Director Interdisciplinary Science Jobs in California

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression. We design and operate high-acuity, in-person clinics across the United States.

Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems.

Leading health systems collaborate with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health. Our investors include health systems such as Cedars-Sinai and CommonSpirit Health, organizations that evaluated our model clinically and chose to back it.

Why We Are Different

Many clinicians who join Amae have worked in PHPs, IOPs, inpatient psychiatry, or community mental health. They understand the limitations of the traditional system. Amae was built to change that—for patients and for clinicians.

• Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side-by-side and share responsibility for the same patients.
• Practice at the top of your license. Manageable caseloads, meaningful clinical depth, and purpose-built tools designed for this population.
• Continuous learning. Through our collaboration with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence-based SMI care.
• Advancing the field. Our clinicians contribute to new outcomes frameworks and research shaping the future of severe mental illness care.
• A model built for sustainability. Team-based care, thoughtful caseloads, and strong infrastructure make this work meaningful—and sustainable over time.

The Role

We are hiring a Clinic Director to lead the care delivery teams, programs, and systems across our Pasadena and San Fernando Valley clinics (opening soon). Reporting to the General Manager - West Region, you will partner with operational leaders to steer an interdisciplinary care team that includes psychiatrists, therapists, dietitians, health coaches, and member support specialists.

This role requires regular travel between the Pasadena and San Fernando Valley clinic locations.

What You Will Do

• Guide and support teams in day-to-day management with an eye toward scaling without compromising quality; craft strategic plans to evolve current procedures
• Actively oversee admissions and directly manage the intake process, assisting in the development of individualized treatment plans and level-of-care transitions
• Work hand-in-hand with the CMO, Medical Directors, and Clinical Operations Team to create, refine, and implement innovative processes
• Lead and supervise an interdisciplinary team; conduct daily care coordination meetings to oversee treatment plans
• Directly engage in the care of complex patients, offering support and intervention as needed
• Devise and implement strategic initiatives in partnership with clinical and operational stakeholders to elevate quality of care and cost-efficiency
• Proactively identify and address issues and document lessons for future processes

What You'll Have

• Unrestricted registered license as a Psychologist, LCSW, LMFT, or LPC in the state of California
• Prior experience working with SMI, other mental health challenges, and addiction; experience creating personalized treatment plans
• Holistic perspective on health and ability to work effectively in various settings with diverse populations
• Excellent communication skills and comfort in one-on-one or group settings
• Strong leadership, coaching, and negotiation capacity
• Well-organized approach with experience in planning and designing events and activities
• Basic computer proficiency
• Familiarity with the medical, mental health, and social service systems in the Bay Area preferred

What We're Building

As a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.

• A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
• A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
• A collaboration model with the country's leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

Compensation & Benefits

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Base salary range for this role is $125,000- $145,000. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. We'll share specifics during the interview process.

If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we'd like to talk.