Medical Director - Addiction Medicine (Telehealth)
About Boulder
Boulder Care is an award-winning digital clinic for addiction medicine, recognized for both innovation and high quality of patient care. Founded in 2017 by CEO Stephanie Strong, our mission is to improve the lives of people with substance use disorders through compassionate, evidence-based care.
We provide Boulder patients with a fully virtual, multidisciplinary care team—including medical providers and peer recovery specialists—who deliver personalized treatment, including medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and ongoing support. Our approach is grounded in clinical excellence, patient-centered care, and a commitment to reducing barriers to recovery. Boulder partners with leading health plans, employers, and community organizations to ensure that our services are accessible and covered for the people who need them most.
Named by Fortune as one of the Best Workplaces in Healthcare, we foster a culture of kindness, respect, and meaningful work that delivers outstanding patient outcomes and moves the addiction medicine industry forward.
About this role
The Medical Director serves as a physician leader within Boulder Care’s Medical Affairs organization, helping ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, and scalable substance use disorder treatment across a growing multi-state clinical platform.
This role combines deep addiction medicine expertise with systems thinking, quality leadership, and cross-functional partnership. The Medical Director will help shape Boulder’s clinical standards, quality strategy, service line evolution, and clinical governance structures while partnering closely with Clinical Services, Product, Operations, and executive leadership.
The ideal candidate is an experienced physician leader who has helped scale clinical programs, developed clinical leaders, and translated evidence-based care into operationally sustainable systems.
The Medical Director reports to the SVP & Head of Medical Affairs and works closely with the VP of Clinical Care and Clinical Services leadership.
What you’ll do
Translate quality findings, operational priorities, and emerging evidence into scalable clinical workflows and care delivery standards.
Identify gaps in clinical processes, policies, and infrastructure and partner across teams to implement solutions.
Support implementation of new clinical initiatives and ensure clinical best practices are operationally viable and consistently applied.
Drive adoption of new clinical workflows, protocols, and care models across a distributed clinical workforce.
Partner with Medical Affairs and Clinical Services leadership to evaluate and support expansion into new service lines and care models.
Contribute clinical expertise to Boulder’s long-term vision of comprehensive substance use disorder care.
Serve as a clinical liaison to Product, Operations, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
Provide clinical input on care delivery technology, clinical decision support tools, AI-enabled workflows, and platform enhancements.
What you bring
Board Certification in Addiction Medicine with active medical license in good standing.
Minimum 5 years of clinical experience caring for patients with substance use disorders.
Demonstrated experience leading clinicians, clinical programs, or multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
Experience building or scaling clinical programs, quality initiatives, care delivery models, or healthcare teams in a growing organization.
Experience developing and implementing clinical protocols, workflows, and evidence-based standards across multiple clinicians or sites.
Demonstrated success leading change and driving adoption of new clinical practices or operational processes.
Experience using data and quality metrics to identify opportunities and improve clinical performance.
Exceptional communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
Ability to influence across functions and lead through partnership in complex organizations.
Preferred Education & Experience
Experience in telehealth, digital health, or technology-enabled care delivery.
Experience serving Medicaid and other publicly insured populations.
Experience partnering closely with Product, Operations, Analytics, or Engineering teams.
Familiarity with AI-enabled clinical workflows, clinical decision support tools, or healthcare technology innovation.
Experience developing clinical leaders and supporting leadership growth within healthcare organizations.
Multi-state clinical leadership experience.