Principal, Strategic Partnerships
About Us
Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy. Why Join Our Team Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare‑only, safety‑focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation. Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co‑founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others. Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world‑changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal, Strategic Partnerships to lead expansion and transformation within our most significant health system partners. Reporting to the VP of Growth and partnering with internal executive leadership, you will operate as a senior strategic advisor, navigating the largest health systems in the country "broad and deep" - maintaining C-suite alignment while executing discovery across clinical and operational service lines. Your objective is to identify and prioritize high-value workflows, architecting the roadmap for enterprise-wide AI adoption.
What You'll Do
Executive Relationship Governance: Maintain trusted, long-term partnerships with CEOs, CFOs, and CMOs to ensure Hippocratic AI remains central to the organization’s strategic roadmap. Multi-Level Strategic Discovery: Navigate 1–2 levels below the C-suite to engage Departmental Heads and Service Line Leaders, uncovering specific clinical and operational use cases for AI application. Healthcare Economic Analysis: Utilize a sophisticated understanding of healthcare economics to evaluate and prioritize use cases based on their impact on health system margins, labor capacity, and clinical outcomes. Organizational Navigation: Demonstrate elite judgment in navigating the complex political and matrixed environments of $5B+ health systems to drive consensus across competing internal stakeholders. Partnership Expansion & Utilization: Drive exponential account expansion by identifying new high-impact use cases and driving increased utilization across the enterprise. Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partner with internal Delivery, Clinical, and Product counterparts to transition identified opportunities from the discovery phase to technical implementation. This role requires a minimum of 20-40% travel, which may include overnight or out-of-state trips. What You Bring Must Have: 15+ years of leadership experience in enterprise healthcare transformation, strategic sales, commercial leadership, or high-level management consulting. Exceptional Commercial & Clinical Fluency: Proven ability to engage a CFO on margin pressure, a CMO on clinical workflow risk, and a CIO on technical integration strategy. Track Record of Scale: Experience personally closing or expanding $2M+ enterprise engagements and managing the long-term health of large-scale transformative partnerships. Consistent Excellence: Track record of being the top performer. Political & Strategic Maturity: A demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders in novel categories where no prior budget line existed. Travel: Willingness to travel 50%+ for high-touch, on-site discovery and executive engagement. Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MHA, or other advanced degrees are highly preferred. Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.