Rightway
Director, Navigation Service Delivery
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Rightway Rightway Care Navigation helps members confidently navigate the healthcare system by combining human advocacy, clinical expertise, and technology to deliver personalized, end-to-end support. Our Care Navigation teams guide members through complex medical decisions, benefits understanding, provider selection, care coordination, and cost transparency—driving better health outcomes, lower costs, and a simpler healthcare experience. About the Role
The Director, Navigation Service Delivery is a senior operational leader accountable for scaling and continuously improving Rightway’s Care Navigation delivery team. This role is responsible for the end-to-end operational performance of the Navigation contact center, ensuring exceptional member and client outcomes, strong employee engagement, and disciplined operational execution as the business continues to grow rapidly. This leader will build and mature a high‑performing leadership team, establish operational rigor and repeatability, and partner cross‑functionally across Clinical, Product, Client Success, Analytics, Finance, and Commercial teams. The Director will also serve as a client‑facing operational executive, representing Care Navigation performance, risks, and improvement plans with clarity and credibility. The ideal candidate is a strategic, employee‑centric, and transformational operator: someone who thrives in ambiguity, scales teams and systems thoughtfully, and leads with empathy, accountability, and operational discipline. What You’ll Do
Operational Leadership & Scale
Own and scale the day‑to‑day Care Navigation service delivery operation, ensuring reliable performance, quality, and compliance in a rapidly growing environment. Translate Care Navigation and enterprise strategy into clear operational plans, metrics, and execution roadmaps. Establish and evolve operational structures, governance, and operating rhythms that drive accountability, clarity, and sustainable execution. Own financial and operational efficiency for Care Navigation by driving cost containment, productivity optimization, and disciplined resource allocation to consistently achieve budgetary goals while maintaining high‑quality member and client outcomes. Leverage forecasting, capacity planning, and efficiency metrics to balance growth, service levels, and cost to serve. Provide executive oversight of omni‑channel Care Navigation operations (phone, chat, digital, outbound), including ownership of call center performance metrics such as service levels, productivity, quality, utilization, and member experience KPIs, ensuring scalable, data‑driven management as volumes and complexity grow.
People Leadership & Talent Development
Build, coach, and develop a high‑performing leadership team with a strong focus on growing current and next‑generation leaders. Mentor, challenge, and empower leaders by creating a feedback‑rich, psychologically safe environment that encourages thoughtful risk‑taking, learning through failure, and continuous growth. Invest deeply in leadership development by providing clarity, coaching, and accountability while giving leaders the autonomy and trust to stretch beyond their comfort zones. Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, retention, performance management, and employee relations. Cultivate a culture of accountability, ownership, compassion, and continuous improvement across the Care Navigation organization.
Client & Cross‑Functional Partnership
Serve as a client‑facing operational leader, partnering with Client Success to address delivery performance, risks, and remediation plans. Collaborate closely with Product, Clinical, Finance, Analytics, and Technology teams to improve workflows, tools, and member experience. Act as the Voice of Operations and Voice of the Customer, using data and insight to influence product roadmaps, operational investments, and service design.
Performance Management & Analytics
Define, monitor, and act on key operational KPIs to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Leverage root cause analysis and customer insight to drive meaningful, sustainable operational change. Advance member experience outcomes, including NPS and CSAT, through targeted interventions and continuous improvement efforts. Partner closely with Product and Technology teams to ensure operational systems, tools, and workflows are continuously optimized and modernized to support scale, efficiency, and adaptability in a rapidly evolving environment. Advocate for solutions that reduce manual work, improve data visibility, and drive measurable gains in operational efficiency and member experience.
Process Excellence & Compliance
Ensure process effectiveness through well‑defined standard operating procedures, training programs, and quality frameworks. Drive continuous process improvement to enhance outcomes, minimize friction, and lower the cost to serve. Ensure full compliance with healthcare regulations, including HIPAA, and internal policies across all operational functions. Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to inform operational evolution and continuous improvement.
