Stepful
Program Director, Surgical Services
Remote, United States · Director · Contract
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About the role
- This is a high-impact, portfolio-level role for someone who is passionate about healthcare education and committed to expanding access to surgical careers for working adults across the country.
- If you're energized by the chance to shape how the next generation of surgical technologists and sterile processing technicians are trained - and to do it at scale - we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Conduct ongoing program evaluation and assessment, using data to surface improvement opportunities and drive continuous improvement across both programs.
- Hire, onboard, and manage a team of full-time staff and a growing contractor/adjunct instructor pool across both programs.
- lead performance calibration to ensure instructional consistency and excellence.
- Coach and develop team members, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and shared ownership of student outcomes.
- Lead client site visits and clinical skills calibration independently, ensuring graduates are practice-ready from day one.
- Partner with Stepful's enterprise team to support program expansion and onboarding of new employer partners.
- Set quality and performance standards; lead performance calibration to ensure instructional consistency and excellence.
- As the Subject Matter Expert, collaborate with internal curriculum teams to continuously review and strengthen content across both programs, keeping it current with industry standards and employer expectations.
- Oversee student progress and performance, including progress monitoring, academic advising, and program completion support.
- Strong cross-functional skills; comfortable working alongside instructors, students, clinical partners, and internal Stepful teams across multiple states.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience teaching surgical technology and/or sterile processing fundamentals, including course delivery, assessment, and student support
Benefits
- Stepful is a workforce platform redefining how America's largest health systems build, train, and retain their talent.
- Since our founding in 2021, Stepful's trained over 32,000 practice-ready healthcare workers.
- Layering onto our successful direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers.
- We're improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare career ladders for those who need them most.
- We have partnerships with half of the top 10 health systems in the US and are in process with many more.
- Meaningful Equity Stake
- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
- FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
- Learning stipend
- Open vacation policy, including:
- Guidance of 15 days PTO annually
Company info
- Our values: We credit much of our success to our exceptional team.
- We are seeking a highly motivated Program Director to lead Stepful's Surgical Services programs - Surgical Technology and Sterile Processing.
- We're looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:
Equal opportunity
- Stepful is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- equal opportunity employer.
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