VP, Operations

About Pair Team

Pair Team is a public benefit company reimagining care for the safety net. As an AI-enabled medical group for Medicaid and Medicare, we deliver medical, behavioral, and social care by integrating shelters, pantries and other community-based organizations into our whole-person model. As California’s largest complex care provider, we’ve proven our impact to reduce avoidable emergency care, including a 52% and 26% reduction in ER visits and hospitalizations respectively. Once scaled nationally, our approach would save tax payers $150B per year.

With our years of experience and vast data collected, we are now building an AI platform that embeds social work agents across the safety net to truly unify our fragmented healthcare and welfare system. By scaling our country’s frontline medical and social services workforce, we aim to bring high-touch care to everyone.

At Pair Team, we’re not just delivering care—we’re transforming it. We’re building a future where high-touch, community-driven care is accessible to everyone, especially the most underserved.

• Forbes: For Pair Team, Accessibility Is About Delivering Healthcare To Those Who Need It The Most
• TechCrunch: Building for Medicaid’s regulatory moment with Neil Batlivala from Pair Team
• Journal of General Internal Medicine: A Novel Intervention for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Complex Needs

About the Opportunity

As the VP, Operations at Pair Team, you will play a critical role in leading the day-to-day and growth of Pair Team’s most prominent program. You'll ensure operational excellence, payer alignment, and scalable care delivery while working on mission-critical programs that help fuel the future direction of the company. This high-impact leadership role is at the center of our mission to transform care for underserved communities. 

This is a fully remote position reporting to the SVP of Field Operations.

What You'll Do

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of our Enhanced Care Management (ECM) program to ensure delivery targets are consistently achieved
• Grow, manage, and scale a large, multi-disciplinary care operations team, which includes case managers, nurses and behavioral health providers
• Manage the P&L, including unit economics, for your service line
• Design and optimize workflows, processes, and staffing models to balance scalability, growth, and patient experience
• Collaborate with thought partners in product, clinical, finance and growth to ensure operational readiness for new initiatives
• Introduce and operationalize performance metrics to drive accountability in alignment with organizational priorities 
• Lead change management efforts as they arise; which include but aren’t limited to: reorganizations, KPI rollouts, growth initiatives, etc.
  
  

What You'll Need

• 8+ years of experience in operations with at least 5+ years of experience developing and  leading large field teams
• Experience with managing a P&L, including unit economics
• Well versed in driving key performance metrics, building a high-performing team, and change management
• Ownership mindset – own driving results for the mission, business, and customer experience
• Strong collaboration skills with thought partners from product, clinical and finance teams
• Proven ability to translate operational needs into clear product requirements and able to drive them from ideation to execution with technical leaders/functions
• Strong desire to work in an early stage startup environment that is fast paced, complex, and has minimal barriers to make decisions (no “red tape”), and requires a “roll up your sleeves” attitude
• Passion for helping individuals experiencing complex chronic needs such as homelessness, severe mental illness, and substance use disorder
• Bonus points for additional experience in healthcare, scaling field-based care delivery models, introducing new performance frameworks, and/or coaching managers through transitions
• Able to flex your schedule to support a California-based team in a fully remote environment

Our Values

• Lead with integrity: We keep our commitments and take responsibility for our actions. We are dependable and choose authenticity over perfection.
• Embrace challenges: We leave our egos at the door and step forward into discomfort instead of back into safety. We help each other to learn and provide feedback using candor and kindness.
• Break through walls: We go the extra mile for our patients, partners and one another, and we run toward hard things. We are resilient in our push for consistent improvement and challenge the status quo.
• Act beyond yourself: We build each other up and respect boundaries. We seek first to understand and assume positive intent.
• Care comes first: We hold ourselves to the highest standards for our patients. We are relentless in the pursuit of our mission, and ensure that we are taking care of ourselves in order to care for others.

Because We Value You

• Competitive salary: $215,000 - $230,000 
• Equity compensation package
• Flexible vacation policy – take the time you need to recharge
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• 100% company-sponsored short and long-term disability and life insurance
• Subsidized backup childcare and caregiver supports through Wellthy
• Work entirely from the comfort of your own home
• Monthly $100 work from home expense stipend 
• We provide the equipment needed for the role
• Opportunity for rapid career progression with plenty of room for personal growth!