Director, Strategy and Partnerships

The role

This person will own strategic commercial partnerships, market expansion, and brand positioning. They will work across partnerships, marketing, and strategy as an individual contributor with potential to build a team.

What you will do

• Source, structure, and close strategic commercial partnerships
• Drive internal execution for partnerships
• Identify and evaluate new markets, categories, and customer segments
• Build sizing, competitive analysis, and go-to-market approaches
• Own market positioning, demand generation, and thought leadership
• Weigh build, buy, and partner alternatives
• Run diligence on pursuits
• Prepare board- and investor-grade analysis

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of overall experience
• 3+ years in partnerships, business development, or growth in healthcare data, health technology, or life sciences
• Exposure across commercial, marketing, and analytical work
• Quantitative depth and analytical thinking to build a market model in Excel
• Strong writing and presentation skills
• Fluency in AI to leverage applications, tools and use cases
• Comfort with ambiguity, accountability and being the only person on a project

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM or quantitative field
• Go-to-market/industry experience in medical aesthetics or cash-pay healthcare
• Existing relationships across manufacturers, providers, investors, or industry organizations

Benefits

• 15 PTO days, 10 legal holidays, and sick days
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) match up to 10% of employee contribution
• Life insurance
• Paid-off time and parental leave plans
• Commuter benefits
• Corporate gym rate
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
• Free snacks and beverages in the office
• Friday happy hour and Summer Fridays
• Year-round corporate athletic league
• Casual work environment, team building, and other social events

About the company

Guidepoint powers end-to-end research workflows for the world’s best research teams. It is backed by a global network of more than 2 million experts and over 1,600 employees.