SNF Clinical Lead
About The Position
The SNF Clinical Lead serves as the clinical market leader for Sage’s skilled nursing expansion efforts. Reporting to the Head of Clinical, this role bridges frontline care delivery, data insights, and product adoption to drive measurable clinical and operational outcomes across SNF customer sites. This individual will build trusted relationships with Directors of Nursing and senior clinical leaders, lead clinical adoption strategies, and translate outcome data into credible narratives that support pilot success, customer retention, and portfolio expansion. The SNF Clinical Lead plays a critical role in turning early implementations into evidence-based proof points that reinforce Sage’s clinical value proposition in the post-acute market. Success in this role requires strong clinical fluency, comfort working in technology-enabled care environments, and the ability to quickly earn credibility with skeptical stakeholders while driving meaningful change in complex SNF settings. This role is based in NYC and requires up to 25% travel to support onsite clinical partnership with pilot and expansion communities, with a focus on accelerating product adoption, validating workflow integration, and ensuring Sage deployments translate into clear clinical and operational success.
Requirements
- RN with 5+ years experience, including direct SNF or post-acute care delivery and at least 1–2 years in a clinical success, implementation, or advisory capacity
- Deep familiarity with the regulatory landscape: CMS, PDPM, 5-Star Quality Rating System, hospital readmission reporting
- Expertise in clinical data analysis and synthesis: interpreting complex data and translating it into accurate, compelling narratives for executive-level customer presentations.
- Proven ability to build trust with clinical stakeholders quickly (this person earns credibility through clinical fluency and follow-through, not rapport alone)
- Comfort working in technology-enabled care environments, including dashboards, reporting tools, and clinical analytics platforms
Nice To Haves
- Experience working for a healthcare technology vendor, consultant, or managed services company
- Familiarity with leading SNF EMR platforms
- Prior leadership experience in clinical operations
- Comfort with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, or similar)
- Experience building or contributing to clinical quality improvement initiatives with measurable outcomes
- Familiarity with MDS assessment processes and how they connect to quality metrics
- Experience presenting to C-suite or regional operations leaders in a customer-facing or internal strategy context
- Track record of building clinical champions inside complex, matrixed organizations
- Prior involvement in sales support, pilot programs, or implementation work
- Comfort operating without established playbooks
- Experience in a high-growth or early-stage company where the role evolved quickly
Responsibilities
- Serve as Sage’s primary clinical partner for SNF customers.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with Directors of Nursing, Administrators, regional clinical leaders, and frontline staff
- Identify and develop clinical champions and convert skeptics into advocates through hands-on partnership
- Lead regular clinical engagement cadences across pilot and expansion sites
- Represent Sage’s clinical expertise in enterprise conversations
- Define, measure, and communicate the clinical impact of Sage deployments.
- Establish baseline clinical metrics and success criteria in partnership with customer leadership
- Monitor and interpret outcomes including hospital readmissions, response times, staffing efficiency, and quality indicators
- Partner with the Head of Clinical and Data teams to develop SNF-specific dashboards and reporting frameworks
- Translate outcomes into credible clinical narratives for facility, regional, and executive stakeholders support customer retention and expansion
- Turn successful implementations into scalable evidence of value.
- Develop clinical case studies, outcome summaries, and impact narratives
- Present results to facility and regional leaders to support pilot conversion and portfolio expansion
- Partner with Growth and Sales teams to reinforce clinical differentiation in enterprise deals
- Ensure Sage solutions align with real SNF workflows and clinical priorities.
- Observe care delivery workflows and recommend practical improvements to support sustained usage
- Provide structured feedback to Product and Customer Success teams on clinical workflow, adoption barriers, and feature needs
- Surface emerging market insights and operator priorities to inform Sage’s SNF strategy
Benefits
- Our benefits package for employees includes competitive base compensation along with stock options.
- We also provide fully-paid health and dental insurance coverage for all of our employees, along with other health benefits including vision insurance, membership to premium primary and urgent care, and online medical health providers.
- We also have a take as you need time off policy, in addition to 7 paid holidays and a company wide winter break during the holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
