Program Director, Federal
Remote · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About Abridge
- Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients.
- Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.
- We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh.
- Abridge is embedded in 250+ health systems and expanding rapidly across the federal healthcare ecosystem. The Federal program is one of the most consequential and complex programs in the company, spanning clinical deployment, enterprise IT, government contracting, product integration, and policy. This role owns the success of the program at large.
- The Program Director is the operational center of gravity for the federal program. You are responsible for the overall health and forward momentum of key federal partnerships — and for ensuring that every team touching the program is rowing in the same direction. At the heart of this role is a genuine commitment to the mission: improving the lives of clinicians and the patients they serve. That mission is not a backdrop; it is the lens through which strategy is set, trade-offs are made, and progress is measured.
- You hold the picture across commercial, product, clinical, engineering, legal, and government affairs, and are accountable for driving alignment, surfacing risk, and ensuring the right people are working on the right things at the right time. You translate strategy into execution, create clarity where there is ambiguity, and serve as the connective tissue that keeps a complex, multi-stakeholder program moving with purpose.
About the role
- The Program Director, Federal serves as the operational center of gravity for Abridge's federal program, overseeing its health and forward momentum.
- This role acts as the connective tissue across product, clinical, commercial, engineering, legal, and government affairs to drive alignment and execution.
- The position is responsible for managing complex, multi-stakeholder partnerships and ensuring the program's strategy is translated into effective, mission-driven outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Ensure cross-functional teams are aligned on strategy, goals, and unified direction.
- Design and run the operating cadence, including weekly syncs, dependency tracking, and quarterly planning.
- Maintain a single source of truth regarding strategy, delivery status, and program outcomes.
- Drive progress by establishing clear ownership and holding internal teams accountable for milestones.
- Report program health, risks, and strategic progress to executive leadership.
- Build and maintain relationships with key federal stakeholders and clinical leadership.
- Partner with the federal commercial team on account strategy and renewal.
- Lead relationships with teaming partners to ensure effective service delivery.
- Build program management tooling, templates, BI dashboards, and playbooks.
- Identify and resolve misalignment or resource gaps across workstreams.
Requirements
- 8+ years in program or operations leadership.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
- Strong understanding of the healthcare ecosystem and clinician challenges.
- Exceptional communication skills for diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Technical aptitude with a quick learning ability for complex software solutions.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills with a proactive, results-oriented approach.
- Comfort with ambiguity and managing moving parts.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Healthcare experience
- Federal experience
Benefits
- 14 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Family forming benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Personal device allowance
- Lifestyle wallet for fitness, professional development, and coworking
- Mental health support
Skills
- Program Management
- Operations Leadership
- Business Intelligence
- Dependency Tracking
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Coordination
