Director, Navigation Service Delivery

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Rightway Care Navigation helps members confidently navigate the healthcare system by combining human advocacy, clinical expertise, and technology to deliver personalized, end-to-end support. Our Care Navigation teams guide members through complex medical decisions, benefits understanding, provider selection, care coordination, and cost transparency—driving better health outcomes, lower costs, and a simpler healthcare experience.

The Director, Navigation Service Delivery is a senior operational leader accountable for scaling and continuously improving Rightway’s Care Navigation delivery team. This role is responsible for the end-to-end operational performance of the Navigation contact center, ensuring exceptional member and client outcomes, strong employee engagement, and disciplined operational execution as the business continues to grow rapidly.

This leader will build and mature a high-performing leadership team, establish operational rigor and repeatability, and partner cross-functionally across Clinical, Product, Client Success, Analytics, Finance, and Commercial teams. The Director will also serve as a client-facing operational executive, representing Care Navigation performance, risks, and improvement plans with clarity and credibility.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, employee-centric, and transformational operator: someone who thrives in ambiguity, scales teams and systems thoughtfully, and leads with empathy, accountability, and operational discipline.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Operational Leadership & Scale

  • Own and scale the day-to-day Care Navigation service delivery operation, ensuring reliable performance, quality, and compliance in a rapidly growing environment.
  • Translate Care Navigation and enterprise strategy into clear operational plans, metrics, and execution roadmaps.
  • Establish and evolve operational structures, governance, and operating rhythms that drive accountability, clarity, and sustainable execution.
  • Own financial and operational efficiency for Care Navigation by driving cost containment, productivity optimization, and disciplined resource allocation to consistently achieve budgetary goals while maintaining high-quality member and client outcomes.
  • Leverage forecasting, capacity planning, and efficiency metrics to balance growth, service levels, and cost to serve.
  • Provide executive oversight of omni-channel Care Navigation operations (phone, chat, digital, outbound), including ownership of call center performance metrics such as service levels, productivity, quality, utilization, and member experience KPIs, ensuring scalable, data-driven management as volumes and complexity grow.

  People Leadership & Talent Development

  • Build, coach, and develop a high-performing leadership team with a strong focus on growing current and next-generation leaders.
  • Mentor, challenge, and empower leaders by creating a feedback-rich, psychologically safe environment that encourages thoughtful risk-taking, learning through failure, and continuous growth.
  • Invest deeply in leadership development by providing clarity, coaching, and accountability while giving leaders the autonomy and trust to stretch beyond their comfort zones.
  • Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, retention, performance management, and employee relations.
  • Cultivate a culture of accountability, ownership, compassion, and continuous improvement across the Care Navigation organization.

  Client & Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Serve as a client-facing operational leader, partnering with Client Success to address delivery performance, risks, and remediation plans.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Clinical, Finance, Analytics, and Technology teams to improve workflows, tools, and member experience.
  • Act as the Voice of Operations and Voice of the Customer, using data and insight to influence product roadmaps, operational investments, and service design.

  Performance Management & Analytics

  • Define, monitor, and act on key operational KPIs to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Leverage root cause analysis and customer insight to drive meaningful, sustainable operational change.
  • Advance member experience outcomes, including NPS and CSAT, through targeted interventions and continuous improvement efforts.
  • Partner closely with Product and Technology teams to ensure operational systems, tools, and workflows are continuously optimized and modernized to support scale, efficiency, and adaptability in a rapidly evolving environment.
  • Advocate for solutions that reduce manual work, improve data visibility, and drive measurable gains in operational efficiency and member experience.

  Process Excellence & Compliance

  • Ensure process effectiveness through well-defined standard operating procedures, training programs, and quality frameworks.
  • Drive continuous process improvement to enhance outcomes, minimize friction, and lower the cost to serve.
  • Ensure full compliance with healthcare regulations, including HIPAA, and internal policies across all operational functions.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to inform operational evolution and continuous improvement.

WHO YOU ARE:

• A seasoned operational leader with demonstrated success scaling complex, people-intensive service organizations.
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams and develop leaders at multiple levels.
• Strategic yet execution-oriented, able to translate vision into disciplined operational delivery.
• Deeply employee-centric, with high emotional intelligence and a track record of building engaged, accountable teams.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments while bringing structure and clarity where needed.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders.
• Data-driven, analytical, and decisive, with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
• Confident and credible in client-facing settings, particularly around performance, risk, and outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive operational leadership experience, including managing managers.
• Healthcare, healthcare advocacy, care navigation, or related experience strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience leading and scaling multi-channel service delivery or contact center operations, preferably in healthcare or a regulated environment.
• Demonstrated success managing geographically distributed and remote teams.
• Strong performance management, forecasting, and capacity planning experience.
• Experience building, revamping, or scaling operations during periods of rapid growth.
• Proven ability to lead transformation while maintaining service stability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

SALARY:  $130,000-$150,000/yr

Offer amounts for both remote and in office roles are influenced by geographic location.

CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS NOTICE

In response to ongoing and industry-wide fraudulent recruitment activities (i.e., job scams), Rightway wants to inform potential candidates that we will only contact them from the @rightwayhealthcare.com email domain. We will never ask for bank details or deposits of any kind as a condition of employment. 

ABOUT RIGHTWAY:

Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Our products guide patients to the best care and medications by inserting clinicians and pharmacists into a patient’s care journey through a modern, mobile app. Rightway is a front door to healthcare, giving patients the tools they need along with on-demand access to Rightway health guides, human experts that answer their questions and manage the frustrating parts of healthcare for them.

Since its founding in 2017, Rightway has raised over $205mm from investors including Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Tiger Global. We’re headquartered in New York City, with satellite offices in Denver and Dallas. Our clients rely on us to transform the healthcare experience, improve outcomes for their teams, and decrease their healthcare costs.

HOW WE LIVE OUR VALUES TO OUR TEAMMATES:

We’re seeking those with passion for healthcare and relentless devotion to our goal. We need team members that embody our following core values:

1) We are human, first
Our humanity binds us together. We bring the same empathetic approach to every individual we engage with, whether it be our members, our clients, or each other. We are all worthy of respect and understanding and we engage in our interactions with care and intention. We honor our stories. We listen to—and hear—each other, we celebrate our differences and similarities, we are present for each other, and we strive for mutual understanding.

2) We redefine what is possible
We always look beyond the obstacles in front of us to imagine new solutions. We approach our work with inspiration from other industries, other leaders, and other challenges. We use ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with tough problems.

3) We debate then commit
We believe that a spirit of open discourse is part of a healthy culture. We understand and appreciate different perspectives and we challenge our assumptions. When working toward a decision or a new solution, we actively listen to one another, approach it with a “yes, and” mentality, and assume positive intent. Once a decision is made, we align and champion it as one team.

4) We cultivate grit
Changing healthcare doesn’t happen overnight. We reflect and learn from challenges and approach the future with a determination to strive for better. In the face of daunting situations, we value persistence. We embrace failure as a stepping stone to future success. On this journey, we seek to act with guts, resilience, initiative, and tenacity.

5) We seek to delight
Healthcare is complicated and personal. We work tirelessly to meet the goals of our clients while also delivering the best experience to our members. We recognize that no matter the role or team, we each play a crucial part in our members’ care and take that responsibility seriously. When faced with an obstacle, we are kind, respectful, and solution-oriented in our approach. We hold ourselves accountable to our clients and our members’ success.

Rightway is Proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in strength in the diversity of thought processes, beliefs, background and education and fosters an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated to drive the best business decisions possible. We do not discriminate on any basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the consideration of merit, qualifications, need and performance.