Director - Application Support Operations, Remote

Job Description

Primary Duties:

Strategic Transformation and Scalability

Non-Linear Scaling: Design and execute roadmap to decouple ticket volume from headcount. Implement AI, automation, and self-service tools to absorb 2x-3x increase in volume while maintaining a lean and efficient team.

Operational Architecture: Proactively identify and remove bottlenecks. Move beyond management of ticket queues to building systems and KPIs required for long-term sustainability.

Executive Governance and Stakeholder Influence

Strategic Storytelling: Able to transform complex topics into a persuasive narrative, effectively securing buy-in from senior leadership and cross-functional teams through clear verbal and written communication (memos, proposals, and executive-level slides).

Stakeholder Management and Partnership: 

Act as a strategic partner to a variety of internal stakeholders to ensure support requirements are integrated into the broader company roadmap and product roll-outs are adequately supported by the team.

Manage relationships with external data vendors to ensure consistent data delivery.

Serves as a strategic partner to our practices by translating their pain points into actionable internal requirements.

Serve as leadership escalation for customers, effectively manage service recovery in partnership with market leadership

High Performing Culture and Team Management

Foster a High Performing Culture: Cultivate radical accountability and hold everyone to a high standard, eliminating inefficiency through self-service tools, and keeping the team’s talent level high through hands-on coaching and clear performance standards.

Empower Team Innovation: Create a space for the team to think outside the box and suggest new ways to solve problems, ensuring that great ideas are tested and put into action.

High-trust Environment: Foster a collaborative and unified culture characterized by psychological safety, open communication, and mutual support.

Professional Development: Design and execute individualized career roadmaps for team members, ensuring their skills in AI, data, and leadership grow alongside Aledade.

Resource Advocacy: Champion the team’s needs for tools, training, and headcount by building data-backed business cases for investment.

Healthcare Domain Expertise and Root Cause Analysis

Healthcare Data Proficiency: Drive issue resolution through deep healthcare data proficiency (claims, scheduling, clinical, ADT, payer attribution). Use health tech expertise to accelerate resolution by mentoring the team through complex troubleshooting.

Incident Management: Direct the operational response to any incidents with our applications or data breaches that affect external systems, such as EHRs, that send data to our applications. This includes having a deep understanding of the protocols for interface disabling and the technical expertise to confirm that all requirements and necessary remediations are fully satisfied before restoring the connection. Manage the timely escalation of incidents to the appropriate stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

Eight years of proven leadership directing, overseeing, and scaling complex operations as a Support or Transformation Director for a public or private company with over 2,000 employees or $500M in revenue.

Background in mid-to-large enterprise environments with the ability to navigate formal approach cycles and standardized reporting.

Experience with application and interface support’s best practices and industry standards.

Hands on experience architecting enterprise-grade support platforms (eg. Zendesk).

Experience with customer relationship management platforms (eg. Salesforce), project tracking tools (eg. JIRA).

Experience with interface engine (eg. Nextgen Connect/Mirth, Corepoint, Rhapsody, Cloverleaf) and various connectivity methods, such as VPN, SFTP. XDS.b, XDM.

Experience debugging healthcare transactions: Scheduling (HL7), Claims (837), and Clinical (CCDA).

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities:

Functional competencies: Leadership and operational management skills, emotional intelligence, adaptability, communication skills, decision-making, strategic thinking, influence others, change management, relationship building, portfolio management skills, team building skills, strategic decision making, strategic planning, capacity planning, relationship building.

Exceptional customer service skills and a customer-centric mindset.

Master’s Degree in Computer Information System or MBA.

Healthcare industry experience supporting PM and/or EHR systems is a plus.

Experience using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, DataGrips.

Physical Requirements:

Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.