Director of Business Operations

About Vumedi:

Vumedi is the largest video education platform for doctors worldwide. We distribute timely and relevant educational content that makes it easier than ever for healthcare professionals to get access to medical advances and learning. Ultimately, our mission is to help clinicians make optimal patient care decisions and improve outcomes through comprehensive video education. Vumedi works with world-renowned key opinion leaders, hospitals, and societies, and we have registered over 600,000 physicians and offer 50,000 videos. It is free for all physicians and the company's growth has exploded as pandemic trends became permanent, with physicians turning to asynchronous video education to keep abreast of practice-changing advances in treatment. Vumedi is making key hires to keep pace with demand and expansion.

About the Opportunity:

We are hiring a Director of Business Operations, based in the Oakland area. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work closely with executive leadership during a period of rapid growth. This leadership role is pivotal in driving operational excellence, optimizing business processes, and supporting the execution of strategic initiatives. Vumedi has a collaborative, transparent culture, and we want to hire someone who is a self-starter, interested in learning and developing the business and growing along with us for the long-term.

What You'll Do:

• Establish rhythm of business (RoB) incorporating process and cadence for OKRs, all hands meetings, leadership meetings, Board meetings, quarterly business reviews, etc.
• Organize and facilitate leadership team meetings to include curating agendas, setting priorities, and tracking decisions and action items to ensure follow up
• Utilizing OKR best practices, help leaders write their OKRs that align with company priorities and ensure accountability and outputs with frequent check points
• Be an integral part of yearly strategy and company goal planning
• Be a right hand to the CEO during quarterly planning and for special projects
• Partner directly with senior leaders and cross functional teams to solve hard scaling initiatives and incubate new programs
• Surface and drive initiatives that will most move the needle on our top company metrics
• Strategic advisor, thought partner and confidant; a highly trusted person with whom to discuss and pressure‐test ideas
• Provide an extra set of hands to help with or lead strategic priorities or special projects as defined by the leadership team
  
  

About You:

• Highly objective, structured thinker comfortable using frameworks to evaluate decisions; Uses analytical skills to interpret, translate and simplify complexity to others exploring a range of solutions and recommendations to drive business growth
• Exceptional organizational skills as it relates to weekly, monthly, quarterly timelines; Able to help bring order and effectively manage complex and ambiguous projects
• Strong business acumen to understand what each department does and inherent risks and opportunities
• Self-starter acts with an entrepreneurial spirit, identifying opportunities and taking action on them with a sense of urgency; Biased to action
• High EQ with humility and maturity; Enjoy new challenges, thrive in ambiguity, highly adaptable with intellectual flexibility to work across all topics and functions
• Understands navigating an organizational matrix to get things done with strong accountability without dropping the ball
• Able to see the big picture of things with a strategic mindset aligning detailed work to the overall strategy
• Effective communication skills across different mediums; Able to influence and connect with key stakeholders and use those communication skills to move work forward while driving consensus and collaboration across senior leadership
• Enthusiastic, positive and creative attitude
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with proven experience (10+ years) driving business strategy and operations in high growth environments with broad exposure to multiple functions; MBA or higher degree preferred
• Consulting background from a top consulting firm with exposure to a wide range of business problems; SaaS / Healthcare / Startup experience is a plus
• Stage relevant experience understanding how similar companies operate
• Ability to work across the entire company, from executive staff to individual contributors in all areas to drive rapid, cross-functional projects and deliverables
• Proven record of success launching "0 to 1" projects and executing on them
• Proven record of project management in high ambiguity, high flexibility environments
• Demonstrated consistent cross-functional collaborator and business partner, directly contributing to teams to achieve overall objectives
• Experience driving large initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research/analysis to building the business and operational plans through to driving execution to success is required
• Experience facilitating meetings with a strong focus on goals and outcomes