Aurrera Health is dedicated to health policy, focusing on improving health coverage and advancing high-quality health care through strategic consulting.
Director
Location
United States
Posted
38 days ago
Salary
$135K - $155K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Director
Aurrera Health Group
Who We Are Aurrera Health Group is a mission-driven national health policy, strategy, and operations consulting firm with deep expertise designing and administering public programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, behavioral health, trauma-informed care, and other safety net programs. Much of our firm’s work is in California, but our clients span state and federal Medicaid agencies, county/local health services departments, health care foundations, consumer advocacy organizations, hospitals, health systems, and trade associations. Aurrera Health Group is a woman-owned firm guided by our commitment to our mission – advancing access to affordable, comprehensive, equitable, high-quality health coverage and care – and our values. We select our clients, projects, and staff in keeping with that mission. We pride ourselves on our relationship-driven approach to customer service, our ability to adapt to changing landscapes, and our innovative spirit. We value and reward the quality of work we do for clients and support a range of efforts to ensure that employees can enjoy a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to the growth and professional development of all our staff. What We Do Aurrera Health is a mission-driven consulting firm specializing in Medicaid and health and human services policy solutions that improve coverage and quality of care. Our focus areas include: - Medicaid Policy, Analysis, & Operations: We shape policy reforms at local, state, and federal levels, guiding clients through complex regulations and program requirements, Medicaid expansions, 1115 waivers, and value-based care strategies that serve low-income and vulnerable communities. - Stakeholder Engagement: Our team facilitates coalition-building, outreach, and public forums, ensuring that diverse voices shape health system improvements. - Program Implementation & Assessment: We help launch and refine programs aimed at expanding access, reducing costs, and improving outcomes. - Strategic Advisory Services: Through data-driven insights, we advise clients on payment reforms, managed care initiatives, and innovative care models. - Technical Assistance: We provide hands-on guidance and tools to help clients overcome regulatory, policy, or operational challenges—ensuring smooth adoption of new initiatives. What You’ll Do - Oversee complex client projects in policy development and stakeholder outreach. - Manage consulting staff, delegate tasks, and ensure top-quality deliverables. - Grow business opportunities through networking, conferences, and strategic proposals. - Produce deliverables for project work Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s + 10 years, or Master’s + 8 years, or JD + 7 years of relevant health policy experience, with a strong emphasis on consulting, government or advisory roles. - Demonstrated expertise is in behavioral health policy. - Proven experience in crisis systems, such as 988 suicide and crisis lifeline implementation (preferred). - Proven experience supporting federal grant program design, oversight, and implementation. - Proven success managing teams and leading complex policy projects with multiple stakeholders. - Strong organizational, project management, and customer service skills. - Experience serving as a primary or senior point of contact for clients, responsible for translating complex policy into actionable strategies and deliverables. - Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and complex workstreams with competing priorities. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex policy issues for diverse audiences. - Demonstrated experience supporting or leading business development efforts, including identifyingopportunities, contributing to proposals, and expanding existing client engagements. - Ability to operate flexibly across teams, clients, and subject areas, stepping into new or evolving workstreams with limited direction and leading them to successful outcomes. Demonstrates a proactive, solutions-oriented approach and a commitment to delivering high-quality work in dynamic, fast-paced environments. - Ability to work hours aligned with Pacific or Mountain time zone business hours. - Experience working in consulting, government, or advisory environments. Preferred Qualifications - Proven success managing and developing teams, including coaching staff, delegating work effectively, and ensuring high performance across multiple projects. - Demonstrated expertise in licensing and certification. - Demonstrated expertise in Medicaid policy, financing, and delivery systems, including interaction with federal funding mechanisms and requirements. - Experience leading projects and teams at a fast-paced consulting firm. - Experience managing or advising on large federal grants. - Experience working with cross-sector stakeholders (state agencies, providers, advocates, federalpartners). Note: Our consulting work relies on deep health-policy expertise and client-facing consulting experience. Strong candidates for this role will have Medicaid or state/federal policy experience from working in government, as a consultant, or with an association. Backgrounds generally not aligned to this role include: - Clinical or case-management roles seeking a first move into