Who You Are
A seasoned operational leader with demonstrated success scaling complex, people‑intensive service organizations. Proven ability to build high‑performing teams and develop leaders at multiple levels. Strategic yet execution‑oriented, able to translate vision into disciplined operational delivery. Deeply employee‑centric, with high emotional intelligence and a track record of building engaged, accountable teams. Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast‑changing environments while bringing structure and clarity where needed. Strong business acumen with the ability to influence cross‑functional partners and senior stakeholders. Data‑driven, analytical, and decisive, with a bias toward action and continuous improvement. Confident and credible in client‑facing settings, particularly around performance, risk, and outcomes. Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. 7+ years of progressive operational leadership experience, including managing managers. Healthcare, healthcare advocacy, care navigation, or related experience strongly preferred. Extensive experience leading and scaling multi‑channel service delivery or contact center operations, preferably in healthcare or a regulated environment. Demonstrated success managing geographically distributed and remote teams. Strong performance management, forecasting, and capacity planning experience. Experience building, revamping, or scaling operations during periods of rapid growth. Proven ability to lead transformation while maintaining service stability. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Salary
Salary: $130,000 – $150,000 per year (offers for both remote and in‑office roles are influenced by geographic location). Cybersecurity Awareness Notice
In response to ongoing and industry‑wide fraudulent recruitment activities (i.e., job scams), Rightway wants to inform potential candidates that we will only contact them from the @rightwayhealthcare.com email domain. We will never ask for bank details or deposits of any kind as a condition of employment. About Rightway
Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Our products guide patients to the best care and medications by inserting clinicians and pharmacists into a patient’s care journey through a modern, mobile app. Rightway is a front door to healthcare, giving patients the tools they need along with on‑demand access to Rightway health guides, human experts that answer their questions and manage the frustrating parts of healthcare for them. Our Core Values
We are human, first: We bring a respectful, empathetic approach to every individual we engage with, whether members, clients, or teammates. We redefine what is possible: We look beyond obstacles to imagine new solutions, using ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with tough problems. We debate then commit: We foster open discourse, challenge assumptions, and once a decision is made, we align and champion it as one team. We cultivate grit: We persist through challenges, embrace failure as a learning step, and act with resilience and initiative. We seek to delight: We meet client and member goals while delivering the best experience, remaining kind, respectful, and solution‑oriented. Equal Opportunity Employer
Rightway is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in strength in the diversity of thought processes, beliefs, background and education and fosters an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated to drive the best business decisions possible. We do not discriminate on any basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the consideration of merit, qualifications, need and performance.
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Rightway Rightway Care Navigation helps members confidently navigate the healthcare system by combining human advocacy, clinical expertise, and technology to deliver personalized, end-to-end support. Our Care Navigation teams guide members through complex medical decisions, benefits understanding, provider selection, care coordination, and cost transparency—driving better health outcomes, lower costs, and a simpler healthcare experience. About the Role
The Director, Navigation Service Delivery is a senior operational leader accountable for scaling and continuously improving Rightway’s Care Navigation delivery team. This role is responsible for the end-to-end operational performance of the Navigation contact center, ensuring exceptional member and client outcomes, strong employee engagement, and disciplined operational execution as the business continues to grow rapidly. This leader will build and mature a high‑performing leadership team, establish operational rigor and repeatability, and partner cross‑functionally across Clinical, Product, Client Success, Analytics, Finance, and Commercial teams. The Director will also serve as a client‑facing operational executive, representing Care Navigation performance, risks, and improvement plans with clarity and credibility. The ideal candidate is a strategic, employee‑centric, and transformational operator: someone who thrives in ambiguity, scales teams and systems thoughtfully, and leads with empathy, accountability, and operational discipline. What You’ll Do
Operational Leadership & Scale
Own and scale the day‑to‑day Care Navigation service delivery operation, ensuring reliable performance, quality, and compliance in a rapidly growing environment. Translate Care Navigation and enterprise strategy into clear operational plans, metrics, and execution roadmaps. Establish and evolve operational structures, governance, and operating rhythms that drive accountability, clarity, and sustainable execution. Own financial and operational efficiency for Care Navigation by driving cost containment, productivity optimization, and disciplined resource allocation to consistently achieve budgetary goals while maintaining high‑quality member and client outcomes. Leverage forecasting, capacity planning, and efficiency metrics to balance growth, service levels, and cost to serve. Provide executive oversight of omni‑channel Care Navigation operations (phone, chat, digital, outbound), including ownership of call center performance metrics such as service levels, productivity, quality, utilization, and member experience KPIs, ensuring scalable, data‑driven management as volumes and complexity grow.
