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ELLKAY's solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.\n\nToday, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today's data-rich world.\n\nELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.\n\nJob Description\n\nThe Director of Operations serves as a force multiplier who ensures that the technology organization executes with clarity, alignment, and urgency. Acting as Chief of Staff, this leader drives cross-functional workstreams, translates the CTO's strategic priorities into actionable plans, and holds the organization accountable to outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor and organizational leader role for someone with exceptional operational acumen, executive presence, and a systems-thinking mindset.\n\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities\n\nStrategic Planning & Prioritization: Partner with the CTO to define quarterly and annual priorities; translate strategy into roadmaps and OKRs that the technology organization can execute against.\nWorkstream & Portfolio Oversight: Maintain a master view of all technology workstreams; identify bottlenecks, dependencies, and risks; escalate proactively and remove blockers.\nOperating Cadence: Design and lead the CTO's operating rhythm — weekly leadership team meetings, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning cycles, and all-hands meetings.\nCross-Functional Execution: Own cross-functional initiatives that span engineering, product, data, security, and business teams on behalf of the CTO.\nExecutive Communications: Prepare executive-level communications including board 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