[Hiring] Senior Director, R&D Venture Delivery @Vizient

Role Description

Vizient R&D is building new ventures that help healthcare organizations solve complex, high-impact problems. We’re looking for a builder-minded product and execution leader to help turn ambiguity into progress.

In this role, you’ll partner with venture leadership to:

• Lead cross-functional execution across early-stage ventures, partnering with engineering, data science, commercial, legal, privacy, compliance, and operations teams.
• Prepare and facilitate client working sessions, discovery conversations, pilot reviews, and executive touchpoints that build trust, alignment, and momentum.
• Translate venture strategy, customer insight, and vision into clear priorities, roadmaps, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Clarify customer problems, pressure-test assumptions, define MVPs, shape discovery plans, and keep teams focused on user, customer, and business value.
• Design and run lightweight venture operating systems, including planning rhythms, build reviews, milestone tracking, launch readiness, risk reviews, and executive reporting.
• Create clarity in ambiguous environments by surfacing the right questions, structuring decisions, and helping teams move forward without unnecessary process.
• Help teams adopt modern ways of working, including customer discovery, rapid learning loops, agile delivery, disciplined experimentation, prototyping, and continuous improvement.
• Identify risks, dependencies, resourcing constraints, and unclear ownership early, then drive practical solutions.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience leading complex work in product-led, technology-enabled, consulting, innovation, or venture-building environments.
• Experience as a product operations leader, product strategy lead, chief of staff, strategic program leader, venture operator, business operations leader, or senior cross-functional execution lead.
• Experience leading client-facing workstreams and translating client input into product, pilot, and go-to-market decisions.
• Strong fluency across discovery, strategy, design tradeoffs, prioritization, MVP definition, launch readiness, experimentation, and success metrics.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity without creating bureaucracy, moving easily between strategy and detail.
• Executive presence, low ego, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without needing to own every decision.

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, data, analytics, AI, enterprise software, consulting, or other regulated environments.
• Experience supporting zero-to-one or one-to-scale product development.
• Experience introducing new tools, AI-enabled workflows, automation, prototyping methods, or knowledge management practices.
• Experience partnering with commercial teams on market validation, customer feedback, launch planning, pricing, packaging, or go-to-market readiness.
• A track record of improving how teams learn from customers, make product decisions, manage dependencies, communicate, and hold themselves accountable.

Benefits

• Current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.
• This position is also incentive eligible.
• Comprehensive benefits plan available.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.