Chief Medical Officer
The Opportunity
The Chief Medical Officer is a new role on LifeLong's Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a practitioner-leader position: the CMO will maintain an active patient panel while serving as the strategic and operational leader for LifeLong's entire clinical enterprise.
The CMO will inherit a strong clinical foundation — skilled providers, deep community roots, and a residency program already underway — and will have the mandate and the resources to take it further. The right candidate will be someone who sees leading a clinical organization not as leaving medicine, but as practicing it at a different scale.
What You Will Own
Develop and finalize a system-wide care strategy that positions LifeLong to lead the next phase of community health in the East Bay
Champion a care model grounded in access, equity, and full-spectrum primary care for underserved populations
Ensure clinical strategy drives facility, staffing, and partnership decisions — not the other way around
Build a culture of clinical excellence, peer support, and shared accountability among LifeLong's provider community
Lead the recruitment and retention of a fully staffed, mission-aligned provider team — one of the CMO's most important near-term mandates
Design and implement a medical leadership development program that supports, retains, and elevates physicians and advanced practice clinicians across all sites
Serve as the clinical leadership partner to the Head of Clinical Operations, bridging care quality and operational efficiency
Oversee access standards, patient experience, and clinical workflow design across LifeLong's 15 sites
Ensure operational decisions reflect clinical values and patient-centered priorities
Lead all medical providers and a direct reports team including the Deputy Chief Medical Officers, Regional Medical Directors and Specialty Medical Directors
Establish clear clinical governance, accountability, and performance structures across the medical provider team
Partner with HR and Operations on workforce strategy, compensation, and the systems needed to attract and retain exceptional clinicians
Represent LifeLong's clinical mission in external partnerships, including with health systems, payers, academic partners, and community organizations