policy consulting - Behavioral-health/therapy positions without policy analysis or financing work - Health-industry product marketing, sales, or account-management (e.g., pharmaceutical, medical-device, or provider-network sales) - Hospital or health-system operations focused solely on internal service delivery (e.g., revenue-cycle, clinical operations) - Vendor implementation/project roles without policy, business development, or strategic advisory responsibilities. Location Aurrera Health Group is a fully remote organization and candidates from all areas of the country are encouraged to apply. Occasional travel to company events, meetings, and client sites may be required, but the primary workstation for this position will be remote. As a national firm, the Aurrera Health Group team works across four time zones. Compensation and Benefits Aurrera Health Group offers competitive salaries based on industry standards and experience, skills, and responsibility. We maintain equitable pay bands for employees based on these factors. The starting pay range for this position is $135,000 to $155,000 per year, with an opportunity for an end-of-year bonus. Additionally, Aurrera Health Group offers a comprehensive benefit package, including: - Generous leave program, including company holidays, vacation, sick, parental, and volunteer leave. - Employer-matching 401(k) retirement plan. - Health, vision, dental insurance with generous employer premium contributions, and Flexible Spending Account plans. - Short and long-term disability insurance plans. - Home office and cell phone stipends, charitable donation matching, and other benefits Why Join Us? - Dedicated to Health Policy: Our core mission is improving health coverage and care quality. - Meaningful Work: Create real, sustainable change in health care policy. - Supportive Culture: Collaborate with inclusive professionals who share a passion for social impact Ready to Apply? - Please attach both of the following: Resume (required) Cover Letter (required) Explain why you are interested in Aurrera Health Group. Describe how your experience aligns with—or is transferable to—this role. Important: Applications lacking both a complete resume as described above and a tailored cover letter will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed.
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This individual will serve as a primary strategic liaison between Mass General Brigham AI and Mass General Brigham Innovation, helping to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and advance high-potential AI-enabled technologies, programs, and partnerships from early concept through validation, deployment, and commercialization. Working closely with faculty, clinicians, researchers, operational leaders, industry collaborators, and institutional stakeholders, the Director will help build and manage a robust innovation pipeline for AI across the system. The role will support the development of commercialization pathways for internally generated innovations and help align translational activities with institutional priorities in clinical care, operations, research, and growth. General Overview Mass General Brigham is committed to advancing clinically meaningful AI and digital innovation through close collaboration across research, care delivery, operations, and industry. The Director, AI Innovation and Partnerships will help accelerate this work by building strong interfaces between MGB Center for AI Research and MGB Innovation, ensuring that promising AI opportunities are assessed rigorously, advanced thoughtfully, and positioned for meaningful institutional and market impact. Principal Duties and Responsibilities • Lead the Center’s innovation, translation, and partnership strategy for AI-enabled technologies, programs, and initiatives. • Serve as a primary strategic and operational liaison between MGB Center for AI and MGB Innovation to strengthen alignment across innovation sourcing, diligence, commercialization planning, and external engagement. • Identify, evaluate, and advance promising AI opportunities from concept through pilot, validation, deployment, commercialization, and broader institutional adoption. • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including investigators, clinicians, operational leaders, hospital leadership, industry collaborators, investors, and strategic partners. • Partner closely with Mass General Brigham Innovation and other relevant institutional offices to develop and execute commercialization pathways for Center-originated innovations, including licensing, venture creation, sponsored partnerships, co-development structures, and other translational mechanisms. • Help create and oversee processes for innovation intake, prioritization, feasibility assessment, and decision-making across AI translational initiatives. • Support market and strategic assessment of emerging AI opportunities, including clinical relevance, operational fit, technical feasibility, business potential, and institutional alignment. • Facilitate coordination with Mass General Brigham Innovation on invention disclosure, market evaluation, partnering strategy, transaction support, intellectual property positioning, and downstream translation planning. • Support the development of a strong innovation pipeline by working with faculty, trainees, and staff to identify promising technologies and translational opportunities across the Mass General Brigham ecosystem. • Represent MGB Center for AI Research in discussions involving innovation strategy, external