Head Of Implementation

Heidi Health

$150K — $180K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years leading enterprise implementation in healthcare software
  • Experience managing multi-site deployments with diverse stakeholders
  • Proven ability to manage implementation leaders and technical resources
  • Fluency in enterprise health IT: SSO, EHR integration, clinical governance
  • Strong relationships with CIOs, CMIOs, and operational leaders in health systems
  • Judgment to identify whether issues are deployment or product-related
  • Comfort in building processes while delivering outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire technical deployment lifecycle from scope to stabilization
  • Develop the implementation methodology including stage gates and templates
  • Manage a central portfolio of enterprise deployments, ensuring resource allocation
  • Build and lead a diverse team of Implementation Managers and engineers
  • Ensure technical readiness to prevent go-live blockers
  • Interface with Product and Engineering for structured escalations on product gaps
  • Set and monitor metrics for technical onboarding and implementation effectiveness

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k with a 3% company match
  • $700 annual budget for learning and development
  • $100 monthly health and wellness allowance
  • $500 budget for home office setup
  • 26 weeks paid primary parental leave and 18 weeks paid secondary leave
  • Fertility support up to $7,000
  • Four weeks of remote work annually
  • Equity incentives
Full Job Description
The Role

Heidi's enterprise pipeline has scaled faster than the operating infrastructure behind it. Across every region, independently, the same gap keeps surfacing: a dedicated technical leader who owns the post-sales delivery of a signed contract through to a live, stable deployment. Not a project coordinator. Not an extended CSM. Someone who can sit with a hospital's IT team, sort out their identity environment, get the integration running correctly, and own that outcome. You will build the team, methodology, governance, metrics and cross-functional interfaces required to make implementation a competitive advantage.

This role reports into the Head of Program Management, sitting within the Programs function alongside Integrations and Enterprise.

What You'll Do
  • Own the full technical deployment lifecycle: scope confirmation, environment readiness, configuration, integration, cutover, go-live and stabilisation through to handover to CS
  • Build the implementation methodology from the ground up - stage gates, readiness criteria, templates, risk controls and executive reporting that work across health system sizes and regions
  • Run a central portfolio across all the technical components of enterprise deployments above threshold, including: staffing, sequencing, capacity planning, and trade-offs made at the business level
  • Build and lead the team: Implementation managers and engineering capacity across regions
  • Own the technical readiness process: get into deals early enough to confirm SSO, integration and environment requirements before they become go-live blockers
  • Define the interface with Product and Engineering: structured, evidence-based escalations for real product gaps, separated cleanly from deployment configuration
  • Set the metrics: time to technical onboarding, go-live milestone attainment, activated clinicians, implementation variance across comparable deployments
  • Recruit, develop and performance-manage a high-agency implementation team across regions

If we'd worked together the last 6 weeks, you'd have
  • Stood up a single portfolio view across multiple concurrent enterprise deployments, spotted capacity conflicts, and made the resourcing call before either became a customer problem
  • Scoped a complex on-prem deployment end-to-end with a health system's security, IT and procurement teams - requirements confirmed, sign-off timeline agreed, plan in writing before engineering committed a day
  • Made a build-vs-configure call on an EHR integration request, proved it was a deployment problem not a product gap, and closed it in four days rather than putting it in the roadmap
  • Run the kickoff for a five-site rollout: executive steering committee in the morning, IT dependency review with the trust's infrastructure team in the afternoon
  • Hired an Implementation Manager, handed them their first account, and had them running independently inside three weeks because the playbook was actually usable
  • Proposed a pre-signature checklist with Sales and Solutions Engineering so environment requirements are confirmed before contract, not after


What You'll Need
  • Significant experience building or leading enterprise implementation in healthcare software - health systems, EHR-integrated products, clinical AI, or complex clinical workflow platforms
  • You've run multi-site deployments involving clinicians, IT, security, procurement, legal and executive sponsors, and done it more than once
  • You've managed implementation leaders and technical implementation resources, not just delivered projects yourself
  • Real fluency with enterprise health IT: SSO and identity management, EHR integration patterns, clinical governance and sign-off processes
  • Executive credibility with CIOs, CMIOs and health system operational leaders
  • Judgment on the scope boundary: you know when a customer problem is a deployment problem, a configuration problem, or a product problem - and the spine to call it
  • Comfort building process while simultaneously delivering


If you answer 'NO' to these questions, this may not be the job for you
  • Have you personally turned a chaotic enterprise deployment into a repeatable system?
  • Do you find the politics of a health system IT environment more interesting than frustrating?
  • Can you run an executive steering committee and a technical dependency review in the same day without losing altitude?
  • Are you better at building the machine than running a machine someone else built?
  • Does the idea of making health systems dramatically easier to work in feel like a worthwhile way to spend the next few years?


How we show up
  • Build for the next decade, not next quarter. Our targets are outrageous on purpose. The world's health doesn't have the luxury of incrementalism.
  • Lead, don't wait. We treat tomorrow's problems today. Sometimes we build what's needed before it's wanted, and we're fine with that.
  • Follow the evidence. Trust the patient. We pursue truth relentlessly. But when the subjective and objective disagree, we treat the patient, not the numbers. Ego is a comorbidity we can't afford.
  • Own the outcome. Everyone here carries the company. Raise problems with solutions, solve them end-to-end, and never be a bystander.
  • Ship, measure, go again. A button today, a workflow tomorrow. More iterations beat better planning. We're precise at pace, not reckless.
  • Live in clinicians' reality. Not the ideal workflow, the twenty-patients-before-lunch actual one. We build for exhausted humans, and we'd better be decent ones while we do it.


We take care of you

We offer healthcare, dental and vision benefits, a 401k with 3% company match, a $700 annual learning and development budget, a $100/month health and wellness allowance, a $500 home office budget, 26 weeks paid primary parental leave and 18 weeks paid secondary parental leave, fertility support up to $7,000, four weeks of work from anywhere per year, and serious equity.

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