Medical Director of Clinical Affairs
TLDR
Serve as a vital strategic clinical partner to bridge Included Health, strategic clients, and external stakeholders while leveraging data and technology to enhance healthcare outcomes.
Pillar 1: Clinical Stewardship & Support for Strategic Clients
Executive Advisory: Serve as a trusted clinical thought leader for strategic enterprise clients, advising executive committees on topics such as clinical policy guardrails, healthcare AI integration, and benefits strategy.
Population Health Strategy & Analytics: Analyze population utilization data to develop strategies, rising-risk briefs, and clinical campaign designs that alter the cost and health trajectory of client populations.
High-Stakes Case Support: Manage the high-stakes, high-visibility, or high-dollar case desk—providing clinical case memos, peer-to-peer discussions, and member-facing clinical framing guidance.
Population Health Informatics & Efficiency: Review aggregate member health and claims data to uncover systemic inefficiencies and low-value care patterns, providing plan sponsors with clinical guidance on how to optimize their benefit ecosystem.
Joint Vendor Stewardship: Lead multi-vendor clinical rounds bringing together Included Health, client HR leaders, third-party administrators (TPAs), carriers, and other point-solutions to align on clinical action plans.
Clinically Led HCC Management: Direct the clinical narrative around High Cost Claimants (HCC) within client populations, moving HCC efforts from static reporting to active, clinically led member support.
Pillar 2: Growth Strategy & Support for Sales and External Partners
Sales & Retention Enablement: Partner with Sales and Client Success teams during high-stakes prospect pitches and renewal cycles to showcase the clinical and economic value of our programs, driving upsells, revenue generation, and customer retention.
External Representation: Represent Included Health at national conferences, industry events, and seminars to showcase our clinical performance, navigation, and virtual care capabilities.
Educational Engagement: Develop and deliver highly engaging educational materials and clinical presentations for clients, healthcare professionals, and public stakeholders.
Pillar 3: Internal Support & Business Strategy
Scalable Clinical Strategy: Partner directly with the Business Strategy team to evaluate external vendors, co-develop our clinical strategy, identify emerging market needs, and determine what clinical offerings can be delivered effectively at scale.
Professional Background / Requirements
Education: Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
Clinical Experience: Minimum of 5 years of post-residency clinical experience. High-quality clinical baseline across a wide range of medical conditions is highly preferred to support high-stakes case navigation.
Licensure: Active medical license in good standing in state of residence. Must maintain board certification in primary specialty throughout employment.
Travel: Willingness to travel up to twice per month for 1-2 days each (averaged over the year) for client engagements and conferences, occasionally with short notice.
Specialized Expertise (Highly Preferred)
Clinical Consulting & Strategy: Proven experience in clinical consulting through experience such as corporate/health plan Medical Director, clinical SME in the digital health field, or through work in healthcare consulting.
Health Plan & TPA Acumen: Deep working knowledge of Health Plans, TPAs, and commercial benefit ecosystems, with direct experience in Alternative Plan Design (APD) or health plan client support.
Population Health and Claims Acumen: Experience analyzing healthcare claims, utilization reports, or clinical data to pull out population trends, track clinical quality, and identify opportunities to improve healthcare spend.
Digital Health Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of the digital health landscape, emerging clinical technology trends (including AI in care), and virtual care delivery models.
Commercial Mindset: Ability to balance clinical excellence with business scalability, understanding how to transition high-touch clinical concepts into standardized, repeatable, and value-driven offerings.
Elite Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex clinical data, policies, or cases into clear, compelling narratives for non-clinical corporate executives.
Relationship Management & Influence: Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to influence internal peers (Sales, Product, Finance, Marketing, Strategy) and manage delicate multi-vendor dynamics.
Benefits
Home Office Stipend
Work-From-Home reimbursement to support team collaboration home office work
Family building & compassionate leave
Family Building & Compassionate Leave: Fertility coverage, $25,000 for surrogacy/adoption, and paid leave for failed treatments, adoption or pregnancies.
Paid Parental Leave
12 weeks of 100% Paid Parental leave
Paid Time Off
Paid Time Off ("PTO") and Discretionary Time Off (“DTO”)
Remote-Friendly
Remote-first culture
Included Health builds integrated virtual care and navigation solutions to improve healthcare accessibility and quality. Our focus is on delivering high-quality care for every individual, addressing barriers that exist in traditional healthcare systems. We serve communities by ensuring that excellent healthcare is within reach for all.
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals