Director, Provider AI Innovation and Strategy - Remote

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Location:

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $134,600 - $230,800/year

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Strategy Company:
United Health Group Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives?

Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Director, Provider AI Innovation and Strategy leads the end-to-end delivery of AI transformation engagements and AI-enabled offerings serving health systems, hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory organizations, post-acute providers, and other care-delivery organizations. This leader serves as the primary engagement lead and senior client advisor, aligning business priorities, stakeholders, and cross-functional delivery teams to translate strategic objectives into executable AI initiatives. The role is accountable for shaping transformation roadmaps, guiding solution development and implementation, managing delivery outcomes, and identifying opportunities to expand client impact through scalable AI-enabled capabilities.

The Director will build executive relationships, shape new opportunities, support sales pursuits, and convert emerging AI capabilities into differentiated offerings. The role has a primary focus on growth, commercialization, and strategic client relationships, while maintaining active involvement in critical delivery activities to ensure solutions improve clinical, operational, financial, and patient outcomes.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

Engagement & Delivery Leadership:
Lead complex AI transformation engagements from strategy through implementation and value realization, ensuring alignment across client executives, business stakeholders, and cross-functional delivery teams

Executive Client Leadership:
Serve as a senior advisor to client executives throughout delivery, facilitating critical decisions, resolving escalations, aligning stakeholders, and guiding changes to operating models, investment priorities, adoption, governance, and value realization

Cross-Functional Delivery Leadership:
Mobilize and lead multidisciplinary teams across strategy, product, engineering, data science, operations, legal, compliance, and other functions to deliver integrated AI solutions in complex environments

Client Growth:
Build and expand relationships with health system executives, clinical leaders, operational leaders, financial leaders, and technology leaders Opportunity Development:
Identify, qualify, and shape strategic opportunities involving clinical care, patient access, care management, revenue cycle, workforce, quality, capacity, consumer experience, population health, and administrative operations Sales and Pursuit Leadership:
Lead or support proposals, executive presentations, demonstrations, workshops, pricing discussions, and complex sales pursuits Provider Thought Leadership:
Develop pioneering approaches to emerging provider-industry trends and communicate the implications of AI for care delivery, clinician workflows, patient experience, health system operations, and financial performance Executive Advisory:
Advise senior provider executives on AI strategy, investment priorities, governance, operating-model changes,…