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Reporting into the Director, Provider Operations, the Virta Medical Group is searching for a physician leader to lead and mentor a team of 10-12 nurse practitioners while seeing a part-time panel of Virta patients (0.2 FTE equivalent). In addition to core team leadership responsibilities, the MD Team Lead serves as a physician leader within VMG, helping advance clinical excellence, provider development, and strategic organizational priorities.

The MD Team Lead is responsible for driving team performance, supporting physician growth and development, and fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and clinical excellence. This role partners closely with VMG leadership to identify best practices, improve care delivery, and ensure physicians are effectively contributing to the broader success of the organization. Success in this role is measured through team performance, clinical outcomes, member experience, employee engagement, physician development, and contribution to organizational priorities.

Responsibilities

Team Performance & Physician Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of physicians to achieve clinical, operational, and engagement goals.

• Establish a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.

• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, career development conversations, and ongoing coaching.

• Identify performance gaps and proactively develop improvement plans to support clinician success through partnership with Clinical Education Lead.

• Recognize and develop high-performing clinicians, creating opportunities for growth and leadership development.

• Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of physician team members.

Clinical Excellence & Quality Oversight

• Monitor team performance across quality, clinical outcomes, member experience, and productivity metrics.

• Conduct regular reviews of physician performance and provide actionable feedback to improve care delivery.

• Perform clinical quality assurance activities and support adherence to evidence-based care standards.

• Partner with VMG leadership to identify emerging quality concerns and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Maintain a small patient panel and model excellence in patient care.

Best Practice Identification & Operational Improvement

• Identify trends, barriers, and opportunities impacting team performance and patient outcomes.

• Surface and share best practices across teams to improve consistency and effectiveness of care delivery.

• Provide frontline insights and feedback to Provider Operations and Clinical Program Management leaders regarding opportunities for workflow, process, and program improvements.

• Support implementation and adoption of new programs, tools, workflows, and organizational initiatives.

• Foster collaboration across VMG teams to advance organizational priorities and improve provider effectiveness.

Must-Haves

• MD or DO degree with unrestricted license to practice medicine in at least one U.S. state, with expectation of obtaining more licenses over time.

  • Multiple state licenses are helpful, but only the willingness & ability to get additional licenses are required with expectation that licensure will expand to 15+ states if required to support business operations.

• Board certification in a relevant specialty.

• 2+ years of direct people management experience, including coaching, performance management, and physician development.

• Demonstrated success leading teams to achieve clinical, quality, productivity, and engagement goals.

• Experience interpreting performance data and using insights to drive accountability and continuous improvement.

• Strong coaching and feedback skills, with a passion for developing physicians and future leaders.

• Demonstrated ability to influence peers and build alignment across physician teams.

• Experience identifying best practices and driving adoption of change within a clinical environment.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills.

• Ability to balance direct patient care responsibilities with leadership and organizational priorities.

• Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced, or rapidly evolving healthcare environment preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading physician teams in a virtual, value-based, or population health setting.

• Experience contributing to clinical education, protocol development, quality improvement, or commercial initiatives.

• Experience representing a clinical organization in customer-facing, educational, or cross-functional settings.

• Demonstrated track record of developing physician leaders and mentoring colleagues.

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

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Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $200,000- $235,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.

As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.

Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI

Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.

Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at https://www.ashbyhq.com/resources/terms-ai-features

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