Medical Director

Pets deserve the same standard of medicine in every hospital they enter. This role exists to make that true: you set the clinical bar, coach the doctors who deliver it, and turn quality into outcomes clients can feel and teams can sustain. You will not manage a spreadsheet of policies. You will raise the practice of veterinary medicine across a growing network of animal hospitals.

Performance Objectives

• Publish and maintain evidence-based protocols for wellness, diagnostics, surgery, and emergency stabilization so care is consistent from hospital to hospital.
• Coach associate veterinarians until case management, surgical judgment, and client communication meet defined standards within their first year.
• Run a peer-review and complication process that identifies preventable harm and closes each gap with a documented practice change.
• Partner with hospital leaders to match doctor capacity to demand without trading away appointment time, surgical quality, or technician support.
• Build mentorship and continuing education that increase in-house case complexity, clinical confidence, and doctor retention.
• Align pharmacy, laboratory, anesthesia, and referral pathways so preventive care and treatment follow one medical standard.
• Report clinical quality indicators to executive leadership each cycle and act on the gaps those numbers reveal.

Environment & Resources

You report to senior veterinary leadership and work beside hospital managers who own operations, staffing, and the client experience. You influence a distributed team of veterinarians, technicians, and hospital medical leads. You will have practice-management and medical-record systems, a protocol library, a continuing-education budget, and the authority to set clinical standards. The setting is a growth-stage, multi-hospital veterinary group focused on medicine, surgery, wellness, and preventive care.

Essential Qualifications

• DVM or VMD with license eligibility; board certification or equivalent advanced clinical leadership strongly preferred.
• A record of leading veterinarians in a multi-doctor or multi-site practice, with outcomes you can describe.
• Experience writing medical protocols that change how cases are handled, not just how they are documented.
• Skill coaching through case review, difficult clinical conversations, and client-experience failures.
• Working fluency with veterinary practice-management and medical-record systems and with quality metrics.

Why This Role

• Your clinical judgment scales beyond one exam room to an entire hospital network.
• You own the medical standard; operators own the business, so you are not asked to be both.
• Medicine, surgery, and preventive care are the product—not a side effect of volume.
• Medical leadership is a defined path, with doctors and technicians who want a higher standard.

Apply

If you want to raise the standard of care for every pet who walks through the door, apply. Tell us the first clinical standard you would set—and how you would know it worked.