Senior IT Strategy and Operations Manager

Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.

Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.

As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.

Reporting to the VP, IT and partnering closely with IT Support, IT System Engineering, and cross-functional leadership, the IT Strategy and Operations Manager will lead IT strategy and operations execution across the organization. This role is highly cross-functional and impact-driven, with an initial focus on establishing operational excellence through data-driven insights, standardized metrics, and scalable operating practices to improve service delivery, communication, project visibility, and overall end-user experience. 

This is a full-time position that is fully remote with the option of being based in our New York City office. Travel is [Insert travel requirement, e.g., not required / required quarterly for team alignment].

• →Deeply analyze existing IT service performance metrics and establish baseline team-level metrics across service delivery, support quality, system reliability, and operational health.
• →Define and implement standardized IT operations metrics (e.g., uptime, ticket resolution, SLA compliance) and dashboards across IT teams to enable consistent measurement and transparency.
• →Partner with IT leadership to ensure metrics are actionable, aligned with business outcomes, and used for the creation and update of OKRs, QBRs, and MBRs to senior leadership.
• →Review and streamline the current IT operating cadence (including change management, incident response, project planning, and post-mortems) to reduce overhead and increase team autonomy.
• →Operationalize consistent rhythms and project management (e.g., quarterly planning, sprint planning, stakeholder meetings, operational reviews) while allowing for team-level flexibility.
• →Assess current IT service management (ITSM) processes, identifying gaps and risks impacting system reliability, support availability, and end-user satisfaction.
• →Partner with Security and cross-functional business units to drive adoption of IT best practices, tooling, and co-created solutions.
• →Identify opportunities for automation across IT support and infrastructure workflows (e.g., provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting) to reduce manual effort and operational toil.
• →Champion continuous improvement initiatives that improve IT staff efficiency, ensure practices scale effectively, and reduce escalations and friction for end-users.

• Standardized IT service metrics, policies, and procedures are adopted, trusted, and consistently reported across all teams.
• Streamlined and consistent IT operational rhythms that enable faster, more predictable service and project completion within target timeframes.
• Measurable improvements in support metrics (e.g., ticket response/resolution times, SLA compliance, and system uptime) resulting from ITSM, change management, and automation enhancements.

• 5+ years of experience in IT operations with a strong background in project management, service management metrics (e.g., SLAs, KPIs, OKRs), and technology execution at scale.
• Proven ability to define metrics, analyze data, and drive meaningful change based on insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across IT, business, and leadership levels.
• A proactive approach to building structure, operating in ambiguity, and establishing scalable practices where they do not yet exist.

• Hands-on experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools, with a strong preference for the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Desk).

The target base salary range for this position is $147,800 - $164,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.