Chief Medical/Clinical Officer (Fractional)
Siftwell AnalyticsAbout Us:
Siftwell Analytics is a fast-growing company that combines healthcare operator expertise and artificial intelligence to equip community health plans with better insights to drive earlier and more precise health interventions for members. Siftwell was founded with a fundamental commitment to address the unique challenges faced by community health organizations, beginning with Medicaid, Marketplace, and Medicare plans, who are entrusted with the care of our most vulnerable and complex populations.
At Siftwell, we are committed to providing a mutually respectful work environment. We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to our success. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented professionals from a diverse candidate pool, and we work to enable a culture in which all talented individuals can develop, have fun, and thrive.
About the Role
As a Fractional Chief Medical Officer or Chief Clinical Officer, you will serve as a senior clinical advisor to Siftwell Analytics, helping ensure the company’s analytics-driven insights are clinically credible, operationally realistic, and trusted by healthcare customers.
Reporting to the CEO and working closely with Product and Customer Success teams, you will translate population health and care management insights into practical clinical context that supports customer understanding, adoption, and confidence in Siftwell’s platform. You will act as a clinically-fluent thought partner, shaping how insights are framed, discussed, and applied within real-world care delivery and managed care operations.
This role operates in a purely advisory and enablement capacity. You will not provide clinical decision-making, direct patient care, or regulated medical services. Instead, you will support internal teams and, on a limited basis, customer-facing discussions by grounding analytics outputs in established clinical workflows, care management practices, and operational constraints.
When appropriate, you may be positioned externally as a Siftwell Clinical Advisor, reinforcing clinical credibility while customers retain full ownership of all clinical and operational decisions.
This role is ideal for a senior physician or clinical executive with deep experience in care management, population health, or payor-provider operations who enjoys working at inflection points and influencing impact without owning day-to-day execution.
Terms of Engagement
Provide up to approximately ten (10) hours per month of advisory support during the initial six-month engagement term.
Allocate time flexibly across internal preparation, customer-facing sessions (as needed), and follow-up discussions.
Monthly hours may flex based on active customer needs and Siftwell requirements.
Operate with short planning horizons (often one week or less), coordinating preparation and scheduling collaboratively.
Work exclusively with summary-level, de-identified information.
Operate downstream of Siftwell's platform outputs, focusing on interpretation and operational context rather than analytic development or validation.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with Siftwell in an iterative, consultative manner that emphasizes preparation, discussion, and applied guidance rather than formal deliverables.
Support work driven by active customer use cases and internal priorities.
Participate in internal preparation sessions to review upcoming customer discussions, cohort outputs, and presentation materials.
Lead focused working sessions to interpret analytics outputs from a clinical and care management operations perspective.
Participate selectively in customer meetings to support interpretation, intervention discussion, and workflow alignment.
Conduct follow-up discussions to refine messaging, approach, and next steps.
Interpret Siftwell-generated cohorts and population insights in clinically meaningful, non-prescriptive terms.
Help identify likely clinical and operational drivers of risk or utilization.
Help differentiate impactable populations from maintenance or monitoring populations.
Advise on appropriate types of interventions and escalation pathways.
Discuss common engagement barriers and operational considerations.
Help customers assess staffing models, ratios, and existing programs in context.
Guide structured discussions using Siftwell’s data, Pegasus platform outputs, and clinical domain expertise.
Help surface tradeoffs and considerations without directing clinical decisions.
Reinforce that customers retain final authority over all clinical and operational actions.
Review slides, summaries, and materials ahead of key customer sessions.
Provide contextual guidance to Siftwell teams to improve clinical fluency over time.
Offer feedback to Siftwell’s Product team on how customer clinical input may inform future product enhancements.
Ideal Background & Experience
Active clinical licensure (e.g., MD, RN or equivalent).
Deep managed care experience, with direct exposure to payer environments such as Medicare, Medicaid, or commercial health plans.
Senior clinical executive experience at the health plan or enterprise level, serving in a Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer or similar clinical executive role with organization-wide accountability (not state- or region-limited roles).
Physician or clinical executive background, with demonstrated leadership of corporate clinical initiatives across multiple functions or programs.
Strong quality and performance measurement experience, including hands-on familiarity with HEDIS and related quality, utilization, or outcomes measures used in managed care environments.
Experience translating quality and population health metrics into operational programs, care management strategies, and executive-level decision support.
Application Timeline and Details
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: Feb 27th, 2026. Submission does not guarantee selection, and Siftwell reserves the right to modify or close the selection process at any time.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All applications will be retained for future consideration.
Disclosures
Benefits Overview
At Siftwell, we hire Humble Killers — talented, mission-driven teammates who value impact, collaboration, and ownership. Our goal is to support that commitment through competitive pay, meaningful equity, and benefits that promote well-being, growth, and flexibility.
Full-time Employment Opportunities include:
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
Short-term disability coverage
401(k) retirement plan with company matching
Unlimited paid time off to rest and recharge
Opportunities for ongoing professional development and learning
Benefits may vary based on location and employment status.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Siftwell celebrates diversity and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with applicable laws, including the California Fair Chance Act.
ADA Accommodation Statement
If you require a reasonable accommodation during a selection process, please let us know through our general contact form or indicate this in your application.
Security Requirements
Adhering to the Company Security and Privacy Policies and the associated security standards
Maintaining the security of the Information assets and resources to which they have been granted access
Ensuring direct reports are aware of and adhere to Company Security and Privacy Policies
Ensuring the security of information and managing risks to assets and resources owned by their functional area
Ensuring that contractors, consultants, partners and other third parties under their sponsorship operate in compliance with Company policy
Monitoring compliance related to business assets owned by their functional area and taking corrective action as necessary