Clinical Sr. Director, Acute, Ambulatory, and Interventional Services

1.0 FTE Full time Day - 08 Hour R2659579 Hybrid  TDS Acute Care and Perioperative Systems Technology & Digital Solutions PALO ALTO, 1830 Embarcadero, California

Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

"The Clinical Applications Sr. Director for Acutem, Ambulatory, and Interventional Services will:

• Set direction across a large and an interconnected set of care areas in Clinical Applications, where a patient's journey moves fluidly between acute, interventional, and ambulatory settings, and a change or gap in one area ripples into the others. Treat these three domains as one connected system of care, keeping roadmaps and priorities in sync.
• Own vendor strategy across the broad vendor set in Clinical Applications, leading negotiation and total cost of ownership strategy at a multi-domain scale.

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

The Senior Director – IT Clinical Applications is accountable for the strategic direction and modernization of technology across multiple application domains or an enterprise-wide function within Clinical Applications. This role leads Directors, Managers, and Senior Managers across a broader portfolio, driving enterprise-level long-range planning, technical debt reduction, and platform modernization initiatives that span domains rather than sit within any single one.

The Senior Director is a leading voice on the responsible adoption of AI within Clinical Applications, shaping direction for AI use across the portfolio as the organization's enterprise AI governance model continues to take shape, and ensuring domain-level AI initiatives ladder up to a coherent, enterprise-wide strategy rather than developing in isolation. This position reports to an Executive Director or Vice President, depending on area, and serves as a key advisor and executive-facing representative on the modernization, risk, and strategic direction of the broader application portfolio.

Stanford Health Care

• Strategic Leadership & Modernization
• Co-develop with other directors the enterprise-level long-range roadmap across multiple domains, sequencing technical debt reduction and platform modernization investments against clinical and operational priorities.
• Collaborate to set the enterprise approach for evaluating and prioritizing legacy remediation and modernization, ensuring consistency across Directors and domains.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of platform, vendor, and market capabilities that could materially change the portfolio's modernization roadmap.
• Advise executive IT and Operations leadership on portfolio-wide modernization tradeoffs and investment priorities.
• AI Leadership
• Serve as a leading voice on AI adoption within Clinical Applications, shaping direction across the portfolio as enterprise AI governance structures continue to mature.
• Ensure AI initiatives across domains ladder up to a coherent enterprise strategy rather than developing independently, partnering with Directors to align domain-level pilots to that strategy.
• Represent Clinical Applications in cross-functional discussions shaping the organization's emerging AI governance approach.
• Evaluate enterprise-scale AI opportunities and partner with Directors to translate them into domain-level execution.
• People Leadership
• Lead, coach, and develop Directors, Managers, and/or Senior Managers across the portfolio.
• Hire, evaluate the performance of, and implement corrective action — up to and including termination — for assigned leaders.
• Own succession planning across the broader portfolio, growing manager capabilities and developing future enterprise leaders.
• Planning & Resourcing
• Own budget across a broad portfolio of applications and services, including the investment case for modernization and…