Director, Patient Engagement & Retention

Cadence is the clinical AI company automating the treatment of chronic disease. Its Clinical Intelligence takes on the routine, high-volume work of chronic care – monitoring patients, surfacing risks, and coordinating action – so clinicians can focus on the decisions that require them. Grounded in partnerships with more than 20 leading health systems, deep EMR integrations, dedicated medical group, and experience serving a population of more than 100,000 patients, the system learns from real-world care delivery, improving as it scales. Cadence has been recognized by TIME as one of the Top 100 HealthTech Companies and by LinkedIn as a Top Startup (#4, 2025).

The Role

We're hiring a Director, Patient Engagement & Retention to own how Cadence diagnoses, prevents, and reverses patient disengagement across our remote care programs. You'll build the engine and cross-functional workflows that identify why patients fall out of care and translate those drivers into prioritized, measurable interventions. The work spans the full patient lifecycle, from activation through ongoing chronic disease management, and moves pilots into repeatable systems.

What You'll Do

• Own patient retention, adherence, and engagement outcomes across Cadence's remote care programs.
• Diagnose the drivers of disengagement across the patient lifecycle, from enrollment and activation through ongoing chronic disease management, and translate that diagnosis into a prioritized roadmap of interventions.
• Build and scale engagement systems and cross-functional workflows, partnering with Product, Data, and Engineering to move zero-to-one pilots into repeatable, automated operating models.
• Design and run structured experiments across outreach channels, segmentation, and engagement triggers, defining hypotheses, holdouts, and success metrics that distinguish real signal from noise.
• Prioritize engagement investments using financial and clinical framing, stratifying patients by clinical measure and disengagement risk to focus effort where it moves retention and cost of care most.
• Strengthen the engagement stack through automation and AI-supported prioritization and personalization, designing workflows that route the highest-risk patients efficiently and preserve human touch where it matters.
• Define performance governance for engagement programs, including metrics, reporting cadences, and post-launch measurement, and drive continuous improvement against retention and adherence targets.

What You Need

• 8-10+ years in product operations, growth operations, lifecycle or engagement operations, product marketing, program management, or a related cross-functional role.
• Track record owning or directly influencing lifecycle metrics such as retention, engagement, activation, adherence, churn, or utilization, with measurable business impact.
• Proven ability to build programs, workflows, or engagement systems and scale them into repeatable cross-functional operating models.
• Strong cross-functional leadership through influence across Product, Operations, Clinical, Data, Engineering, or Marketing, including stakeholder alignment, dependency management, launch planning, and tradeoff decisions.
• Strong analytical and experimentation background, including defining hypotheses, success metrics, holdouts, and ROI, and translating data into prioritized roadmaps and workflow improvements.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and the ability to evaluate where AI accelerates the build versus where human judgment is required.

Compensation

Our job titles may span more than one career level. Expected on-target earnings (OTE) for this role typically range between $180,000 - $220,000, depending on experience, skills, seniority, and business needs. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity as part of the total compensation package.. Actual compensation may vary by location.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay & equity*
• Fully remote
• Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental & vision
• Paid time off
• 401k plan + matching
• Paid parental leave
• Home office stipend

*benefit offerings may vary depending on job profile, job level and worker type

Cadence is committed to equal opportunity and fairness regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, nation of origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, country of citizenship, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, family status, family care status, military or veteran status or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws. 

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