Behavioral Health Medical Director – Clinical Architect (Virtual Primary Care)

About the role

You will lead our expanding internal Behavioral Health service line as a key senior member of the Devoted Medical team, a virtual-first clinical provider organization dedicated to delivering comprehensive, proactive population health management.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic design, rollout, and execution of zero-to-one integrated behavioral health services and virtual SMI clinics, moving them from phase 0 to enterprise scalability within one year to radically transform value-based care delivery.

• Vanguard Psychiatric Care Delivery: Act as the primary treating psychiatrist and prescriber for our highest-acuity, medically fragile geriatric members during critical stabilization windows, and steer our national asynchronous curbside e-consult ecosystem.

• Value-Based Care Optimization: Design clinical workflows strictly optimized for Total Cost of Care (TCOC) reduction, population health KPIs (symptom remission, PHQ-9 tracking, and ED diversion), completely unfettered by traditional fee-for-service billing red tape.

• Care Team Leadership & Resource Management: Own the portfolio's operating budget, define organizational structures, and lead the recruitment, mentoring, performance auditing, and direct supervision of all MDs, APPs, and frontline staff across the service line.

• EMR & Tech Innovation Partnership: Collaborate directly with our engineering and data teams to co-develop, test, and optimize our custom, from-the-ground-up EMR (Orinoco), embedding generative AI features to directly eliminate administrative charting burdens for your clinicians.

• Safety, Compliance, & National Dissemination: Serve as the final corporate owner of behavioral health policies, procedures, and patient safety compliance, while cultivating an industry-wide network to disseminate Devoted’s clinical innovations on a national scale.

Requirements

• Credentials & Certifications: Must possess a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree and hold an active, unrestricted Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

• Clinical & Startup Depth: Minimum of 3–5 years of active clinical experience managing high-acuity SMI, severe mood disorders, schizophrenia, or complex geriatric populations, alongside a proven track record of operational leadership, budget management, or program building in a healthcare system or digital health startup.

• Integrated Care Mastery: Deep practical experience implementing, auditing, or designing Collaborative Care Models (CoCM) or integrated behavioral health registries across collaborative multi-disciplinary care settings.

• Licensing Agility & Virtual Infrastructure: High comfort level utilizing telehealth platforms, and unconditional willingness to aggressively obtain multi-state licensure as our virtual footprint expands nationally.

• The "Happy Warrior" Attribute: Demonstrated attributes of a metrics-driven, resilient servant leader who enjoys working at a fast, iterative startup pace, possesses the agility to pivot based on real-time data, and passionately "sweats the details" of patient care.

Qualifications

• Active Board Certification or fellowship training in Geriatric Psychiatry or Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry, combined with direct experience managing dually eligible (D-SNP) Medicaid/Medicare populations.

• Formal training in continuous improvement methodologies (such as a Lean Six Sigma belt) and previous experience partnering with product software engineers on custom EMR optimization or medical AI applications.

Skills

• Metrics-driven leadership

• Resilience and adaptability

• Telehealth proficiency

• Collaborative care model implementation

• Continuous improvement methodologies

• Custom EMR optimization

• Medical AI applications

Benefits

Our Total Rewards package includes:

• Employer sponsored health, dental and vision plan with low or no premium
• Generous paid time off
• $100 monthly mobile or internet stipend
• Stock options for all employees
• Bonus eligibility for all roles excluding Director and above; Commission eligibility for Sales roles
• Parental leave program
• 401K program

Pay

Salary Range: $275,000 - $380,000 / year base salary