ChiefOperatingOfficer

## Description Reports to: CEO    |    Member, Executive Team    |    Location: Remote (US) Starting Base Salary: $287,500 (50th percentile)    |    6-Month Salary: $328,660 (65th percentile) ## I. Who We’re Looking For CareMessage reaches more than six million patients across nearly 500 safety-net organizations in 45+ states and territories. We are hiring a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to help shape where CareMessage is headed and to build the operating capacity that turns that strategy into patient impact, so that every dollar and every person is deployed in direct service of health equity. This is a senior executive role and a full member of the Executive Team, reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a strategic thought partner in shaping the organization's direction. The COO leads a multi-functional team spanning People Operations, Finance, Compliance and Risk, Operations, and IT, but leads it in service of a larger charge: helping support CareMessage's multi-year strategy and bringing an operating point of view to how we get there. The mandate is not to grow the organization by adding headcount; it is to build the operating model, systems, and discipline that turn that strategy into a disciplined reality and multiply mission impact, while keeping the team lean, supported, and growing in alignment with our priorities. Equally important: we need a leader who will own CareMessage's AI strategy for how we operate, not as a cost play, but as a strategic lever for scale and quality. That means the policies, tooling, workflow adoption, and staffing implications that let us do more with a smaller, more capable team. The best modern operating leaders are building organizations where technology absorbs routine work and surfaces decisions, freeing people to focus on the highest-judgment, highest-impact work. We expect this person to bring that mindset to CareMessage. This role partners closely with every function on the Executive Team and with our Key Functional Lea