Director Medical Coding

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Medical Coding function, ensuring top-tier accuracy, compliance, and audit quality.
• Drive automation initiatives in partnership with product and engineering to enhance coding efficiency and reliability.
• Provide domain expertise to improve algorithms, training datasets, and clinical decision logic.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of coders and auditors, fostering a culture of ownership and excellence.
• Define and implement quality metrics and operational SLAs for coding accuracy and turnaround.
• Collaborate with business and product leaders to align delivery with company goals and client expectations.
• Serve as the voice of clinical coding in strategic and product-level discussions.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of overall experience with 5+ years in medical coding and auditing (preferably multi-specialty or inpatient/outpatient coding).
• Certified coder (CPC, CCS, or equivalent).
• Proven experience leading large coding or auditing teams, ideally within a tech-enabled or scaling environment.
• Strong understanding of US healthcare coding standards, compliance, and quality frameworks.
• Tech-comfortable mindset, able to work closely with product and data teams to refine automation logic.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills