About the Role
As a Data Partnerships Lead, you will help scale Kinetic’s healthcare partnerships function by identifying, negotiating, closing, and managing partnerships with organizations that can provide access to high-value healthcare data for AI model training, evaluation, and research.
Responsibilities
- Develop Kinetic’s data acquisition and partnership strategy across hospitals, medical groups, specialty networks, registries, payers, and adjacent RWD vendors.
- Identify and prioritize high-value data partners based on clinical relevance, modality coverage, data quality, scale, rights, and feasibility.
- Create the initial partner pipeline, outbound motion, pitch materials, CRM process, diligence checklist, and success metrics.
- Work closely with researchers and engineers to align data with overall research agendas.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in healthcare partnerships, business development, data licensing, RWD, health tech, life sciences data, provider strategy, or enterprise healthcare sales.
- Directly sourced, negotiated, or managed complex partnerships with health systems, provider groups, payers, EHR vendors, data vendors, life sciences companies, or research networks.
- Understand healthcare data: EHR data, claims, notes, imaging, labs, registries, FHIR/HL7, de-identification, tokenization, data quality, governance, and the practical messiness of getting data out of clinical systems.
- Can credibly discuss HIPAA, de-identification, DUAs, BAAs, IRB/research review, data governance, information security review, and commercial data licensing structures.
- Strong executive presence and can build trust with health system C-suites, general counsel, privacy officers, clinical informatics leaders, research leaders, and data governance committees.
- Scrappy, high-agency, and willing to do unglamorous work: cold outbound, conference follow-up, contract redlines, data dictionaries, partner Q&A, procurement portals, and last-mile operational details.
- Comfortable working long hours in a high-intensity, early-stage environment.
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Free lunch + dinner
About the Company
- Kinetic Systems works at the intersection of computer-use agents, data, and healthcare.
- Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier AI models on economically meaningful healthcare tasks by building novel datasets, environments, and models.
- Founded in 2025 out of the Stanford PhD program and backed by Tier 1 VCs.
- Founding-level impact and ownership.
- Leading AI research + healthcare expertise.
- An opportunity to advance AI research in one of its most meaningful application areas.
