Program Manager at Stanford Health Care

Program Manager

Ready to make a meaningful impact? Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford Health Care's mission is to heal humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time. We are seeking detail-oriented, proactive, and tech-savvy individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment to join our team. If you're good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you're the best at what you do, come work at Stanford Health Care.

Lead high-impact programs that elevate care and operational excellence. Stanford Health Care is seeking a Program Manager to join the Activations & Operational Integration (AOI) team, leading complex, cross-functional programs that drive operational readiness, quality improvement, and standardized practices across clinical and administrative environments.

The AOI team delivers integrated program and project management across space activations, hospital tours, and facilities governance. Through standard work, proactive risk management, and strong cross-functional partnership, AOI ensures seamless alignment between facility capabilities, workflows, and stakeholder expectations.

The Program Manager leads end-to-end program execution, defining scope, managing performance, and ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory standards. This role partners across clinical, operational, and support service teams to drive adoption, coordinate training, and deliver measurable outcomes. Accountability includes managing program metrics and dashboards, leading change initiatives, and advancing continuous improvement practices.

The ideal candidate brings:

• Experience leading complex programs in healthcare or large operational environments
• Strength in performance tracking, process improvement (A3 or similar), and program execution
• Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders
• Knowledge of compliance, quality, and regulatory standards
• Strong communication, analytical, and leadership skills with a focus on driving results

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university.

Experience Qualifications

• Two (2) to three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to act as a thought leader and operational expert for assigned areas.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels and in situations requiring instructing, persuading, negotiating, conflict resolution, consulting and advising.
• Demonstrated experience developing effective written communications, reports and summaries.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
• Ability to plan, organize, motivate, mentor, direct and evaluate the work of others.
• Ability to influence others.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and/or negotiate with others to achieve positive results; establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Knowledge of Lean, Just-in-Time (JIT), Six Sigma and/or Agile/Scrum techniques.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Project and Outlook.
• Knowledge of principles of business and management strategic planning, leadership development, and education techniques.

Licenses and Certifications

• PMP - Project Mgmt Professional preferred.

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 $66.52 - $88.14 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.