use of protected health information and other confidential business, employee, physician, and patient information in accordance with MarinHealth policy and applicable law.
• Accesses, uses, discusses, and discloses confidential information only as required for authorized job responsibilities and applies minimum-necessary principles where applicable.
• Promptly reports suspected privacy, security, or confidentiality concerns through established MarinHealth processes and supports corrective action within areas of responsibility.

Duties And Responsibilities:

Essential Duties (Not Modifiable)

• Strategy & Integration: Develops, recommends, and executes a comprehensive Heart & Vascular Services strategy aligned with MarinHealth enterprise priorities. Establishes annual and multi-year objectives, measures, milestones, and accountabilities that advance an integrated Cardiovascular Institute across specialties, sites, and care settings.
• Operational Performance: Leads hospital and ambulatory cardiovascular operations to improve access, scheduling, throughput, care coordination, procedural utilization, length of stay, workflow reliability, and patient experience. Uses defined performance measures and routine operating reviews to identify variance, assign corrective actions, and sustain improvement.
• Quality, Safety & Regulatory Performance: Ensures structures and processes are in place to meet applicable quality, patient-safety, regulatory, accreditation, and registry requirements. Reviews performance trends, ensures timely action on identified gaps, and escalates significant quality, safety, compliance, or operational risks.
• Physician Partnership & Clinical Alignment: Partners with physician leaders across cardiology, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, radiology, and related specialties to align clinical, operational, strategic, and financial priorities. Builds effective governance and decision-making processes and supports physician recruitment, retention, engagement, and program development.
• Growth & Program Development: Evaluates demand, market opportunity, capacity, referral patterns, competitive position, and clinical capability to guide responsible growth. Leads approved program development across areas such as structural heart, electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, vascular services, cardiac surgery, and related ancillary programs.
• Financial Stewardship: Owns service-line operating performance within assigned authority, including budget development, forecasting, productivity, expense management, revenue/volume performance, resource allocation, and variance management. Partners with Finance and Strategy on business plans, pro formas, site-of-care analyses, and corrective plans when performance is off target.
• Capital, Technology & Digital Strategy: Develops and prioritizes capital and technology needs based on clinical, operational, financial, safety, lifecycle, and strategic considerations. Partners with Radiology, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance, physicians, and other stakeholders to evaluate and implement approved imaging, procedural, AI/digital-health, and related technology investments.
• People Leadership & Performance Management: Builds and develops a high-performing leadership team. Establishes clear role expectations and goals; provides timely coaching and feedback; conducts performance evaluations; recognizes strong performance; and addresses performance, conduct, attendance, or accountability concerns promptly and consistently in partnership with Human Resources and in accordance with policy.
• Workforce & Organizational Effectiveness: Evaluates staffing models, leadership structure, spans of control, skill mix, succession needs, recruitment priorities, and workforce capacity to support safe, efficient operations. Partners with Human Resources and operational leaders on workforce planning, retention, succession, and organizational design.
• Enterprise Collaboration: Ensures effective coordination with Emergency Services, Nursing, Radiology, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Finance, Strategy, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Quality, and other functions whose work affects cardiovascular care. Resolves cross-functional barriers through defined ownership and escalation.
• Data, Governance & Executive Reporting: Maintains a service-line performance framework using reliable operational, financial, quality, workforce, access, and growth data. Communicates performance, risks, decisions, and recommendations to executive and physician governance bodies in a concise, transparent, and actionable manner.
• Compliance & Stewardship: Operates within delegated authority and complies with MarinHealth policies, internal controls, contractual obligations, and applicable laws and regulations. Ensures appropriate documentation, approvals, and governance for material operational, financial, personnel, and strategic decisions.

Secondary Duties (Modifiable)

• Sponsors or participates in enterprise initiatives that advance clinical integration, patient experience, operational excellence, workforce effectiveness, or financial sustainability.
• Represents Heart & Vascular Services on internal committees, planning forums, and external/community activities as assigned.
• Participates in strategic planning, partnership evaluation, technology assessment, and capital planning related to cardiovascular services.
• Performs other related duties consistent with the scope and level of the position as assigned.

Accommodation:

Qualified applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodation during the application process by contacting Human Resources at 415-925-7040 or [email protected].

C.A.R.E.S. Standards:

MarinHealth seeks candidates ready to model our C.A.R.E.S. standards—Communication, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, Safety—which foster a healing, trust-based environment for patients and colleagues.

Health & Immunizations:

To protect employees, patients, and our community, MarinHealth requires measles, mumps, varicella, and annual influenza immunizations as a condition of employment (and annually thereafter). COVID-19 vaccination/booster remains strongly recommended. Medical or religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law.

Compensation:

The posted pay range complies with applicable law and reflects what we reasonably expect to pay for this role. Individual pay is set by skills, experience, qualifications, and internal/market equity, consistent with MarinHealth’s compensation philosophy. Positions covered by collective bargaining agreements are governed by those agreements.

Equal Employment:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status, and any other classifications protected by federal, state, and local laws.