Medical Director – Addiction Medicine, Telehealth

Boulder Care

Medical Director responsible for delivering high-quality addiction medicine care at Boulder Care. Leading clinical governance and quality strategies across a multi-state telehealth platform.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a senior clinical leader and addiction medicine subject matter expert across the organization.
Partner with Clinical Services leadership to strengthen clinical quality, consistency, and patient safety across Boulder’s care delivery model.
Lead routine review and refinement of clinical protocols, formulary standards, and evidence-based practice guidelines.
Support quality assurance activities, chart review processes, and clinical audits to identify opportunities for improvement.
Provide consultation and guidance on complex clinical cases and emerging clinical issues.
Ensure Boulder’s clinical standards remain aligned with current evidence, regulatory requirements, and payer expectations.
Partner with Clinical Services leadership to strengthen clinical leadership capabilities across the organization.
Provide mentorship, coaching, and support to clinical leaders and clinicians navigating complex clinical and operational challenges.
Help establish and reinforce standards of clinical excellence, professional growth, and evidence-based practice.
Contribute physician leadership and oversight to clinician education, onboarding standards, and ongoing clinical development programs.
Support the development of systems that promote accountability, consistency, and continuous improvement across the clinical organization.
Translate quality findings, operational priorities, and emerging evidence into scalable clinical workflows and care delivery standards.
Identify gaps in clinical processes, policies, and infrastructure and partner across teams to implement solutions.
Support implementation of new clinical initiatives and ensure clinical best practices are operationally viable and consistently applied.
Drive adoption of new clinical workflows, protocols, and care models across a distributed clinical workforce.
Partner with Medical Affairs and Clinical Services leadership to evaluate and support expansion into new service lines and care models.
Assess clinical readiness, staffing considerations, protocol requirements, and quality implications for new programs.
Ensure new services are designed with appropriate clinical governance, quality standards, and outcome measurement strategies.
Contribute clinical expertise to Boulder’s long-term vision of comprehensive substance use disorder care.
Serve as a clinical liaison to Product, Operations, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
Translate clinical priorities into product requirements, workflows, and operational processes.
Provide clinical input on care delivery technology, clinical decision support tools, AI-enabled workflows, and platform enhancements.
Ensure operational and product changes are evaluated through the lens of patient safety, clinician experience, clinical effectiveness, and quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Board Certification in Addiction Medicine with active medical license in good standing.
Minimum 5 years of clinical experience caring for patients with substance use disorders.
Demonstrated experience leading clinicians, clinical programs, or multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
Experience building or scaling clinical programs, quality initiatives, care delivery models, or healthcare teams in a growing organization.
Experience developing and implementing clinical protocols, workflows, and evidence-based standards across multiple clinicians or sites.
Demonstrated success leading change and driving adoption of new clinical practices or operational processes.
Experience using data and quality metrics to identify opportunities and improve clinical performance.
Exceptional communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
Ability to influence across functions and lead through partnership in complex organizations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and short-term disability benefits designed to take care of our employees and their families
Mental Health Services via insurance coverage, including Talkspace and EAP for continuous care
Supplemental mental health services through Talkspace for care needed following tough patient visits
4 weeks of vacation accrued per calendar year with a tenured increase to 5 weeks at 2 years of employment
Sick leave accrued at 1 hr for every 30 hrs paid
9 Paid Holidays per year
12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child (after 6 months of employment)
401(k) retirement savings
Remote friendly with hardware provided to complete your work duties

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Hard Skills & Tools

Clinical Protocol DevelopmentEvidence-Based Practice GuidelinesQuality Assurance ActivitiesChart Review ProcessesClinical AuditsClinical Workflow ImplementationCare Delivery Model DesignClinical Governance StandardsOutcome Measurement StrategiesSubstance Use Disorder Care

Soft Skills

Exceptional Communication SkillsCoaching And MentoringRelationship-Building SkillsInfluencing Across FunctionsLeadership Through Partnership

Certifications

Board Certification In Addiction MedicineActive Medical License