Data Partnerships Lead at BranchLab (Boulder, CO)
BranchLab· Boulder, CO·
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Job Title: Data Partnerships Lead Job Type: Full-time, Hybrid in office in Boulder, CO Reporting To: CEO Work Authorization: Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship
ABOUT BRANCHLAB
BranchLab is transforming healthcare commercialization with Pathwai™, the industry’s first Semantic Activation Platform. Our AI-native technology helps leading healthcare organizations and their agencies make smarter commercialization decisions and connect patients, providers, and caregivers to life-improving therapies and resources.
Built for the evolving privacy landscape, BranchLab improves commercialization performance without relying on individual-level health information. By modernizing the industry’s technical infrastructure, we help organizations operate more efficiently and responsibly while improving how healthcare audiences are understood, reached, and engaged.
BranchLab is helping build a more intelligent, efficient, and responsible model for healthcare commercialization.
THE OPPORTUNITY
BranchLab is looking for a Data Partnerships Lead to manage and grow the data ecosystem behind the industry’s first Semantic Activation Platform, Pathwai™.
As the Data Partnerships Lead, you will oversee BranchLab’s data partner ecosystem, focused on acquiring and managing privacy-first datasets that fuel precision, privacy-safe healthcare DTC and HCP population modeling, audience creation, activation, optimization and measurement.
You will work across the full partnership lifecycle from ecosystem mapping and partner sourcing through evaluation, negotiation, integration, launch, and expansion. This role sits at the intersection of data, AI, and healthcare commercialization. It requires someone who can understand complex data assets, recognize high-value use cases, develop mutually beneficial partnership models, and coordinate execution across internal and external teams.
The ideal candidate understands how privacy-conscious healthcare and consumer data can support audience intelligence, activation, optimization, and measurement. They bring strong commercial judgment, curiosity, and the ability to build trusted relationships throughout the healthcare data ecosystem.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and execute BranchLab’s data partnership strategy, aligned to Pathwai’s product roadmap, commercial priorities, and need for differentiated data coverage.
- Build, evaluate, and prioritize a pipeline of healthcare data, identity, media activation, and measurement partners based on quality, coverage, privacy, scalability, and product impact.
- Own partnership opportunities from sourcing and diligence through business case, negotiation, contracting, integration, launch, and expansion.
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Security, and Commercial teams to turn partner capabilities into product and commercial value.
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 4–7 years of experience in data partnerships, strategic partnerships, data acquisition, data licensing, healthcare technology, or a related commercial role.
- Experience with healthcare data, health technology, life sciences, pharmaceutical commercialization, health media, advertising technology, identity, or another data-intensive industry.
- Ability to evaluate data and technology partnerships across strategic, product, technical, commercial, privacy, permitted-use, and data-rights considerations. Strong communication, relationship-building, analytical, and execution skills, with comfort leading cross-functional work in a fast-moving environment
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- Build a strong pipeline of healthcare data and technology partners that can expand Pathwai’s data coverage, predictive capabilities, activation footprint, and measurement offering.
- Create a repeatable process for identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, contracting, launching, and scaling data partnerships.
- Develop trusted partner relationships and align internal Product, Data Science, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Commercial teams around execution.
- Turn new and existing partnerships into measurable product differentiation, customer value, and commercial growth for BranchLab.
WHY JOIN BRANCHLAB?
- Competitive Salary & Comprehensive Benefits
- Small, Agile Team – Your work will have a direct impact
- Equity Opportunities – Grow with the company
Why work at BranchLab
- High-growth startup: Founded in 2024 and already at Series A with $35M total funding, backed by top-tier healthcare and AI investors including McKesson Ventures and Sanofi Ventures.
- Meaningful mission: Work on AI that directly impacts how patients learn about and access life-improving therapies — the company explicitly states their work is grounded in “the belief that more informed, compliant, and predictive decision-making can meaningfully improve how healthcare systems serve patients.”
- Cutting-edge AI work: Building novel transformer-based architectures for regulated environments — a challenging technical problem at the intersection of AI, healthcare, and privacy.
- Flexible locations: Offices in both New York, NY and Boulder, CO — roles are listed as hybrid/on-site in those locations (specific policy per role).
- Engineering & data science focus: Current open roles include Software Development Engineer, Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist, Manager of Data Science, and Product Designer — indicating a strong technical core.
- Early-stage culture: Opportunity to shape product, infrastructure, and culture at a formative stage; the company has a small team (LinkedIn shows ~2-10 employees range) offering high ownership and impact.
- Leadership credibility: CEO Josh Walsh and CTO Dan Parkes bring deep domain expertise; the team includes VP of Data Science & AI Kat Drake.