Strategic Initiatives Lead, AI

Thyme Care

5d • $136,000 - $200,000

About The Position

We're hiring a Strategic Initiatives Lead to own and drive high-stakes, ambiguous programs at the intersection of AI and new business development. You'll start with shaping a new business line that helps Thyme Care ensure every member gets appropriate, high-quality cancer care. As we learn, you will follow new threads and prioritize new exploration.
This role sits adjacent to AI Platform and will lead new, AI-heavy builds from early hypothesis through execution and scale. You'll work directly with our Head of AI and partner across Payer and Provider Growth, Product, Clinical, Ops, Legal, and Security.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or business building roles within healthcare or healthcare-adjacent environments
• Strong track record of building from scratch; owning large-scale initiatives from early concept through launch, iteration, and scale
• Experience operating in tech-forward or AI-enabled environments, with demonstrated ability to engage deeply with technical teams and understand system capabilities, trade-offs, and constraints
• Experience evaluating, partnering with, or operationalizing emerging technologies (e.g., AI vendors, platform tooling, data infrastructure)
• Structured problem solving in complex, high-stakes environments
• Experience operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-evolving contexts where direction and constraints are not fully defined
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor narratives for executive, clinical, and external audiences
• Experience leading large programs in highly cross-functional environments

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare experience (payer, provider, or value-based care)
• Data-oriented mindset; ability to understand and work with healthcare data
• Experience in consulting, investing, or corporate strategy setting

Responsibilities

• Own strategic programs end-to-end: from hypothesis refinement through execution and scaling
• Translate ambiguous business problems into structured hypotheses, experiments and workplans with clear artifacts
• Exercise rigorous prioritization: define clear success criteria up front, invest behind the highest-leverage opportunities, and decisively sunset initiatives that don’t meet the bar
• Interface with customers, partners, and other stakeholders to share our vision, gather feedback, and establish and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships
• Establish, refine and simplify product requirements and business cases for new initiatives
• Develop internal strategy materials and external-facing pitch decks, positioning and go to market assets
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Clinical, Product, Partnerships, Legal, and Ops
• Represent Thyme credibly to senior external stakeholders (members, payers, providers, partners)
• Build durable playbooks to scale and harden programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed