Medical Director​/Veterinarian; DVM North Phoenix

Description

• Medical Director role at our largest, newest, and most fully equipped hospital
• $190,000 base + $10,000 medical director stipend
  , Pro Sal, no negative accrual, vacation doesn't count against production
• Signing bonus based on experience
• No mandatory on-call. Shift coverage is voluntary.
• 3 techs per DVM — more with experience
• Two of our highest wellness plans, free, for your own pets — plus 20% off other care and medications
• 8,600 sq ft, purpose-built two years ago; endoscopy on-site
• Join a peer group of medical directors across all three hospitals — you're not carrying medical leadership alone

We started Ark Vets because we believed veterinary medicine could be practiced differently — in hospitals where doctors are trusted, techs are developed, and clients are told the truth about their pets' care without being pressured into it. We're locally and family owned, three hospitals across Metro Phoenix, and we intend to stay that way.

We're not a chain. We're not a rollup. There's no regional VP flying in with a new script. When something's broken, you can tell the owner directly — she'll answer. When something works, it becomes part of how we practice everywhere.

That independence is the point. It's what lets us do fear-free-inspired medicine as the default, keep estimates transparent, protect our doctors from burnout, and invest in the equipment and the people who make good medicine possible.

North Phoenix is our newest hospital — purpose-built two years ago as our largest and most fully equipped location. We sit at the intersection of the 51 and 101, easily accessible from Desert Ridge, Moon Valley, Deer Valley, and Paradise Valley.

Our clients here are upscale, engaged, and expect excellent medicine — and they invest in it. That combination matters: it means the medicine you want to practice is the medicine your clients want you to practice.

The building is 8,600 square feet with two large surgery suites, a separate contagious-disease area, a special-purpose room, endoscopy on-site, digital radiography, ultrasound, Ligasure, and a Class IV therapy laser. If you've been waiting for a well-designed hospital with the room and the equipment to grow the medicine — this is it.

You'll be both a practicing DVM and the clinical leader of the hospital.

On the practice side: around 18 appointments per day on your clinical days, with 1–2 surgery days per week based on your preference. General practice mixed with dedicated urgent care.

On the leadership side: you set the standard of medicine for the hospital, mentor junior doctors and techs, contribute to protocols across all three Ark Vets locations, and partner directly with ownership on how the practice grows. The other two Ark Vets hospitals have medical directors already — you're joining a peer group, not carrying the whole medical‑leadership load alone.

Our default is low-stress, fear-free-inspired care — but we run urgent care too, and we won't pretend a scared, actively bleeding patient at 4:45 always gets the slow, cookies‑first workup. Honesty about the work is part of the culture.

No mandatory on-call. If a shift needs coverage, we ask — we don't require. Doctors choose whether to say yes.

Three things matter to us as a team, and they're the honest filter for whether you'll thrive here:

• We Do the Right Thing. We serve with integrity, exceed expectations, and intend to leave our profession better than we found it.
• We Make Magic Happen. We take care of each other. Our energy changes lives — humans and pets both.
• We Have Contagious Curiosity. We seek to grow. We value professional development. We take an active role in making the workplace better.

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