Strategic Partnerships Associate

Corner Health•Santa Monica, CA

About The Position

Corner Health is rebuilding primary care by helping Nurse Practitioners start and scale independent practices. Its AI-native operating system supports billing, insurance, patient communication, and clinical workflows. The company reports supporting more than 70 provider-owned practices and over 50,000 patient visits across Arizona and Washington. The Strategic Partnerships Associate will help build the Strategic Partnerships function from the ground up. This high-visibility role supports partner strategy, opportunity sourcing, deal execution, and special projects. The associate will help shape how Corner Health’s healthcare solutions reach more patients through employers, payors, and other ecosystem partners, working in a fast-paced environment with high ownership and ambiguity.

Requirements

2–3 years of experience in consulting, finance such as banking, private equity, or venture capital, or at a venture-backed startup.
Regular use of AI tools and enthusiasm for using AI to work faster and increase output.
Strong analytical skills, including financial modeling, data analysis, and developing clear recommendations.
Strong commercial and executive presence, with confidence pitching to senior leaders and building trusted relationships with C-suite executives.
Resourcefulness and a scrappy approach to achieving ambitious goals.
Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership, ambiguity, and rapid iteration.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare experience or a personal connection to the mission of making independent local primary care accessible to more patients.
Demonstrated resourcefulness, such as securing meetings with senior executives, finding creative solutions to difficult problems, or changing the status quo within an organization.

Responsibilities

Support payor, employer, and ecosystem partnership strategy by sizing markets, building financial models, and turning data into recommendations.
Research, identify, and prioritize partnership opportunities, and manage the partner pipeline from initial outreach through signed agreement.
Pitch Corner Health to payors, employers, and ecosystem partners, lead meetings, communicate the company’s story, and build relationships with senior decision-makers.
Prepare negotiation materials, including rate benchmarks, proposals, term sheet comparisons, and partnership structures, and help advance deals to completion.
Coordinate partnership launches, track performance, and surface issues and opportunities to keep active partnerships moving.