Director of Patient Support Operations

About the Role: As the Director of Patient Support Operations, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for scheduling, patient communications, intake, call center operations, referral coordination, administrative workflow management, and operational support. This role is accountable for ensuring operational excellence through scalable processes, strong people leadership, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making. This leader is responsible for developing people, optimizing workflows, scaling operations, and partnering across Clinical Operations, Technology, Product, Revenue Cycle, and Provider teams to continuously improve how patients interact with Heartbeat. You'll combine strategic leadership with operational excellence to ensure our Heart Heroes have the tools, processes, and coaching they need to deliver best-in-class service while supporting rapid company growth. What You'll Own: Team Leadership Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Heart Heroes and frontline managers. Establish performance expectations, career development plans, and ongoing coaching programs. Foster a culture of accountability, empathy, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Recruit, onboard, and retain exceptional talent. Operational Excellence Own the day-to-day operations of the Heart Hero organization. Develop scalable workflows that improve efficiency while maintaining a world-class patient experience. Monitor operational KPIs including: Service levels Speed to answer Answer rate Scheduling turnaround time Referral turnaround time Queue performance Quality scores Patient satisfaction/engagement Productivity metrics Identify bottlenecks and implement process improvements using data. Patient Experience Champion a seamless patient experience across every touchpoint. Provide QA support and oversight to ensure and improve quality of patient interactions Partner with Clinical Operations to improve communication, education, and care coordination. Ensure consistent, compassionate, and high-quality interactions across phone, email, text, and virtual platforms. Develop quality assurance programs and service standards. Cross-Functional Partnership Partner with Product and Engineering to improve internal tools and patient-facing technology. Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Clinical Operations, Credentialing, and Provider Operations to streamline workflows. Translate frontline feedback into product and operational improvements. Lead change management initiatives across the organization. Strategy & Analytics Develop dashboards and reporting to monitor operational health. Analyze trends in patient engagement, scheduling, escalations, and operational performance. Build scalable staffing models and workforce planning strategies. Establish SOPs and documentation that support rapid growth. Compliance & Quality Ensure operational processes comply with HIPAA and organizational policies. Maintain high standards for documentation, data quality, and patient privacy. Lead quality assurance and audit initiatives. What You Bring: 7+ years of healthcare operations or patient services experience 5+ years leading high-performing customer service, patient operations, or care coordination teams Experience managing high-volume operational organizations, which could include a clinical or general call center. Proven success building operational processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment Strong analytical skills with experience using operational metrics to drive decision making Excellent communication and executive presentation skills Experience partnering cross-functionally with clinical, product, and operations teams Demonstrated success leading organizational change Passion for improving patient experience through operational excellence How We Work: Our core development team is small and intentionally lean. Every team member has outsized impact on how the platform grows. We value solutions that are understandable, maintainable, and right-sized. We ship small, testable increments and adjust based on what we learn. Our process is Kanban-style flow — not rigid sprints or bloated backlogs. We invest in tooling and observability so we can understand what's happening in production and move quickly with confidence. We avoid silos. Engineers collaborate directly with product, clinical, and compliance stakeholders through shared ownership, not handoffs. The best outcomes come from close, cross-functional work - not heavyweight processes or long ticket queues. This is a remote-first, high-autonomy environment. You need to be comfortable working independently, collaborating asynchronously, and shipping incrementally. About Our Culture: We are mission-driven: we're revolutionizing the way cardiovascular care is delivered We are fast-paced & agile: we move quickly, iterate often, and value experimentation We are remote-first: flexibility, autonomy, and trust are at the core of how we operate We care about diversity: diversity allows us to build an excellent patient experience W e are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status