Vice President Clinical Product & Strategy

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%