--- title: 'National Sales Director (Breast Cancer) at Artera' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/national-sales-director-breast-cancer-artera-united-states-nh3ph9560azf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # National Sales Director (Breast Cancer) at Artera - **Company:** Artera - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $215k–$230k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/artera/f2940c44-8f9a-477a-900c-0b3402071306 ## Job description About Us: Artera is an AI startup that develops medical artificial intelligence tests to personalize therapy for cancer patients. Artera is on a mission to personalize medical decisions for patients and physicians on a global scale. Artera is seeking a dynamic and strategic-minded individual to fill the role of National Sales Director. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in driving the commercial success of our organization, overseeing both sales strategy and execution. You will collaborate closely with the Vice President of Sales to develop and implement initiatives that maximize revenue growth and enhance our market presence. Essential Responsibilities: - Develop and execute a comprehensive commercial strategy aligned with the company's overall objectives. - Build and execute a national comprehensive sales plan. Lead sales team on creation of focused, concise sales plans. Regularly review key milestones, actions and targets. - Drive revenue growth, market expansion, and customer acquisition through innovative approaches. - Actively manage clearly defined strategies, tactics and lead metrics that support the growth goals and profitability. - Recruit, hire, onboard, mentor and train, and inspire a high-performing sales team, setting clear targets and providing guidance to achieve sales goals. Foster a culture of learning, where initiative, innovation and sustained performance is recognized and rewarded.  Implement best practices for sales processes, pipeline management, and performance metrics. Maintain a network of top talented sales professionals that are attracted to  joining Artera. - Identify and pursue new business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams. Foster relationships with key clients and stakeholders to drive business growth and ensure customer satisfaction to achieve sales objectives. - Conduct market research and analysis to identify trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs. Utilize insights to refine product offerings, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans. - Drive sales process optimization and initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the sales team. - Collaborate closely with other departments, including reimbursement, billing, operations, marketing, customer success, and clinical strategic partnerships, to align commercial efforts with overall business objectives. Champion a culture of teamwork and collaboration across the organization. - Serve as a sales professional, remain proficient in all areas of product and scientific knowledge.  Serve as a product expert with the sales team and with customers. - Lead by example. Conduct frequent 1:1s, field visits with the sales team to understand sales progress and growth. Proactively monitor sales trends against goals, coach to top performance. - Active coordination, attendance and participation at corporate meetings, trade shows and general meetings, as required. - Proactively monitor industry trends, regulatory and reimbursement changes and technology advancements to influence sales strategy and to maintain competitive edge. - Establish and maintain strong internal and customer relationships to drive business growth and new opportunities. - Prepare and run regular team meetings, lead team discussions to drive engagement, foster an environment of shared best practices. - Be a champion of account management to optimally track sales against goals Education and Experience Requirements: - Experience driving sales and building sales teams at startups, specifically medical and AI startups in regulated healthcare markets, with accompanying constraints. - Experience driving sales for both lab-developed tests and medical software - Proven track record of success in senior leadership roles, with extensive experience in sales management and business development. - Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate market insights into actionable plans. - Proven track record in driving a culture of accountability. - Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with clients and internal stakeholders. - Demonstrated leadership abilities, with a focus on coaching, mentoring, and inspiring teams to achieve exceptional results. - Results-oriented mindset, with a passion for driving growth and delivering value to customers. - Experience with breast cancer oncology & biomarkers is highly desirable. - Clear alignment with Artera AI’s values and corporate mission. Equal Employee Opportunity: At Artera, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients and physicians. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. ## About Artera ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Artera provides an AI-powered agentic platform that helps healthcare providers improve patient communication across voice, text, and web. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: Santa Barbara, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Guillaume de Zwirek (CEO & Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT / Patient Communication / AI Agents - **Target customers**: B2B – specialty groups, clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), large Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), and federal agencies - **Mission or purpose**: Making healthcare #1 in customer service by fostering better communication between providers and patients. ## Products & Services - **[Artera Harmony Platform](https://artera.io/)**: An agentic AI platform that coordinates AI agents (voice and text) across the full patient journey. Includes dedicated AI Service Squads that build custom solutions tailored to each provider’s workflows. Supports front and back office solutions for scheduling, reminders, follow-ups, and more. Type: SaaS / AI platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Trusted by 1,000+ provider organizations, engaging 100 million patients annually; 20B+ patient interactions processed. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed (integrations with major EHRs mentioned) - **Growth Signals**: 65% task completion rate for AI agent sessions; 4.7/5 average patient satisfaction (G2); Named #1 in Patient Communications 2026; 11+ years of healthcare-specific experience; FedRAMP High certification (Class D) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep healthcare roots**: 11 years focused exclusively on healthcare, not a pivot from another industry. - **Custom AI Service Squads**: Instead of a generic SaaS, Artera pairs its platform with dedicated experts who build tailored solutions for each provider’s workflows. - **Best-in-class security**: SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST Certified, HIPAA Compliant, FedRAMP High – meeting the most rigorous government and enterprise security standards. - **Proven scale**: 20B+ real patient communications power the AI models, giving them a data advantage over newcomers. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding agentic AI capabilities to cover the entire patient journey, from front-office scheduling to back-office follow-ups. - Deepening integrations with major EHRs and scaling custom solutions for diverse healthcare settings (specialty, FQHC, health system, federal). - Continuing to invest in AI-first internal culture and product innovation. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Celebratory, supportive environment with Trivia Tuesday, puppy Slack channels, peer recognition, themed competitions, hackathons, and nine Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) fostering inclusion. - **Work model**: Hybrid with hub cities (Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Budapest) plus remote roles available globally. - **Perks & benefits**: Flexible PTO (no accrual), comprehensive health plans ($0 copay for mental health and family planning on most plans), company equity for full-time employees, 12 weeks paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing), food delivery for first 30 days after welcoming a child, child care reimbursement, and customized learning & development programs. - **AI-first environment**: Employees work in an innovative, AI-first setting where AI builders collaborate directly with customers. ## Sources 1. [Artera Careers Page](https://artera.io/careers/) 2. [Artera Company Page](https://artera.io/company/) 3. [Artera Homepage - AI Agents for Healthcare](https://artera.io/) 4. [Life at Artera: Innovation, Impact, and the Team Behind It](https://artera.io/resource/life-at-artera/) 5. 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