Partnerships, Healthcare Admin & Operations

About this role

Company Overview:

We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.

Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech.

We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.

THE ROLE

Protege is hiring a Partnerships Manager, Healthcare Administrative & Operations Data to help customers and prospects access high-value, rights-protected healthcare data for AI training, post-training, evaluation, and workflow development.

You will sit at the intersection of customers, commercial teams, Data Lab, Solutions, Privacy and Legal, Operations, and healthcare data partners.

Your job will be to turn an unmet healthcare data need into a clear sourcing strategy, identify and qualify the right supply paths, and move the opportunity from first conversation through diligence, contracting, activation, and handoff.

This role is focused on administrative and operational data rather than primarily clinical or diagnostic datasets. Relevant workflows may include:

- Eligibility, enrollment, benefits, and member administration

- Claims, billing, payment, revenue cycle, and denial management

- Prior authorization, utilization management, and referral operations

- Scheduling, access, intake, registration, and care coordination

- Provider network, credentialing, staffing, and practice operations

- Contact center, patient/member communications, and service operations

- Pharmacy, lab, imaging, and other healthcare workflow operations

- Health plan, employer, third-party administrator, and population-health administration

- EHR, practice-management, care-management, and revenue-cycle workflow data

This is a generalist role with two connected motions:

- Reactive sourcing: Respond quickly to data requests tied to active customer and prospect opportunities, identifying the closest-aligned healthcare workflow or partner path and driving the work toward a viable commercial outcome.

- Proactive sourcing: Build relationships with promising healthcare organizations, technology companies, data aggregators, brokers, and channel partners before a specific deal requires them, using customer demand, market intelligence, and Data Lab priorities to decide where to invest.

You will not be responsible for sourcing everything indiscriminately. You will use judgment to prioritize healthcare data partners that are likely to create customer value, can meet Protege’s quality, privacy, and rights standards, and fit our commercial model.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Translate customer and prospect needs into clear healthcare data sourcing briefs, including workflow, population, modality, data elements, granularity, volume, format, geography, time period, refresh cadence, use case, rights requirements, and success criteria.

- Build a working map of healthcare administrative and operations data supply, including health systems, provider groups, payers, TPAs, MSOs, RCM companies, healthcare technology vendors, digital health companies, call centers, laboratories, pharmacies, data aggregators, brokers, and other relevant supply paths.

- Source and build trusted relationships with organizations that hold operationally rich healthcare data and can articulate its provenance, permissions, quality, and delivery model.

- Run partner discovery and qualification conversations to understand the underlying workflow, how the data is generated, what entities and events it represents, how it is linked, what fields and labels are available, and what transformations have been applied.

- Evaluate whether a dataset reflects real operational work rather than only static records, including queues, decisions, handoffs, exceptions, outcomes, timestamps, and longitudinal workflow context where appropriate.

- Assess privacy, security, and rights considerations early, including PHI and PII exposure, de-identification methodology, re-identification risk, consent or notice considerations, downstream use restrictions, data-use agreements, business-associate requirements, and any restrictions on AI training or model evaluation.

- Prioritize opportunities based on customer demand, strategic value, uniqueness, data quality, representativeness, feasibility, rights posture, delivery readiness, and the likelihood of a sustainable commercial relationship.

- Own partner progression from first conversation through NDA, sample intake, privacy and legal diligence, Data Lab evaluation, feedback, deal structuring, contracting, activation, and handoff into the appropriate operating team.

- Coordinate closely with Commercial, Data Lab, Solutions, Privacy, Security, Legal, Product, and Operations so that partner opportunities move quickly without creating avoidable delivery, rights, privacy, or pricing risk.

- Support customer and prospect deals by finding viable healthcare data paths, setting realistic expectations about coverage and limitations, and keeping internal and external stakeholders aligned on next steps.

- Help structure partnerships, including licensing, channel, co-development, exclusivity, data contribution, and other commercial arrangements, using Protege’s standard terms and pricing guardrails wherever possible.

- Maintain a clear, current view of partner capabilities, workflow coverage, data elements, active sourcing requests, qualification status, samples, risks, approvals, next steps, and commercial readiness in the systems…