Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Evolent is building a new AI platform from the ground up, and this role owns the end-to-end program delivery. As Director, Strategic Initiatives, you will lead the strategy and execution of the AI-native platform components that every AI capability across the company will be built on. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in large-scale technology program leadership, platform modernization and application migration, and cross-functional delivery, with a demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, align diverse technical and business stakeholders, and drive sustainable delivery outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Program Leadership & Delivery
- Lead end-to-end program delivery of the AI-native platform – managing program governance, risks, dependencies, and execution across multiple parallel workstreams.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across architecture, engineering, product, data science, and business teams to manage dependencies, accelerate decision-making, and ensure platform capabilities deliver scalable operational outcomes, measurable business value, and sustainable adoption.
- Establish and monitor KPIs and value realization metrics, including delivery milestones, platform performance, quality, adoption, financial impact, and stakeholder satisfaction; provide executive reporting on progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
· Lead, coach and guide project managers, fostering a culture of high performance, innovation, collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
Platform Migration & Adoption
- Lead migration of AI agents and applications onto the new platform, including planning, testing, validation, and cutover.
- Facilitate platform onboarding standards, architecture patterns, and development requirements to ensure future AI capabilities are built natively on the platform.
- Drive architecture and design decisions that accelerate adoption while minimizing technical debt.
Technical Governance, Risk, and Responsible AI
- Embed responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, and clinical safety requirements into platform delivery.
- Ensure adherence to contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
- Identify and mitigate delivery, operational, technical, and compliance risks.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- 7-10+ years of program management experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs, including the development and implementation of net-new platform capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture, engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver platform modernization initiatives and application migrations.
- Demonstrated success leading highly complex cross-functional initiatives and aligning business, operational, and technology stakeholders toward shared outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across competing stakeholder groups.
· Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience developing and monitoring KPIs and value realization metrics to track delivery performance, adoption, risks, trends, and business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters’s degree in Business, Technology, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- Program management certification (PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent).
- Experience delivering event-driven architectures, document or data processing pipelines, cloud-native platforms, or AI/ML and intelligent workflow solutions.
- Working knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and prior authorization workflows.
- Healthcare, payer, provider, utilization management, or regulated industry experience preferred.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to lead the build-out of an AI-native platform from the ground up.
- Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams, including architecture, engineering, product, data science, and operations.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
If you are passionate about building the technology platform that powers AI in healthcare and want to play a pivotal role in shaping AI-driven transformation, we’d love to hear from you!
To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
Technical Requirements:
We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $130,000-140,000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Healthcare Administration, or a related field
- 7-10+ years of program management experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs
- Experience developing and implementing net-new platform capabilities
- Experience leading architecture, engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders through platform modernization and application migrations
- Success leading highly complex cross-functional initiatives and aligning business, operational, and technology stakeholders
- Ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across competing stakeholder groups
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience developing and monitoring KPIs and value realization metrics
- Master's degree in Business, Technology, Healthcare Administration, or a related field
- Program management certification such as PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent
- Experience with event-driven architectures, document or data processing pipelines, cloud-native platforms, or AI/ML and intelligent workflow solutions
- Working knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and prior authorization workflows
- Healthcare, payer, provider, utilization management, or regulated industry experience
Evolent Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evolent Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Evolent Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Salaried roles commonly include unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays, volunteer time off, and a sabbatical option after several years. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a meaningful lifestyle strength for many roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with a publicly highlighted emphasis on mental-health resources, including a 2026 Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America. This recognition signals above-baseline support for employee health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first approach for most positions and flexible work arrangements are consistently emphasized. Feedback suggests these elements add notable non-cash value to the overall package.
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What We Do
Evolent Health delivers proven clinical and administrative solutions that improve whole person health while making health care simpler and more affordable. Our three solutions—Evolent Care Partners, New Century Health and Evolent Health Services—encompass total cost of care management, specialty care management and administrative simplification. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers, is the first company to receive the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. OUR PEOPLE We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 100% score on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, making us one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees. We were also named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 and 2021 by Parity.org. OUR CULTURE Our accessible leadership team cultivates an open-door environment. We don’t like approval chains; we love ideas and people with the courage and conviction to bring novel solutions forward. We win as a team and always ask how we can do better. We respect and encourage commitments outside of work. OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS We recognize and reward our most valuable asset—our team—with competitive pay and annual performance-based bonuses. Evolent also offers comprehensive health benefits, a company-matched 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Every salaried Evolent employee receives unlimited Personal Time Off and is eligible for a month-long sabbatical after working five years with Evolent. This account is monitored closely by our company. Please message us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
