Protege · 2 months ago
Strategic Partnerships Lead (Healthcare)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
7+ years expProtege is building a platform to solve the unmet need in AI by facilitating the secure and efficient exchange of training data. The Strategic Partnerships Lead (Healthcare) will be responsible for building and managing partnerships with healthcare organizations and data aggregators to support Protege's healthcare AI products.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data Management
Responsibilities
Identify and prioritize data partners across EHR, imaging, claims, genomics, consumer health data, and beyond
Build a balanced data supply portfolio — filling gaps in modalities, diversity, and scale
Map Protege’s data strategy to the needs of healthcare AI builders and model developers
Own the full partnership lifecycle: prospecting, outreach, structuring, and closing
Negotiate agreements covering data access, licensing, and privacy compliance
Partner with Legal and Compliance to ensure every agreement aligns with HIPAA, de-identification, and expert determination standards
Collaborate closely with the CSO and Head of Product to ensure partnerships support near-term delivery needs and long-term platform strategy
Translate scientific or technical requirements into actionable partnership structures
Bring market intelligence back into product and platform planning
Develop scalable playbooks for evaluating and onboarding data partners
Collaborate with Product Success and Platform to ensure smooth handoff and ingestion
Track partner performance and proactively manage renewals and expansions
Build and maintain relationships with senior executives at health systems, data networks, and AI developers
Represent Protege at healthcare and AI conferences, positioning the company as the premier enabler of responsible AI data collaboration
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in healthcare data partnerships, business development, or strategy
Deep understanding of healthcare data modalities (EHR, imaging, claims, genomic, device, or real-world data)
Comfortable discussing AI training data requirements and data readiness with technical teams
Demonstrated success sourcing, structuring, and closing complex partnerships
Skilled in cross-functional influence — you can work with scientists, engineers, and lawyers without losing momentum
Strategic thinker who's also operationally disciplined; can build process while closing deals
Pragmatic and credible — capable of pushing back on perfection in favor of scalability
Preferred
Advanced technical or scientific background (MS, PhD, or equivalent experience)
Experience working in or with healthcare data aggregators, tokenization networks, or AI data providers
Familiarity with privacy-preserving data linkage and de-identification workflows
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Equity
Benefits package
Company
Protege
Protege is the AI training data platform enabling seamless and compliant data exchange.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzFootworkCRV
2026-01-07Series A· $30M
2025-08-13Series A· $25M
2024-09-10Seed· $10M
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