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Director, Operations - Provider Performance

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of direct experience in provider performance operations
  • 15+ years of experience in business operations or healthcare operations
  • 8+ years of direct people management experience
  • Deep understanding of clinical network operations and provider metrics

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a holistic provider performance vision
  • Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing operations team
  • Partner with Data Analytics to build a unified data vision
  • Oversee the development of operational tools and cross-program dashboards

About the company

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Lyra Health

Mental Health Care

Lyra Health is a leading provider of innovative mental health benefits for more than 2.5 million global employees and dependents and is transforming mental health care by creating a frictionless experience for members, providers, and employers. Using matching technology and an innovative digital platform, Lyra quickly connects companies and their employees — plus spouses and children — to world-class therapists, mental health coaches, and personalized medication prescribing. Leading employers partner with Lyra to deliver tailored, value-driven mental health benefits to their people. With Lyra, benefits leaders can offer employees fast, reliable access to providers who practice evidence-based mental health care treatments. For more information, visit lyrahealth.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Lyra, please go directly to our Careers Page: https://lnkd.in/gKEGj8uy Lyra Health will never ask you to download software, purchase equipment, or pay a fee of any sort to explore employment opportunities with our company. In addition, Lyra will not ask for your personal banking information until you are ready to be onboarded as an employee, which will only occur after several rounds of interviews with our company, the completion of necessary onboarding paperwork, and the issuance of an offer letter for employment. Our recruiting emails come from @lyrahealth.com or @lyraclinical.com addresses and will never originate from gmail.com, yahoo.com, or other commercial email services.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryMental Health Care
Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Director of Operations – Provider Performance to establish and execute a holistic provider performance strategy across all of Lyra’s clinical service lines. In this role, you will lead a high-impact team operating at the intersection of clinical strategy, data analytics, and operational execution. Your mandate is to optimize provider performance which will further drive clinical quality, client access to care, and business results.

As a strategic player-coach, you will partner closely with Service Line leaders, Clinical Operations, and Data Analytics to build scalable data infrastructure, operational tools, and executive reporting. You will translate complex performance insights into actionable dashboards and operational systems that drive data visibility for providers, managers and executive leadership.


What You’ll Do:
  • Strategic Vision & Roadmap Ownership: Define and execute a holistic provider performance vision, establishing standardized, scalable frameworks across all clinical service lines

  • Team Leadership & Scale: Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing operations team. Set high-impact priorities and support professional development for direct reports.

  • Data Vision & Analytics Governance: Partner directly with the Data Analytics team to build a unified data vision. Establish centralized systems to measure, track, and predict provider availability, capacity, and performance across diverse employment models

  • Systems & Tooling Execution: Oversee the development of operational tools, workflows, and cross-program dashboards that empower clinical managers to drive day-to-day performance and provide executive leadership with real-time visibility 

  • Strategic Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a core operational partner to senior leadership on strategic growth initiatives, with an immediate focus on optimizing provider availability, network utilization, and productivity across our Adult Outpatient Service Line


  • Requirements:
  • Core Requirement — Provider Performance Experience: 5+ years of direct, hands-on experience designing, scaling, or managing provider performance operations, clinical productivity frameworks, or provider network operations within a healthcare organization, health tech company, or large provider network.

  • 15+ years of experience in business operations, management consulting, healthcare operations, or high-growth health tech; experience scaling complex operations preferred.

  • 8+ years of direct people management experience, with a track record of scaling high-performing teams and building strong team cultures.

  • Domain Knowledge of Provider Metrics: Deep understanding of clinical network operations and core provider metrics (e.g., panel management, utilization rates, clinical outcome tracking)

  • Data & Analytics Expertise: Proven ability to scope analytical frameworks, synthesize complex data sets, and partner effectively with analytics teams to translate raw data into operational tools and dashboards.

  • Executive Influence: Demonstrated experience building strategic roadmaps and aligning executive leadership, clinical leaders, and cross-functional teams around shared outcomes.

  • Execution & Change Management: A self-starter who thrives in ambiguous environments, with a proven ability to turn complex, disparate processes into standardized, scalable systems.

  • Mission Alignment: Passionate about expanding access to high-quality, evidence-based mental health care.

  • "We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.
     
    By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra.  We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR.  Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives.  If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form.  This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA. Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact globaldpo@lyrahealth.com. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."

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