Vice President Research and Development
Practice Area
Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT
Region
Anywhere
Anywhere
Location
On-Site
On-Site
Company Location
New York NY
New York NY
Position Id
48660
48660
Vice President Research and Development
Job Description
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Client Summary:
- Uses advanced technology to support more efficient care coordination and management.
- Designed to help care teams operate effectively at scale.
- Focuses on improving workflows, productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Supports proactive risk management and improved care delivery.
- Aims to reduce costs while enabling readiness for value-based care models.
- Own end-to-end delivery of the product roadmap across platform, integrations, AI features, and infrastructure
- Lead, scale, and manage the in-house engineering team with clear planning, prioritization, timelines, and accountability
- Ensure predictable, high-quality engineering output aligned with business priorities, emphasizing simplicity, stability, and speed
- Own platform reliability, uptime, performance, testing, release management, and incident response
- Establish processes that prevent regressions, eliminate recurring issues, and improve handoffs and ownership
- Own engineering responsibility for HIPAA compliance, data security, access controls, and audit readiness
- Partner cross-functionally to translate regulatory and contractual requirements into clear, practical engineering execution
- Define and execute the technical strategy for EHR integrations, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and scalability
- Operate with startup-level urgency while balancing speed and quality during rapid growth
- Partner closely with Product, Customer Success, Sales, and Leadership to evolve from founder-led execution to a scalable operating cadence
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 12+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles
- Prior experience as Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, or VP R&D in a SaaS company
- Strong background in healthcare technology, regulated SaaS, or data sensitive platforms
- Proven ability to scale in house engineering teams in a fast growth environment
- Deep understanding of how startups actually operate, not just how they should operate on paper
- Clear communicator who can translate technical reality into business language
- Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and operational discipline
- Participation in Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance (Benefits includes option for FSA, HAS and transit tax benefits)
- Participation in 401K (currently no matching)
- 18 days PTO
- Stock Options