partnerships, translational growth opportunities, and commercialization planning. • Collaborate with Center leadership on long-range strategy, program development, external visibility, and the expansion of AI translational capabilities across the enterprise. • Help structure and manage strategic relationships with external companies, including early-stage ventures, established industry partners, funders, and other innovation ecosystem participants. • Work with clinical, technical, operational, and administrative stakeholders to align innovation efforts with real-world implementation pathways and enterprise priorities. • Contribute to the design of internal programs, governance mechanisms, and operating models that improve the efficiency, rigor, and scalability of AI innovation and translation efforts. • Monitor the progress of innovation and partnership initiatives, identify barriers to advancement, and help drive timely execution and informed decision-making. • Contribute to a culture of excellence, rigor, speed, collaboration, and execution across MGB AI and its interface with MGB Innovation. Supervisory and Leadership Responsibilities • May supervise or help coordinate the work of project managers, analysts, program staff, or other personnel supporting innovation and partnership activities. • May lead cross-functional teams and working groups organized around strategic innovation priorities, partnership opportunities, or translational initiatives. • Will be expected to provide leadership through influence, coordination, prioritization, and execution in a matrixed environment. Qualifications Education - Bachelor’s degree required. - Advanced degree strongly preferred, including MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, MS, JD, or related graduate training relevant to healthcare, life sciences, engineering, business, or innovation management. Experience - 8 - 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare innovation, digital health, AI/ML translation, business development, commercialization, venture strategy, product strategy, academic medicine, or a related field required. - 8 - 10+ years of experience in academic medical centers, integrated delivery systems, digital health organizations, venture-backed companies, technology transfer environments, or healthcare innovation groups strongly preferred. - Demonstrated experience working across multidisciplinary environments involving clinicians, researchers, technical teams, and administrative or business stakeholders. - Experience evaluating and advancing innovation opportunities from early concept through validation, strategic partnership, implementation, or commercialization. - Experience engaging with external partners, including industry collaborators, investors, startups, health systems, or strategic counterparties. Preferred Qualifications - Advanced experience in AI-enabled healthcare technologies, digital product strategy, or clinical AI deployment. - Experience interfacing with innovation, technology transfer, or business development functions in a large academic or healthcare institution. - Experience supporting or leading commercialization strategy for internally developed healthcare technologies. - Familiarity with the regulatory, operational, and implementation challenges associated with AI tools in healthcare settings. - Experience with partnership development involving life sciences, healthcare technology, software, data, or platform companies. - Demonstrated success in building durable relationships across research, clinical, and business constituencies. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Strong understanding of the AI and digital health innovation lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, translational development, implementation considerations, and commercialization pathways. - Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex opportunities across scientific, operational, clinical, and market dimensions. - Excellent interpersonal and relationship-management skills, including the ability to influence across highly matrixed environments. - Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information clearly for senior institutional leaders and external stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving ambiguity, multiple stakeholders, and competing priorities. - Familiarity with healthcare innovation structures such as licensing, venture creation, sponsored partnerships, co-development arrangements, and related translational models. - Working knowledge of issues relevant to healthcare AI translation, including implementation, adoption, governance, validation, and commercialization considerations. - Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple strategic workstreams simultaneously. - High degree of professionalism, judgment, discretion, and attention to detail. Additional Job Details (if applicable) Remote Type Remote Work Location 399 Revolution Drive Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Employee Type Regular Work Shift Day (United States of America) Pay Range $161,657.60 - $235,154.40/Annual Grade 10 At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package. EEO Statement: 0100 Mass General Brigham Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. 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The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused, half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance, make hiring decisions, identify development needs, mobilize employees across our system, and establish a strong talent pipeline.


