Medical Director - Addiction Medicine; Telehealth

About Boulder Boulder Care is an award-winning digital clinic for addiction medicine, recognized for both innovation and high quality of patient care. Founded in 2017 by CEO Stephanie Strong, our mission is to improve the lives of people with substance use disorders through compassionate, evidence-based care.

We provide Boulder patients with a fully virtual, multidisciplinary care team—including medical providers and peer recovery specialists—who deliver personalized treatment, including medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and ongoing support. Our approach is grounded in clinical excellence, patient-centered care, and a commitment to reducing barriers to recovery. Boulder partners with leading health plans, employers, and community organizations to ensure that our services are accessible and covered for the people who need them most.

Named by Fortune as one of the Best Workplaces in Healthcare, we foster a culture of kindness, respect, and meaningful work that delivers outstanding patient outcomes and moves the addiction medicine industry forward.

The Medical Director serves as a physician leader within Boulder Care’s Medical Affairs organization, helping ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, and scalable substance use disorder treatment across a growing multi-state clinical platform.

This role combines deep addiction medicine expertise with systems thinking, quality leadership, and cross-functional partnership. The Medical Director will help shape Boulder’s clinical standards, quality strategy, service line evolution, and clinical governance structures while partnering closely with Clinical Services, Product, Operations, and executive leadership.

The ideal candidate is an experienced physician leader who has helped scale clinical programs, developed clinical leaders, and translated evidence-based care into operationally sustainable systems.

The Medical Director reports to the SVP & Head of Medical Affairs and works closely with the VP of Clinical Care and Clinical Services leadership.

Within the first 12–18 months, the Medical Director will help strengthen Boulder’s clinical quality systems, advance clinical governance and protocol development, support leadership development across the clinical organization, contribute to service line expansion, and help build the infrastructure necessary to support Boulder’s continued growth as a national leader in substance use disorder care.

• Serve as a senior clinical leader and addiction medicine subject matter expert across the organization.
• Partner with Clinical Services leadership to strengthen clinical quality, consistency, and patient safety across Boulder’s care delivery model.
• Support quality assurance activities, chart review processes, and clinical audits to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure Boulder’s clinical standards remain aligned with current evidence, regulatory requirements, and payer expectations.
• Help establish and reinforce standards of clinical excellence, professional growth, and evidence-based practice.

• Translate quality findings, operational priorities, and emerging evidence into scalable clinical workflows and care delivery standards.
• Identify gaps in clinical processes, policies, and infrastructure and partner across teams to implement solutions.
• Support implementation of new clinical initiatives and ensure clinical best practices are operationally viable and consistently applied.
• Partner with Medical Affairs and Clinical Services leadership to evaluate and support expansion into new service lines and care models.
• Assess clinical readiness, staffing considerations, protocol requirements, and quality implications for new programs.
• Ensu…