Medical Director - Physicians

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary physician leader for all physician prescribers (MDs/DOs).
• Establish expectations for clinical practice (both primary care and obesity medicine), documentation, and patient management.
• Ensure physician engagement, professional development, and retention.
• Partner to ensure physician productivity, patient access, and overall performance.
• Partner with Operations and Finance to align staffing models to demand and to monitor visit utilization, follow-up cadence, and capacity management.
• Intervene on underperformance through coaching and structured improvement plans.
• Lead peer review, case consultation, and first-level physician escalations.
• Recruit and onboard new physicians to knownwell expectations and best practices.
• Oversee up to 4 APCs in states where legally licensed.

Care Model & Workflow Design

• Identify gaps in care delivery and clinical workflows by participating in approximately 4 hours of direct patient care per week.
• Partner with Product, Ops, and Analytics to design scalable solutions.
• Inform product specifications to ensure safe and efficacious care.
• Guide clinical aspects of scheduling models and visit design.

Quality & Governance Partnership

• Partner with Clinical Quality to uphold evidence-based care standards.
• Support incident review, safety escalations, and risk mitigation.
• Reinforce documentation integrity and coding accuracy.
• Ensure regulatory and collaborative practice compliance.
• Support physician collaboration agreements and APC supervision frameworks.
• Ensure appropriate supervisory ratios and coverage models.
• Support onboarding readiness for new prescribers.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with multi-state licensure in good standing.
• Proven clinical experience, preferably in primary care, weight management, or obesity medicine.
• Strong interest in clinical education, curriculum development, health care operations, and mentorship.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across clinical and operational teams.
• Willingness to travel periodically to support market-specific needs.
• Comfort navigating virtual care platforms, with proficiency in or willingness to develop expertise in Athena.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with a high degree of organization and follow-through.
• Commitment to knownwell®’s mission of weight-inclusive, compassionate, evidence-based care.

Special Consideration

• Previous medical directorship roles.
• ABOM Certification.
• Start-up experience.

Pay & Perks

• Remote Opportunity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan with company match.
• Up to 20 days of PTO per year + company holidays.
• Up to 14 weeks of parental leave (12 for non-birthing parents).
• Annual work from home stipend for remote employees.