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Senior Manager, Decision Intelligence

Stanford Health Care

Palo Alto, CA · HybridFull-time$86.5–114.61/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$86.5–114.61/hr
Location
Palo Alto, CAHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Senior Manager leads delivery of IT systems and services for hospital applications, combining leadership with broad technical expertise. The role oversees staffing and performance, advises executives on application portfolios, and provides strategic and operational leadership for clinical and non-clinical systems. It also manages service delivery, lifecycle planning, budgets, and staff while supporting healthcare and business objectives.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Healthcare IT ManagementIT Program ManagementProject ManagementNetwork OperationsDatabase ManagementSoftware ApplicationsSystems IntegrationProduction OperationsQuality AssuranceSystems ManagementFiscal ManagementPersonnel ManagementContract NegotiationVendor ManagementProcess ImprovementRegulatory ComplianceWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationPresentation SkillsInterpersonal SkillsCustomer OrientationDecision-MakingConsensus BuildingCoachingMentoringStaff SupervisionHealthcare Operations

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree7+ Years Related Experience4 Years Relevant Applications Experience3 Years IT Program ManagementHealthcare Provider Management Experience

Full job description

Hybrid

1830 Embarcadero - PALO ALTO

Full time

R2660756

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A Brief Overview

The SR MGR-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY is responsible for leading and managing the delivery of IT systems and services for the hospital's information technology applications. The position combines leadership experience with deep and wide technical expertise across a variety of technologies. The Senior Manager is responsible for appropriate staffing, staff management, performance management and overall scheduling. This is a highly visible leadership role that will be in front of client executive leadership to provide progress reports, forecasts, or analysis of various situations regarding the support of a portfolio of clinical and non-clinical applications.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

  • Maintain direct knowledge of current and future capabilities across all in-scope applications portfolio.

  • Advise IT management and relevant steering committees regarding the direction of advanced IT systems and applications.

  • Develop roadmaps and long range plans for all in-scope applications and systems.

  • Maintain strong understanding of technology and its application to achieve clinical and business objectives.

  • Prepare analysis and/or proposals when necessary.

  • Provide strategic and operational leadership for lifecycle management, including selection, implementation, maintenance, upgrade, and enhancement of SHC’s information technology systems and applications.

  • Incorporate best practices to improve existing organizational methods and processes.

  • Work closely with other IT leadership in developing short and long range plans, and reviews these plans with senior IT leadership as well as other organizational management.

  • Guide requirements gathering and solution design activities including the design of workflows as it relates to area of responsibility.

  • Negotiate resolution of conflicting requirements across the agencies and/or departments.

  • Set and measure performance objectives and provide regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team.

  • Hire, evaluate the performance of and implement corrective action, up to and including termination, for assigned staff as necessary. Address individual staff performance problems as needed.

  • Manage delivery and SLAs by guiding incident resolution, problem management, maintenance, and enhancement tickets raised by the end users for the suite of applications in the responsibility area.

  • Develop relevant metrics, measure and publish the performance of the services provided and enable continuous improvement activities in collaboration with peer groups.

  • Ensure both foundation and community physicians have a high level of customer satisfaction for services and products provided.

  • Effectively support and fulfill the vision of SHC for developing these services and capabilities to support growth and outreach business initiatives.

  • Be appropriately trained and advocate the use of Process Excellence methodologies approved within SHC such as Lean.

  • Work closely with all other IT management personnel in identifying, evaluating, and selecting and implementing specific information technology which support the business plans and IT strategies.

  • Define procedures that are compliant with hospital and departmental policies.

  • Assist with the preparation of budget for IT systems and services related to area of responsibility.

  • Keep abreast of new developments, and forecasts future trends in the areas of health care IT management. Maintain a strong understanding of technology and its application to achieve medical and business objectives.

  • Prepare analysis and or proposals for other enterprise departments when necessary. Serve as an internal consultant to other IT management staff, and operations community as needed.

  • Coach, mentor and manage staff to implement, maintain and support all related software, configurations and workflows.

  • Support Director and other associates with marketing efforts and other educational events as assigned.

  • Support research and publish “white papers” and “decision point documents” for use in the department, user communities, Care Delivery Council, and Executive IT Steering Committee as assigned.

  • Collaborate with other managers and leads to develop an effective on-call rotation schedule across various teams for 24/7 support.

  • Provide ongoing troubleshooting, support, and maintenance of applications; including 24/7 on call coverage as required.

Education Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university. Required

Experience Qualifications

  • 7 or more years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.

  • Prefer 4 years of experience with relevant applications.

  • 3 years of experience planning and managing IT programs including budgeting, resource, management, and delivery development.

  • Previous managerial experience in a healthcare provider organization is required

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Healthcare background, experience and performance that promotes a high level of credibility with clinical professionals.

  • Knowledge and understanding of goals and the interdependencies of functional departments and groups (in health care industry) and the ability to lead large-scale complex IT projects in addressing overall business needs.

  • Knowledge and ability to direct a staff in integrating information technology services with work requirements and deliverables.

  • Knowledge of informational technology disciplines; eg, network operations, databases, software applications and interfaces, production operations, quality assurance and systems management.

  • Knowledge of principles and practices of organization, administration, fiscal and personnel management.

  • Knowledge of project management process and systems

  • Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation and interpersonal skills focused on motivation and positive attitude. Highly self-motivated, directed and change oriented. Very strong customer orientation.

  • Ability to demonstrate objectivity, sensitivity, and a balanced perspective regarding employee concerns and organizational issues.

  • Ability to evaluate and negotiate contracts and manage vendor service agreements.

  • Ability to manage complex projects and resources (people, costs, and time) across multiple sub-teams.

  • Ability to handle confrontation with appropriate grace, professionalism, cordiality, and firmness, and manage/resolve disputes appropriately.

  • Ability to communicate concepts in elegant, concise, eloquent form to management and to cross-functional departments or teams verbally, in writing, and through pictures or diagrams when appropriate

  • Ability to apply judgment and make informed decisions

  • Ability to develop programs and lead process improvement projects.

  • Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus with other departments and external vendors.

  • Ability to strategize, plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.

  • Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate work results.

  • Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirement related to the functional area.

  • Knowledge of current issues and trends in health care and clinical operations in a health care system.

  • Knowledge of new technologies (in specific field) and maintain and stay abreast of updates and changes.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

  • Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

  • Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

  • Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $86.50 - $114.61 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care.

Learn about our awards (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/awards.html) and significant events (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/our-history.html) .

How this job compares

Set against the 735 open Healthcare IT jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$86.5–114.61/hr
  • US median$27–64/hr112 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $100.56/hr, is 126% above the US median midpoint ($45/hr) — in the top quarter of Healthcare IT hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 42 open Healthcare IT jobs in California and 735 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Healthcare IT postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 540 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 170 of the 735 open Healthcare IT jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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