Senior Director, Strategy and Program Development

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Hiring Remotely in Home, Klouékanmè, Kouffo, BEN
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150K-160K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
Leads Evolent’s oncology strategy, competitive and market analysis, product gap assessments, and 18–24 month roadmap. Identifies and launches priority programs from concept through pilot, conducts build-buy-partner evaluations, manages early partner diligence, defines pilot success criteria, and determines go/no-go decisions. Proven programs are handed off to implementation, product, performance, and operations teams for scaled delivery.
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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:

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Senior Director, Strategy and Program Development will provide leadership over Evolent's Oncology strategy, including monitoring of the broader competitive landscape, vendor landscape for medical expense innovation, and evolution of oncology business models. This position will further identify and incubate priority programs through pilot before handoff that will further differentiate Evolent's risk management capabilities and competitive differentiation.  


Essential duties and responsibilities include:


Strategy

  • Maintain a disciplined external view of market, competitor, payer, regulatory, and oncology care-delivery trends
  • Run recurring internal gap assessments of the oncology product against market needs and current performance
  • Build and refresh the 18-24 month oncology strategy and roadmap

Program Innovation

  • Shape and launch a small number of priority new programs from concept through pilot; demonstrate proof of value
  • For each program, lead a build / buy / partner assessment in collaboration with Product
  • Lead early-stage partner conversations and diligence with Growth/BD, who own contracting and close.
  • Ensure each program’s value is categorized and aligned with the overarching archetype framework and remains cohesive with other components of the oncology product.
  • Define pilot design, success criteria, and go/no-go decision points; hand off proven programs to Implementation, Product, Performance, and Operations for scaled delivery.

The Experience You’ll Need (Required):

  • Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of healthcare management and/or healthcare consulting experience
  • Strong strategy skills
  • Comfort in shepherding new ideas from design to conception
  • Strong Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills
  • Outstanding written and oral presentation skills

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 $150,000-160,000. 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
  • 10+ years of healthcare management and/or healthcare consulting experience
  • Strong strategy skills
  • Experience shepherding new ideas from design to conception
  • Strong Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills
  • Outstanding written and oral presentation skills
  • High-speed internet exceeding 10 Mbps at home
  • Completion of a comprehensive background check
  • In-person I-9 verification

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Arlington, VA
2,581 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

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.

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