Founding Partner Veterinarian -RiNo

Your Impact as a Founding DVM Partner

This is more than a leadership role; it's an opportunity to build and lead a practice with the full backing of an established network. As the Founding Partner & Lead Veterinarian, you will be the cornerstone of the hospital, responsible for establishing a gold-standard medical culture, mentoring your team, and driving the business's success as a true owner. You'll have the rare opportunity to build a hospital where demand for convenient, high-quality veterinary care including urgent care with extended hours is backed by a dense, high-income, pet-forward community in the heart of the River North Arts District

• Build a Thriving Practice Culture: You will be the architect of a client-first, collaborative culture, setting the tone for medical excellence and teamwork from day one. In a community defined by highly educated professionals and devoted pet owners, your standard of care will set Livewell Denver apart from day one.
• Lead and Mentor Your Medical Team: Recruit, onboard, and develop a high-performing team of veterinarians and support staff building a hospital culture that attracts top talent and delivers outstanding urgent care to pet owners across Denver and the neighborhoods surrounding the Colorado Boulevard corridor, including a team that covers extended hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Drive Medical and Surgical Excellence: Establish the hospital's standard of care, ensuring every patient receives exceptional medicine from urgent case workups and in-house diagnostics to surgery while mentoring your team in general surgery, dentistry, and evidence-based clinical decision-making. You'll build a reputation as the trusted veterinary destination for pets across greater Denver.
• Lead Urgent Care Medicine and Surgery: As a full-service urgent care hospital, Livewell Denver's veterinarians work up cases and perform surgery on site. You'll set the standards for urgent case triage, diagnostics, and surgical care, and help build the extended-hours schedule for evenings, weekends, and holidays that keep the hospital there for pets when they need it most.
• Partner in Business Ownership: Work directly with your Hospital Manager to manage the hospital's financial performance, making strategic decisions that drive top-line revenue growth and position the hospital as a long-term community resource.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree and a license in good standing practice in Colorado.
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience as a veterinarian in a clinical setting.
• A strong foundation in general medicine, surgery, and dentistry.
• A compassionate and collaborative leadership style with the ability to mentor and develop associate veterinarians and support staff.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and a strong understanding of what it takes to run a successful practice.
• Previous formal leadership or management experience is a significant plus.
• Flexibility to work on a schedule that includes evenings, weekends, and holidays in support of the hospital's extended hours.

Opportunity Highlights

• Cash incentives tied to hospital growth (top-line revenue)
• Personal production paid monthly

• Leadership development & mentorship
• Equity options

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Driving the award-winning culture are the WAG values – Work Together, Amaze, and Grow. Mission Pet Health is veterinarian-led, people-focused, and on a mission to be the best place to work in veterinary medicine.