[Hiring] Founding Head of Partnerships @Elevare Health

Role Description

We are looking for a Founding Head of Partnerships to build and own the function that makes Elevare the standard maternal care program for health plans and self-insured employers.

• Work directly with our CEO, with a front-row seat to building a venture-scale company.
• Own partnerships zero-to-one: the pipeline, the playbook, the deal structures, and eventually the team underneath you.
• Turn first conversations into signed pilots, and pilots into commercial contracts.

This is built for someone recently post-MBA who has either founded something or plans to within the next couple of years, and who wants to own a function before they do.

If you want a structured BD seat at a mature company with a finished playbook, this is not it.

Qualifications

• Recently post-MBA or equivalent, with a founder's mindset.
• 4-7 years in enterprise GTM, partnerships, business development, or strategy, ideally touching healthcare, payers, employers, or benefits.
• Comfortable structuring deals with sophisticated buyers: benefits leaders, payer medical directors, and health system executives.
• Strong commercial instincts.
• A credible communicator who can hold a clinical conversation and an economic one in the same meeting.
• Energized by ground-floor building and comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and building the process while running it.
• Healthcare, payer, or employer-benefits experience is a strong plus but not required.

Requirements

• Build and own the partnership pipeline across self-insured employers, health plans, and health systems, from first conversation to signed agreement.
• Turn pilots into commercial contracts, structuring scope, pricing, success metrics, and value-based terms with benefits teams, procurement, and clinical leadership.
• Own executive relationships across Chief Health Officers, benefits leaders, and payer medical directors, and make Elevare the easy yes.
• Position Elevare as the orchestration layer that activates a buyer's existing investments, not another point vendor in a crowded stack.
• Build the partnerships function from scratch: process, materials, CRM hygiene, and the first hires under you.
• Partner with clinical and product so that what we sell is what we can deliver, with clinical integration scoped up front, never improvised.
• Represent Elevare in design partnerships, accelerators, and across the maternal benefits ecosystem.
• Feed market signal back into product priorities and GTM strategy.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: Depending on experience.
• Equity: Meaningful founding-team equity.
• Health benefits: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Incredible learning working directly with the founder and founding team.
• A mission-driven team building something that matters.

Why This Role Is Special

• This is a founding seat at an early company with a real wedge into a large, fast-moving market and the relationships to scale fast.
• Founding team role: You will be one of our first key hires and you will own a function from day one.
• Real ownership: You will define how Elevare goes to market and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founder to learn directly from experienced operators.
• Uncapped upside: Founding-team equity to participate as we grow.
• Massive impact: Your deals directly determine how many mothers Elevare reaches.
• Meaningful mission: Help bring continuous, guideline-based maternal care to the women and communities the system leaves behind.