Healthcare Advocacy - Clinical Director (MD/DO)

Sailor Health is building a new model of care for older adults that brings the mind and the body together, combining healthcare advocacy, behavioral health, and wellness classes. As Healthcare Advocacy - Clinical Director, you will lead the physician group, shape what physicians do and how they do it, and scale the program while keeping the quality bar high. You will own physician hiring and onboarding, run day-to-day clinical operations, build the care model and protocols, and be the person physicians turn to when a case gets hard. This is a builder's role. You will be one of the first clinical leaders at Sailor and will have a direct hand in how the program grows from a small team today to a much larger one over the next year. The role is remote, US based.

Responsibilities

Lead the physician team: run day-to-day clinical leadership for telehealth physicians serving Medicare patients with chronic and complex conditions, and be the escalation point for hard cases; Hire, onboard, and train physicians at scale: own physician recruiting with the Talent team, set the hiring bar, and build the onboarding program; Build the care model for advocacy: develop workflows, pathways, and protocols for how physicians assess patients and partner with advocates on care plans; Own clinical quality and compliance: run QA and QI programs across visits and documentation, and write policies that keep the company compliant across states; Measure and partner across the company: define physician KPIs with the Data team, coach from the numbers, and turn clinical needs into priorities for Product, Growth, and Care Ops

Requirements

Active, unrestricted medical license with board certification in internal medicine, family medicine, or geriatrics; 3+ years managing other physicians as a medical director or similar, with a track record of building and developing clinical teams; 5+ years of direct patient care; Comfortable making decisions without a playbook, moving fast, and changing course when the evidence says so; Able to translate clinical judgment for non-clinical partners; Comfort working autonomously

Nice to have

Startup or digital health experience; Prior time at an early stage company or virtual care organization; Ideally licensed in 30+ states