Cartwheel · 1 day ago
Vice President, Operations
Cartwheel is a leading mental health partner for K12 schools, focused on improving student mental health outcomes. As the Vice President of Operations, you will oversee operations across mature markets, manage performance metrics, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance service delivery.
Health CareMental HealthmHealthTherapeuticsWellness
Responsibilities
Being the P&L owner for all of Cartwheel's mature markets , accountable for achieving and reporting on revenue, margin and quality targets by state
Managing and ensuring strong performance across Operations team (currently 35 FTEs across Care Ops, Health Plan Ops, and Revenue Cycle Management)
Being accountable for key operational metrics, including:
Time to care: ensuring families referred to Cartwheel access services quickly
Conversion to care: ensuring families referred to Cartwheel engage in services
Care revenue: grow total revenue from care delivery
Care margin: increase insurance revenue and lower cost per session
Collections: achieve gross and net revenue collections targets
Payer contracting and credentialing: ensure clinicians are enrolled with payers quickly, accurately, and efficiently
Team engagement: maintain strong team engagement and performance
Serving as a member of Cartwheel's Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
Partnering cross-functionally:
With our Clinical, People, and Finance leaders to achieve high quality, scalable, efficient service delivery
With our R&D/Technology teams to improve our product, systems and tools, including continuing deployment of AI agents across Operations
With our go-to-market teams, including Sales, Success, Marketing, and Government Affairs, to ensure that our operations support new sales and customer retention goals
Qualification
Required
10+ years healthcare operations experience in fast-paced environments, with venture-backed startup experience at growth stages strongly preferred
Experience with meaningful P&L ownership
Experience partnering with clinical teams and building multi-state clinical operations
Experience managing or working closely with Revenue Cycle Management teams
Proven experience managing large and dynamic teams, including managing people managers
Highly analytical, structured thinker with strong written and verbal communication skills
Data-driven operator with strong technical skills. Highly proficient at defining metrics and getting the data you need to understand performance
Passionate about leveraging AI and automation to improve efficiency and quality of healthcare services
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits
Meaningful equity ownership stake in Cartwheel
Generous PPO medical, vision, dental and ortho coverage
Unlimited/flexible PTO plus federal holidays
Paid parental leave
401K with employer match
Company
Cartwheel
Cartwheel offers mental health support to students in order to help schools regain balance in the midst of the student mental health crisis.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$55.17MKey Investors
Menlo Ventures
2025-08-18Series B· $35.17M
2023-09-26Series A· $20M
Recent News
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2025-12-08
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