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Director, Medical Operations
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$204K - $255K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Medical Operations
Natera
• Serve as the physician-facing point of medical contact for ordering providers, applying clinical judgment to resolve questions and concerns that require a physician's perspective. • Provide medical leadership to the internal teams that support ordering physicians, translating clinical context into operational decisions. • Lead the development and optimization of physician onboarding and ordering workflows to ensure a seamless ordering experience for physicians. • Identify and address clinical and operational barriers that impact physician adoption, utilization, and retention. • Partner with Medical Affairs, Laboratory, and commercial cross-functional teams to improve end-to-end clinical and operational processes. • Provide medical oversight and guidance for clinical experience initiatives and operational improvement projects. • Analyze physician ordering patterns, operational metrics, and physician feedback to identify opportunities for process improvement. • Serve as a senior clinical and operational resource to ordering physicians for complex clinical questions and escalations. • Translate physician insights and operational challenges into actionable recommendations for Medical Affairs and business leadership. • Drive initiatives to improve specimen quality, turnaround times, ordering efficiency, and the overall quality of the physician ordering experience. • Evaluate and address challenges that contribute to provider attrition, including clinical friction, workflow inefficiencies, and ordering obstacles.
Job Requirements
- MD degree required, with clinical training sufficient to engage ordering physicians as a credible peer; completion of residency or additional post-graduate clinical training preferred but not required.
- Strong understanding of physician workflows and the clinical decision-making and realities of practice for ordering providers.
- Credibility to engage practicing physicians peer to peer, physician to physician.
- Experience in healthcare operations, payer organizations, healthcare consulting, hospital administration, or process improvement functions preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to improve healthcare delivery, operational efficiency, or physician experience.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to analyze complex operational challenges and develop scalable solutions.
- Experience working across medical, operational, and commercial teams is highly desirable.
- This role is best suited for a physician who understands the ordering provider's perspective firsthand but has built a career focused on healthcare operations, process improvement, consulting, or system optimization rather than maintaining an active clinical practice.
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits
- Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
- Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits.
- Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more.
- We also offer a generous employee referral program!
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