People Leadership & Talent Development
Build, coach, and develop a high‑performing leadership team with a strong focus on growing current and next‑generation leaders. Mentor, challenge, and empower leaders by creating a feedback‑rich, psychologically safe environment that encourages thoughtful risk‑taking, learning through failure, and continuous growth. Invest deeply in leadership development by providing clarity, coaching, and accountability while giving leaders the autonomy and trust to stretch beyond their comfort zones. Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, retention, performance management, and employee relations. Cultivate a culture of accountability, ownership, compassion, and continuous improvement across the Care Navigation organization.
Client & Cross‑Functional Partnership
Serve as a client‑facing operational leader, partnering with Client Success to address delivery performance, risks, and remediation plans. Collaborate closely with Product, Clinical, Finance, Analytics, and Technology teams to improve workflows, tools, and member experience. Act as the Voice of Operations and Voice of the Customer, using data and insight to influence product roadmaps, operational investments, and service design.
Performance Management & Analytics
Define, monitor, and act on key operational KPIs to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Leverage root cause analysis and customer insight to drive meaningful, sustainable operational change. Advance member experience outcomes, including NPS and CSAT, through targeted interventions and continuous improvement efforts. Partner closely with Product and Technology teams to ensure operational systems, tools, and workflows are continuously optimized and modernized to support scale, efficiency, and adaptability in a rapidly evolving environment. Advocate for solutions that reduce manual work, improve data visibility, and drive measurable gains in operational efficiency and member experience.
Process Excellence & Compliance
Ensure process effectiveness through well‑defined standard operating procedures, training programs, and quality frameworks. Drive continuous process improvement to enhance outcomes, minimize friction, and lower the cost to serve. Ensure full compliance with healthcare regulations, including HIPAA, and internal policies across all operational functions. Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to inform operational evolution and continuous improvement.
Who You Are
A seasoned operational leader with demonstrated success scaling complex, people‑intensive service organizations. Proven ability to build high‑performing teams and develop leaders at multiple levels. Strategic yet execution‑oriented, able to translate vision into disciplined operational delivery. Deeply employee‑centric, with high emotional intelligence and a track record of building engaged, accountable teams. Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast‑changing environments while bringing structure and clarity where needed. Strong business acumen with the ability to influence cross‑functional partners and senior stakeholders. Data‑driven, analytical, and decisive, with a bias toward action and continuous improvement. Confident and credible in client‑facing settings, particularly around performance, risk, and outcomes. Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. 7+ years of progressive operational leadership experience, including managing managers. Healthcare, healthcare advocacy, care navigation, or related experience strongly preferred. Extensive experience leading and scaling multi‑channel service delivery or contact center operations, preferably in healthcare or a regulated environment. Demonstrated success managing geographically distributed and remote teams. Strong performance management, forecasting, and capacity planning experience. Experience building, revamping, or scaling operations during periods of rapid growth. Proven ability to lead transformation while maintaining service stability. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Salary
Salary: $130,000 – $150,000 per year (offers for both remote and in‑office roles are influenced by geographic location). Cybersecurity Awareness Notice
In response to ongoing and industry‑wide fraudulent recruitment activities (i.e., job scams), Rightway wants to inform potential candidates that we will only contact them from the @rightwayhealthcare.com email domain. We will never ask for bank details or deposits of any kind as a condition of employment. About Rightway
Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Our products guide patients to the best care and medications by inserting clinicians and pharmacists into a patient’s care journey through a modern, mobile app. Rightway is a front door to healthcare, giving patients the tools they need along with on‑demand access to Rightway health guides, human experts that answer their questions and manage the frustrating parts of healthcare for them. Our Core Values
We are human, first: We bring a respectful, empathetic approach to every individual we engage with, whether members, clients, or teammates. We redefine what is possible: We look beyond obstacles to imagine new solutions, using ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with tough problems. We debate then commit: We foster open discourse, challenge assumptions, and once a decision is made, we align and champion it as one team. We cultivate grit: We persist through challenges, embrace failure as a learning step, and act with resilience and initiative. We seek to delight: We meet client and member goals while delivering the best experience, remaining kind, respectful, and solution‑oriented. Equal Opportunity Employer
Rightway is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in strength in the diversity of thought processes, beliefs, background and education and fosters an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated to drive the best business decisions possible. We do not discriminate on any basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the consideration of merit, qualifications, need and performance.
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