Director of Strategic Implementation Operations

Spring Fertility•San Francisco, CA

7h•$150,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Spring Fertility is seeking a Director of Strategic Implementation Operations to translate company growth priorities into focused plans, patient-centered operating models, measurable initiatives, and scalable execution across markets. The role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and partners closely with executive leaders in Clinical, Marketing, and Technology. It connects marketing strategy, business operations, clinical operations and patient interface, patient experience, finance, technology, and local market teams. This high-impact role is for a structured, analytical operator who can move from strategy to execution. The Director diagnoses business and patient-journey opportunities, builds business cases, designs processes, recommends technology improvements to patient experience and workflow efficiency, and ensures initiatives are prioritized, implemented, tested, and measured for business impact. The role owns key marketing, patient funnel, operational, and systems performance metrics and develops reporting that connects marketing activity, patient journey performance, operational constraints, resource allocation, and growth. It partners with Finance on ROI and market economics; serves as a liaison among business, clinical, finance, and technology stakeholders; owns current- and future-state operating processes; and leads business readiness, stakeholder alignment, user-acceptance testing with operational users, and change management for approved initiatives. Technology retains ownership of system and integration testing, technical training, release readiness, go-live, and post-launch stabilization. This is a full-time, exempt position that is hybrid/remote in one of Spring Fertility’s regions (CA, NY, or OR), with approximately 20% expected travel. The starting salary range is $150,000–$190,000 annually.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
2–5+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, growth operations, management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, healthcare operations, or a similarly analytical role.
Ability to structure ambiguous problems, analyze data, build recommendations, and align senior stakeholders.
Experience translating strategy into operating plans, cross-functional processes, KPIs, and scalable execution models.
Strong analytical and financial acumen, including comfort using funnel, volume, operational, and financial data to inform tradeoffs and decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create executive-ready presentations, business cases, dashboards, and decision memos.
Strong systems and process fluency, with experience using dashboards, CRM or patient funnel reporting, project management tools, and workflow processes to drive visibility, accountability, and execution.
Experience managing, coaching, or providing functional leadership to direct reports or cross-functional execution partners.
Excellent project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple clinics or markets simultaneously and navigate ambiguity.
Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with credibility working effectively with clinical and provider audiences.

Nice To Haves

Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity portfolio operations, corporate strategy, business operations, or strategic finance.
Experience in healthcare, fertility, women’s health, consumer healthcare, multi-site services, or other operationally complex businesses.
Experience supporting multi-location, multi-market, or practice-based businesses where strategy must be translated into localized execution.

Responsibilities

Translate enterprise growth priorities into operational strategies and measurable initiatives across markets.
Continuously improve the end-to-end patient journey from first inquiry through treatment onboarding by identifying friction points, handoffs, communication gaps, and opportunities to make the experience clearer, warmer, and easier.
Analyze growth opportunities and funnel or market performance, and recommend actions across patient acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and resource allocation.
Develop executive-ready business cases and decision memos that synthesize patient needs, operational realities, financial implications, risks, and required capabilities.
Create planning cadences, prioritization frameworks, and governance mechanisms to improve focus, accountability, execution, and cross-functional alignment.
Own key marketing, patient funnel, operational, and systems performance metrics, including new patient demand, inquiry response, appointment conversion, campaign performance, clinic capacity alignment, system adoption, and workflow efficiency.
Develop dashboards, reporting, and executive summaries linking marketing activity, patient journey performance, operational constraints, resource allocation, and growth.
Partner with Finance to evaluate business ROI, market economics, resource utilization, budget allocation, and growth tradeoffs.
Jointly track patient satisfaction, time-to-service, and administrative-burden reduction with operational and technology owners; technical KPIs such as platform availability, AI accuracy, model drift, and integration performance are not owned by this role.
Liaise among business stakeholders, clinical and finance operations leaders, and technology partners to define, document, and prioritize business requirements, functional specifications, workflows, and success measures.
Maintain ownership of operating processes after launch and recommend or implement adjustments based on business performance and frontline feedback.
Own current- and future-state patient-facing and internal processes, including role clarity, decision rights, handoffs, escalation paths, and data flows across functions and systems.
Own stakeholder alignment, operational readiness, business communications, role clarity, frontline engagement, and operating-procedure changes for approved initiatives.
Co-lead user-acceptance testing with operational users and provide business sign-off against defined acceptance criteria; Technology owns system and integration testing.
Partner with AI Transformation and Technology on rollout sequencing, training, adoption, and feedback loops; Technology owns technical training, release readiness, go-live, and post-launch stabilization.
Assess operating-model, process, capacity, and adoption risks and coordinate mitigation with accountable functional owners.
Perform other duties as assigned.