VP, Clinical Care Delivery

Job Description

Job Description

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression. We design and operate high-acuity, in-person clinics across the United States.

Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems.

Leading health systems partner with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health . Our investors include health systems such as Cedars-Sinai and CommonSpirit Health, organizations that evaluated our model clinically and chose to back it.

Why We Are Different

Many clinicians who join Amae have worked in PHPs, IOPs, inpatient psychiatry, or community mental health. They understand the limitations of the traditional system. Amae was built to change that—for patients and for clinicians.

• Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side-by-side and share responsibility for the same patients.
• Practice at the top of your license. Manageable caseloads, meaningful clinical depth, and purpose-built tools designed for this population.
• Continuous learning. Through our partnership with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence-based SMI care.
• Advancing the field. Our clinicians contribute to new outcomes frameworks and research shaping the future of severe mental illness care.
• A model built for sustainability. Team-based care, thoughtful caseloads, and strong infrastructure make this work meaningful—and sustainable over time.

The Role

We're hiring a Vice President of Clinical Excellence to operationalize and scale Amae's clinical model across our growing network of clinics. This is a senior execution role focused on translating clinical standards into consistent, high-quality care delivery. You will partner closely with Clinical, Operations, Product, and Data leadership to ensure our model is implemented with fidelity across every site.

Your mandate is simple but critical: Make great care repeatable.

What You'll Do

Drive Model Adoption & Clinical Fidelity

• Ensure consistent delivery of Amae's care model across therapy and integrated care teams
• Translate evidence-based approaches (CBT, DBT, trauma-informed care) into structured, repeatable workflows
• Identify gaps between design and real-world execution — and close them

Build Clinical Quality Systems

• Implement systems for supervision, case review, and quality monitoring
• Establish feedback loops to detect and correct clinical drift early
• Partner with site leadership to reinforce accountability and performance

Operationalize Measurement-Based Care

• Embed measurement-based care into daily clinical workflows
• Ensure clinicians are using tools consistently and meaningfully
• Track and improve key clinical outcomes across sites

Partner on Clinical Technology Adoption

• Drive adoption of EHR workflows, measurement tools, and clinical dashboards
• Partner with Product and Data to improve usability and clinical impact
• Ensure technology enhances — not burdens — care delivery

Scale What Works

• Build playbooks, training systems, and onboarding approaches that scale across markets
• Support new clinic launches with strong clinical infrastructure from day one
• Maintain quality while enabling growth

What You'll Have

• Licensed therapist (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMFT, or equivalent strongly preferred)
• 10–15+ years in behavioral health, including serious mental illness
• 5+ years in clinical leadership roles
• Experience scaling clinical programs across multiple sites or programs

What Sets You Apart

• You've implemented clinical models in real-world settings — not just designed them
• You know how to drive consistency across clinicians with different styles and training
• You're comfortable using data to drive clinical decisions and performance
• You can navigate resistance and bring clinicians along without lowering standards

Bonus (Not Required)

• Experience with measurement-based care systems
• Exposure to interventional psychiatry (TMS, ketamine/esketamine)
• Exposure to metabolic psychiatry
• Experience in a high-growth or venture / investor backed environment
• Background in outcomes research or clinical program design

What We're Building

As a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.

• A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
• A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
• A partnership model with the country's leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

Compensation & Benefits

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $235,000 per year and will be adjusted to market cost. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. We'll share specifics during the interview process.

If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we'd like to talk.

What We Value

We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It's how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.

We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.

We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.

Your job isn't done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don't hide behind titles or org charts.

We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don't do blame.

We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.