Director, Strategic Operations & Enterprise Transformation (Remote)

Why You Want To Work On This Team

This team is responsible for tackling Availity’s most complex, ambiguous, and high-impact challenges—enterprise-wide. This team is designed to have the influence and credibility to get things done. There is real opportunity to shape how strategic operations and transformation work is done.

To Be Qualified For This Position

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 8–10 years of experience in strategic operations, enterprise initiatives, consulting, or program leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong planning, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Experience in technology-enabled, product-driven, or scaling organizations.
• Background supporting enterprise-level initiatives, transformation programs, or portfolio execution.
• Strong partnership experience with Product, Engineering, Finance, or Commercial teams.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

You Will Set Yourself Apart With

• Experienced in healthcare consulting with long-term engagement experience.
• Proven track record in managing and leading cross-functional, enterprise-level transformation.

You Will Be Strategic Initiative Execution

• Executing and supporting delivery of defined enterprise priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Translating strategic direction into detailed execution plans, milestones, and success metrics.
• Coeordinating dependencies and sequencing across Product, Technology, Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams.
• Program & Portfolio Leadership:
• Leading cross-functional programs such as enterprise change initiatives, product launch readiness, pricing or intake governance, and other priority efforts.
• Keeping initiatives on track through active management of timelines, scope, risks, and dependencies.
• Driving accountability through clear ownership, regular check-ins, and structured updates.

Execution Governance & Rigor

• Running initiative-level or portfolio-level governance forums, status reviews, and working sessions.
• Implementing consistent intake, tracking, and escalation practices for assigned initiatives.
• Identifying execution risks, delivery bottlenecks, and resource constraints; surface tradeoffs and recommendations to leadership.
• Developing and maintaining execution metrics, dashboards, and status reporting.
• Providing concise, executive-ready summaries highlighting progress, risks, and required decisions.
• Analyzing trends to inform prioritization, sequencing, and corrective actions.

Change Enablement & Stakeholder Partnership

• Partnering closely with functional leaders and teams to ensure initiatives are well-understood and adoptable.
• Serving as a trusted execution partner for senior leaders driving cross-functional work.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Leading and developing a small team or program pod, as applicable.
• Setting clear priorities, expectations, and success measures for direct reports.
• Contributing to shared tools, templates, and playbooks that improve execution consistency.

Availity Culture And Benefits

• Absolutely no cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/scam-warning boilerplate.
• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work!” Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays.
• Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• We offer wellness benefits, including gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• We offer education reimbursement!
• We offer Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• We partner with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.