[Hiring] Head of Strategic Affiliations & Ecosystem Partnerships @Chartis

Role Description

The Head of Strategic Affiliations & Ecosystem Partnerships is an enterprise strategy leader responsible for designing, governing, and activating Chartis' external ecosystem strategy in line with Chartis’ enterprise strategy. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, this executive will build a disciplined portfolio of strategic affiliations that accelerates enterprise growth, strengthens Chartis' differentiation, and improves measurable client outcomes.

The primary objective of this role is to position Chartis as a trusted curator, integrator, and outcome-accountable activation partner across the healthcare technology and innovation ecosystem. The executive will work with the Executive Leadership Team to identify solution areas and business segments that may benefit from a more robust affiliation/partnership.

The role will manage affiliations across:

• Technology companies
• AI-native platform companies
• Hyperscalers
• Healthcare technology and tech-enabled services firms
• Law firms
• Banks
• Venture capital
• Select academic and innovation partners
• Strategically relevant industry associations

The objective of these affiliations is to extend Chartis’ client impact across:

• AI activation and adoption
• Workflow redesign to optimize performance
• Measurable value realization

This person will connect this ecosystem directly to Chartis business unit leadership, product and technology leadership, AI and digital leadership, and enabling functions including legal, finance, marketing, and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 15+ years of executive leadership experience in corporate strategy, enterprise partnerships, technology, digital health, corporate development, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated success building and scaling enterprise partnership strategies between consulting firms, larger providers or large payers and technology companies across complex, matrixed organizations
• Deep understanding of the healthcare ecosystem, including providers, payers, healthcare technology, digital health, and AI-enabled platforms
• Experience working with senior executives across technology companies, AI-native firms, health systems, payers, investors, and other strategic ecosystem participants
• Proven ability to translate external relationships into business strategy, revenue growth, and measurable client outcomes
• Experience negotiating complex strategic and commercial agreements, including joint go-to-market, co-development, data-rights, referral, revenue-share, and outcomes-based arrangements
• Strong working knowledge of responsible AI and healthcare contracting considerations
• Executive presence and communication skills appropriate for CEOs, Boards, founders, investors, and C-suite client leaders

Requirements

• Design and execute Chartis' enterprise affiliation strategy in partnership with the Chief Strategy Officer, Office of the CEO, business unit leadership, and product and technology leadership
• Define the role partnerships should play in Chartis' growth model, solution portfolio, product roadmap, AI-enabled delivery model, market positioning, and enterprise value creation
• Prioritize partnership domains based on Chartis’ strategic agenda, client demand, outcome economics, implementation feasibility, business unit pull-through, and Chartis' right to win
• Create a multi-year roadmap for partnership development, activation, governance, and value capture across the firm
• Serve as the enterprise point of integration for partnership strategy across Chartis business units, centers, practices, segments, and enabling functions
• Design and maintain a rigorous partner evaluation framework that distinguishes high-value strategic partners from referral relationships, opportunistic vendor relationships, and lower-priority ecosystem contacts
• Evaluate partners based on prioritized criteria including but not limited to commercial fit, long-term financial viability, leadership quality, track record of success, responsible AI governance, and data rights
• Work with Chartis business unit leaders and product and technology leaders to determine where Chartis should build, where it should partner, and where it should integrate across multiple partner solutions
• Ensure the partner portfolio supports priority domain areas as defined by Chartis corporate strategy
• Maintain a disciplined partner map that includes preferred partners, emerging candidates, watch-list companies, and off-ramp criteria for underperforming partners
• Develop co-selling, co-marketing, joint solution development, and executive-access strategies that accelerate business development while preserving Chartis' independence and objectivity

Benefits

• Salary range: $200,000 - $275,000, plus may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off
• Wellness stipend
• Additional voluntary benefits

Company Description

At Chartis, we pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce. We value and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals and the different perspectives they provide. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, or protected veteran status.