Chief Technology Officer-Fractional

Chief Technology Officer-Fractional

Precise Behavioral Inc, Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Precise Behavioral (Precise) was established to revolutionize the behavioral healthcare ecosystem for patients, providers, and health plans. Precise is a physician‑owned and led organization that enables a mix of digital, telehealth, in‑person, and community resources for improved patient outcomes.

We are seeking a hands‑on, strategic Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the continued evolution and scaling of our technology platform at a critical stage of growth. As a company with an established digital product, we are focused on expanding capabilities, scaling infrastructure, and deepening clinical impact.

The fractional CTO will oversee engineering, data, and infrastructure, with responsibility for advancing our digital behavioral health application and strengthening the systems that power clinical and medical metrics. This leader will partner closely with Product and Clinical teams to enhance performance, unlock new capabilities, and support rapid national growth.

Reports To:

Chief Executive Officer

Scale & Evolve the Platform

Lead the development and engineering teams responsible for designing, building, scaling, and optimizing Precise Behavioral’s modular behavioral health technology ecosystem, including:

• Patient‑facing digital applications that support engagement, outcomes tracking, telehealth, and ongoing behavioral health care journeys
• Clinician dashboards and workflow tools that enable measurement‑based care, operational efficiency, real‑time clinical insights, and provider performance optimization
• A scalable modular software platform that supports configurable care models, interoperability, multi‑state expansion, partner integrations, analytics, and future AI/ML capabilities

Drive architectural strategy, platform modernization, and engineering execution across the full technology stack while balancing scalability, reliability, security, compliance, and speed of innovation.

This will Include:

• Lead the next phase of growth for an existing digital behavioral health application used by patients and providers nationwide
• Assess and evolve current architecture to support increased scale and performance; utilize AI where appropriate
• New product features and care models
• Multi‑state expansion and partner integrations
• Identify and address technical debt while maintaining development velocity
• Drive improvements in system reliability, uptime, and user experience

Enhance the Digital Behavioral Health Experience

Partner with Product and Clinical leadership to expand platform capabilities, including:

• Telehealth and hybrid care delivery
• Patient engagement and retention tools
• Workflow optimization for providers
• Ensure the platform continues to meet the needs of both clinicians and patients as complexity grows
• Support integration with EHRs, third‑party platforms, and strategic partners

Advance Clinical Data & Medical Metrics

• Strengthen and scale systems that capture, analyze, and report clinical and medical metrics
• Partner with Medical Affairs to refine and expand outcomes tracking
• Provider performance metrics
• Quality and safety indicators
• Enhance support for measurement‑based care and real‑time clinical insights
• Ensure data integrity and consistency as the platform scales

Mature Data & Analytics Capabilities

• Evolve the existing data infrastructure into a more robust, scalable analytics ecosystem
• Expand capabilities in business intelligence and reporting, clinical analytics and population health insights, product and user engagement metrics
• Lay the foundation for future AI/ML‑driven insights and decision support

Strengthen Security, Privacy & Compliance

• Ensure the platform continues to meet and scale with HIPAA and healthcare regulatory requirements
• Enhance security posture as the organization grows (access controls, monitoring, incident response)
• Partner with Compliance and Legal to navigate multi‑state and digital health regulatory complexity
• Build scalable processes for managing risk without…