Recruiting since 2009·500+ leadership hires·Engaged · Executive · Contingent · Staffing · Embedded Recruiting
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Telehealth.

Virtual care operators, asynchronous-care platforms, and hybrid clinical models. Recruiters who understand the licensure realities and the operating model differences.

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Segment
Virtual care · async · hybrid · DTC
Roles
CMO · COO · VP Clinical Ops
Engagement
Engaged or contingent
Geography
Multi-state · nationwide
The thesis

Telehealth leadership lives across state lines.

Telehealth and virtual-care operators run a fundamentally different operating model from brick-and-mortar healthcare: multi-state licensure, asynchronous workflows, DTC funnel economics, and a clinical workforce that is often remote and 1099-based. Senior leadership candidates need experience that translates.

Engaged search funds the recruiter time required to find candidates who have actually operated inside this model. The deposit covers the targeted, credible outreach the search needs.

We work virtual-care operators (DTC and B2B), asynchronous-care platforms, hybrid clinical models, and pure telehealth subspecialties (mental health, primary care, men's/women's health, dermatology, GLP-1 specialty).

1:1 Executive Search Standards

Why Platforms Choose Engaged Search

Passive Talent Outreach: Mapping active candidates currently in seat at peer organizations.
Credential Verification: Direct standing & license verification prior to shortlist presentation.
Cultural & Quality Read: Vetting leadership bar, caseload standards, and retention fit.
Replacement Guarantee: Full written replacement guarantee on every placed executive, scoped to the engagement.
Roles we cover

Where the search lives.

Senior leadership and niche-headhunter roles. The recruiter assigned to your search has spent a decade in this segment.

Practice Sector

CLINICAL LEADERSHIP

Chief Medical Officers
Medical Directors
VP Clinical Operations
Heads of Clinical Quality
Practice Sector

OPERATIONS LEADERSHIP

COOs
VP Operations
Heads of Patient Operations
Directors of Workforce Management
Practice Sector

GROWTH & COMMERCIAL

Chief Growth Officers
VP Marketing
Directors of Patient Acquisition
Heads of B2B Sales
Practice Sector

PRODUCT & ENGINEERING

CTOs
VP Engineering
VP Product
Heads of AI & Automation

Telehealth, specifically.

The questions hiring operators send in the first call.

What kinds of telehealth roles do you recruit for?

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Clinical leadership (CMO, Medical Director, VP Clinical Ops), operations leadership (COO, VP Ops, Head of Patient Ops, Directors of Workforce Management), commercial (CGO, VP Marketing, Head of B2B Sales), and product/engineering (CTO, VP Engineering, VP Product). We work both DTC and B2B telehealth operators.

Do you understand the multi-state licensure operating model?

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Yes. The recruiter assigned to your search has placed leadership inside virtual-care operators that run multi-state, multi-licensure models. That fluency matters when scoping candidate fit.

Are telehealth searches typically engaged or contingent?

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Senior leadership searches are typically engaged. Director-level and below run engaged or contingent depending on urgency and candidate-pool depth.

Do you place individual-contributor clinicians?

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Generally no for engaged search. Volume clinical hiring (RNs, NPs, MDs, therapists) is a fit for our staffing-solutions track.

Do you cover the entire United States?

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Yes. Telehealth is fundamentally nationwide; the recruiter assigned has experience working across geographies and licensure footprints.

So now what?

Three paths from here.

01

You're hiring a CMO or VP Clinical Operations across multiple states.

Engaged search fits, the candidate pool is small, multi-state-licensure-credentialed, and tightly networked across virtual-care companies.

Start the scoping call →
02

You're scoping the CMO role for a virtual-first primary care platform.

Read the CMO hiring guide. The framework applies, with two adjustments: licensure footprint replaces medical-staff scale, and asynchronous-care leadership replaces traditional medical-staff governance.

Read the CMO hiring guide →
03

You're benchmarking telehealth-clinical comp.

Telehealth CMO comp clears below traditional health-system CMO comp but above health-tech-only CMO comp. Send us the role and stage; we come back with a calibrated read.

Email the read request →
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Tell us the model, the licensure footprint, the role.

We place telehealth operations, clinical quality, and product leaders who understand multi-state licensing, HIPAA compliance, and virtual care platforms. We deliver verified shortlists in 30 days.