[Hiring] Strategic Partnerships Associate @Corner Health

Role Description

At Corner Health, we’re building something fundamentally different: a network of hyper-local, independent, in-person primary care practices powered by modern technology. This is a completely new model of care.

As an Associate on the Strategic Partnerships team, you will be a force multiplier across partner strategy, sourcing, execution, and other special projects. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role where you will play a critical role in building the Strategic Partnerships function from the ground up.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love turning strategy into execution, and want to shape how innovative healthcare solutions reach more patients through employers, payors, and other ecosystem partners, this is the role for you.

What you’ll work on

• Partner Strategy & Analysis: Support the development of our payor, employer, and ecosystem partnership strategy - sizing markets, building financial models, and turning data into clear recommendations.
• Sourcing & Pipeline: Research, identify, and prioritize new partnership opportunities, and own the partner pipeline from first outreach through a signed agreement.
• Commercial Meetings: Pitch Corner Health to payors, employers, and ecosystem partners - leading meetings, telling our story, and building relationships with senior decision-makers.
• Contracting & Negotiation Support: Prepare the materials that power our negotiations - rate benchmarking, proposals, term sheet comparisons, and creative partnership structures - and help drive deals across the finish line.
• Execution & Partner Management: Keep live partnerships moving - coordinating launches, tracking performance, and surfacing issues and opportunities before they become problems.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in consulting, finance (e.g., banking, PE, VC), or working at a venture-backed startup.
• AI-forward operator - already using AI tools daily to work faster and smarter, excited to leverage AI to multiply output.
• Strong analytical skills - comfortable building a financial model, digging into data, and turning it into a clear recommendation.
• Strong commercial and executive presence - confident pitching to senior leaders and comfortable building trusted relationships with C-suite executives at payors, employers, and other partners.
• Scrappy and resourceful - finds a way to get things done, runs through walls, and is not afraid of taking on big goals.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership, ambiguity, and rapid iteration.

What would set you apart

• Healthcare experience or a personal connection to our mission of making independent local primary care accessible to more patients.
• Demonstrated examples of scrappiness - landing meetings with senior executives, finding creative and unique solutions to hard problems, or changing the status quo within your organization.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity compensation
• Top-tier health and dental
• Health & wellness stipend
• Eligible to participate in company-sponsored 401(k) plan

Company Description

Corner Health is rebuilding primary care by helping Nurse Practitioners (NPs) start and scale their own independent practices. Our AI-native operating system handles everything from billing and insurance to patient communication and clinical workflows, giving providers more time to do what matters most: care for patients.

In the past year, we’ve become the fastest-growing primary care network in Arizona and Washington, supporting more than 70 provider-owned practices and over 50,000 patient visits.

Corner Health was founded by Lava Sunder and Anne Gifford and has raised $32.5M from Oak HC/FT, First Round Capital, Zigg Capital, and the founders of DoorDash, Commure, Grow Therapy, Kindred, Culdesac, and more.