Director of Operations - California
Leads California healthcare operations, managing local leaders and patient-facing care teams to meet clinical, operational, and financial goals while improving care access, coordination, and quality.
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Director, Provider Performance & Analytics to build and oversee the measurement architecture for provider performance across all clinical service lines. In this role, you will define how Lyra measures provider capacity, availability, schedule utilization, productivity, and quality across a diverse clinical workforce spanning therapy, coaching, medication management, high-acuity care, substance use treatment, and neuropsychology.
Operating at the intersection of Clinical Leadership, Operations, Data Analytics, Finance, and Product, you will establish common performance definitions, build scalable measurement frameworks and executive dashboards, diagnose systemic performance variation, and translate data insights into operational management systems.
The ideal candidate brings strong healthcare analytics and performance expertise—combining hands-on quantitative data fluency and systems thinking with proven operational judgment in a complex healthcare environment.
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. "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."Performance Architecture & Vision: Define the multi-year roadmap for provider performance measurement and management across therapy, coaching, medication management, high-acuity care, substance use treatment, neuropsychology, and future service lines. Establish a unified performance architecture that appropriately accounts for differences in clinical disciplines, care modalities, and patient populations.
Metric Logic & Data Governance: Partner with Clinical, Analytics, Finance, and Operations leaders to define the exact metrics and methodologies for provider supply, availability, active panel capacity, schedule utilization, productivity, and access. Establish standardized metric definitions, governance, and single sources of truth across the enterprise.
Analytics, Dashboards & Decision Support: Translate performance strategy into actionable dashboards, scorecards, forecasting capabilities, and decision-support tools. Ensure data is tailored for action across all levels—from frontline providers and clinical managers to service-line and C-suite leadership.
Systemic Diagnosis & Capacity Oversight: Develop scalable approaches to model provider capacity across employment models (W2 vs. 1099), clinical specialties, and care modalities. Partner with service-line leaders to establish appropriate productivity expectations and identify the operational drivers of provider availability and utilization.
Ownership of Provider Reviews & Escalations: Establish mechanisms for provider goal setting, performance reviews, and escalations. Partner closely with Clinical Leadership and People teams on appropriate ownership of individual provider performance.
Executive Reporting & Business Reviews: Develop executive-level reporting and recurring business-review mechanisms (WBRs/QBRs) that clearly communicate network trends, variations, risks, and opportunities, helping senior leaders translate insights into organizational priorities and investment decisions.
Team Scaling & Cross-Functional Leadership: Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing operations and analytics team, and serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders across Clinical, Operations, Analytics, Finance, Product, and People to build alignment.
8–12+ Years in Healthcare Analytics, Health-Tech Operations, Care Delivery, or Strategy: Proven experience leading complex analytical or operational initiatives within health systems, care delivery organizations, multi-site medical groups, tech-enabled health platforms, value-based care, or healthcare management consulting.
5+ Years of Direct People Management: Demonstrated track record of scaling high-performing analytics or operations teams and fostering a culture of disciplined problem-solving.
Systems Thinking & Problem Structuring: Exceptional ability to break down complex, ambiguous business problems, define underlying metric frameworks, isolate root-cause drivers, and translate quantitative insights into clear operational solutions.
Quantitative Data Fluency: Hands-on technical data comfort (e.g., SQL, BI platforms like Domo/Tableau/Looker, data schema scoping) with a strong track record of partnering directly with Data Science, Engineering, and BI teams on data modeling and metric logic.
Strategic Clinical & Executive Partnership: Proven track record of collaborating effectively with non-technical executive stakeholders—especially clinical or medical leaders—to build buy-in, translate complex data, and establish shared operational goals.
Direct Care Delivery & Provider Analytics Depth: Prior experience specifically designing provider performance measurement frameworks, capacity models, or schedule utilization metrics within a medical group, health system, or direct care delivery organization.
Complex Network & Employment Scaling: Experience managing performance metrics or capacity modeling across heterogeneous clinician types (e.g., prescribers vs. therapists) or hybrid employment models (W2 vs. 1099).
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