Lead execution of growth-stage cross-functional transformation programs: maintain integrated program plans, align product/billing/communications with marketing, run governance cadences, drive readiness items, surface and escalate bottlenecks, and coordinate across Operations, Product, Clinical, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, Legal, and Client Success.
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At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.
Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vida's team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health.
By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. It's trusted by Fortune 100 companies, major national payers and large providers to enable their employees to live their healthiest lives.
Vida Health is seeking a high-energy, systems-thinking Growth Operations Program Manager to join our team. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of clinical/product programs and growth initiatives, ensuring our operational infrastructure keeps pace with our commercial expansion and strategic evolution.
This is an execution-focused role. The strategic decisions have largely been made or will be facilitated by senior leadership team members on an ongoing basis; your mission is to ensure they are executed flawlessly. You will own the end-to-end operational coordination of multiple interconnected transformation initiatives while simultaneously building the frameworks necessary to sustain our growth.
Responsibilities:
- Own and maintain the integrated program plan across multiple major initiatives, tracking work-streams, milestones, owners, dependencies, and status tracking across a dozen-plus functional teams.
- Connect strategic growth initiatives with operational reality, ensuring downstream product, billing, and communication changes align with marketing and user-acquisition goals.
- Drive alignment and sequence workflows across Operations, Product, Clinical, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, Legal, and Client Success teams.
- Stand up and maintain governance structures, including steering committee cadences, working group charters, escalation paths, and decision logs. Run weekly rollout operations meetings.
- Drive key readiness items to completion, including clinical programs/protocols, client billing/invoicing, member communications, outcomes measurement, and service model cost structures.
- Identify, surface, and escalate cross-functional bottlenecks early. Maintain a running "blocked list" for executive review and know when to leverage executive sponsorship to unblock items.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with a concentration in Business or Communications.
- 5+ years of program/project management, operations, or implementation experience. Must have a proven track record in a growth-stage startup environment (Series B–D) and at least one engagement involving a complex, multi-workstream organizational transformation.
- Direct experience in healthcare, health tech, or digital health is required. You must understand regulatory, clinical, and payer dynamics (including HIPAA compliance) well enough to ask the right questions.
- Hands-on experience with product rollouts or product-led transformations—you know what it takes to move from "product is building it" to "the organization is operating it."
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration suites (e.g., Asana, Jira, Smartsheet, Google Workspace). Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Gemini, Claude) to accelerate operational workflows is a plus.
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills. Ability to distill complex, multi-thread operational statuses into crisp executive updates. You maintain a calm, collected presence and earn trust through reliability, not formal authority per se.
Preferred:
- Experience in a dedicated product operations or growth operations role at a scaling company.
- Exposure to structured change management frameworks (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR).
- Familiarity with GLP-1 and chronic condition management care delivery models.
Vida is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve. Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Vida in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position will be deemed the sole property of Vida. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Vida as a result of the unsolicited referral.
**Vida is authorized to do business in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Vida is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more about where Vida is registered.
Please note: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. as Vida is unable to sponsor work visas for any position.
All Vida Employees must reside in/be able to work from the U.S.- international work is prohibited. Job postings at Vida are evergreen and will remain open through end of year, until filled.
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