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:
Vice President, Strategic Accounts
Position Summary
The Vice President, Strategic Accounts is responsible for leading Evolent’s strategic client relationships, driving retention and growth, and ensuring measurable value for clients and Evolent.
This leader serves as a trusted advisor to senior client executives and partners across clinical, operational, product, technology, finance, and commercial teams to execute account strategies, expand relationships, and deliver strong client and business outcomes.
What You Will Be Doing
Strategic Account Leadership
- Lead Evolent’s strategically important client relationship(s)
- Develop and execute multi-year account strategies aligned with client priorities and Evolent’s business objectives
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and senior client leaders
- Serve as the executive escalation point for significant client opportunities, risks, and performance issues
Retention & Growth
- Drive client retention, renewals, contract extensions, and expansion opportunities
- Identify opportunities to broaden Evolent’s solutions within existing relationships
- Lead strategic commercial discussions in partnership with Growth, Finance, Legal, Product, and other stakeholders
- Maintain visibility into account health, competitive risks, and growth opportunities
Client Value & Execution
- Ensure Evolent delivers measurable clinical, operational, and financial value and clearly communicate this value to clients
- Partner with internal leaders to address performance gaps and advance client priorities
- Mobilize cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues and execute strategic initiatives
- Bring the voice of the customer into Evolent’s product, operating, and strategic priorities
Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing Strategic Accounts team
- Establish clear expectations for executive relationship management, commercial discipline, and client accountability
- Build organizational capability and succession across the Strategic Accounts function
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and client excellence
The Experience We Prefer
- Bachelor’s degree in business, healthcare administration, finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, managed care, healthcare services, or a related field
- Significant experience leading complex strategic relationships with health plans or other healthcare organizations
- Demonstrated success driving client retention, renewals, expansion, and growth
- Strong understanding of payer economics, healthcare operations, and value-based care
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing account economics
- Proven ability to influence and execute across highly matrixed organizations
- Strong financial and commercial acumen
- Demonstrated success leading and developing senior client-facing teams
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving 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 $190,000-200,000. 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, healthcare administration, finance, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, managed care, healthcare services, or a related field
- Significant experience leading complex strategic relationships with health plans or other healthcare organizations
- Demonstrated success driving client retention, renewals, expansion, and growth
- Strong understanding of payer economics, healthcare operations, and value-based care
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing account economics
- Proven ability to influence and execute across highly matrixed organizations
- Strong financial and commercial acumen
- Demonstrated success leading and developing senior client-facing teams
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
- Advanced degree
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.
Evolent Health Insights
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.
