VP of Engineering

About the role

Cancer is the number one cause of death for commercially insured Americans and the top cost driver for health plans. And, cancer patients are struggling. CancerNavigator is a white-glove, end-to-end, cancer support service for patients and their families. We work with health plans across the country to provide 1-1 support to members facing a cancer diagnosis. Our support is delivered through dedicated Oncology Certified Nurses, who help members get to fantastic experts for their care and help them through the thousands of other problems that arise across the cancer journey. Join us to serve cancer patients in their hour of need. The “VP of Engineering” Role As VP of Engineering, you’ll join CancerNavigator at a pivotal stage of growth and have the opportunity to shape what our engineering function becomes. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll initially operate as a highly hands-on technical leader—setting the technical strategy, defining the roadmap, and building alongside the team. Over time, you’ll take on leadership of our existing technical resources and build out the engineering organization needed to support our next stage of scale. This is not a role where you’ll inherit a mature engineering organization or a predefined roadmap. You’ll work closely with leaders across the business to understand how our service operates today, identify the highest-impact opportunities for technology, and determine what we should build, buy, automate, or redesign.

Responsibilities

• Partner with our CEO and functional leaders to set the technical strategy and roadmap for the business.
• Identify the highest-impact opportunities to use technology and AI to help our team serve more patients at scale.
• Design and build foundational systems, particularly in the early stages of the role.
• Lead the development of tools across patient navigation, communication, research, and healthcare data processing.
• Grow and lead our engineering function, establishing the team, infrastructure, and practices we’ll need for our next stage of growth.