Director of Payer Strategy & Partnerships

The role

You will build and run the strategy for contracting with regional health plans. You will own the end-to-end process of prioritizing targets, communicating value propositions, and negotiating agreements to expand insurance coverage.

What you will do

• Win new payer contracts by building and executing strategy for regional health plans.
• Prioritize targets, run outreach, lead partnership discussions, and negotiate agreements.
• Work with clinical and clinical operations teams to execute clinical quality strategy.
• Identify high-ROI strategies for raising payer awareness.
• Stand up a partner success model including reporting and regular check-ins.
• Partner with Product and Operations to build processes for launching new payer partnerships.
• Evaluate new growth channels such as Medicaid and direct-to-employer.

Required qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience, ideally a mix of management consulting and a healthcare services or health tech company.
• Extreme ownership.
• First-principles thinker.
• Resilient and resourceful.
• Executive presence.
• Highly organized.
• Healthcare services fluency.

Nice to have

• Partner-facing experience (BD, partnerships, partner success or growth)
• Payer experience

About the company

Prosper Health delivers specialized mental health services for autistic and neurodivergent adults, covered by insurance. The company is a high-ownership, mission-driven team growing 3x year over year.