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# People Business Partner at Iterative Health

- **Company:** Iterative Health
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $110k–$145k
- **Posted:** 2026-05-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth/jobs/4678430006

## Job description

Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes.

We built a leading performance-driven network of 100+ sites across the US, Europe, India, and Australia, conducting research directly in the communities where care is delivered across gastrointestinal, hepatology, obesity, and cardiology. By combining deep clinical trial expertise with cutting-edge AI, we connect sponsors' scientific ambitions with high-performing research teams that expedite and expand access to novel therapeutics for patients in need. Today, Iterative Health is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City with 250+ employees world-wide.

We are seeking a strategic and data-driven People Business Partner role to partner closely with leaders across corporate functions and site-based operational teams in support of a high performing, highly distributed healthcare services organization. This role will act as a trusted advisor, aligning people strategies with business priorities to support growth, scalability, and performance across the organization. Operating in a high-growth, M&A driven environment, this role requires a strong balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. The People Business Partner will play a key role driving organizational effectiveness, enabling leadership and supporting change initiatives while fostering a high-performing, mission-driven culture. This individual must be comfortable pivoting between both a strategic and hands-on level of engagement, with a strong focus on change and performance management, talent/leadership development, organizational design, employee relations and integration.

## Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership ● Serve as a trusted advisor, coach and thought partner to department, team and operational leaders, providing guidance on organizational strategy, workforce planning, employee relations issues and talent implications of business decisions ● Translate business priorities into actionable HR strategies that drive growth, scalability, and operational excellence to enable a high performing and engaged workforce. ● Develop a deep understanding of IH business units, financial drivers, and market industry dynamics to proactively shape people initiatives that help transform the business as we grow and scale our infrastructure. ● Serve as a strategic liaison and advisor between the business and People Team Center of Excellence’s (COE) to align HR service delivery with business priorities ● Identify opportunities to implement data-informed people strategies that strengthen organizational health, culture and maturity while directly impacting leadership effectiveness and team performance ● Lead workforce planning with business partners, anticipating skills and capabilities needed to scale the organization beyond current state – develop plans in conjunction with TA to identify talent profiles and succession bench ready for promotion to increased level of scope and responsibility

Talent and Performance Management ● Drive talent and performance management processes that reinforce accountability, ownership and high standards of behaviors / values alignment to support our high-performance culture ● Partner with leaders on succession planning, leadership development, compensation strategies and retention initiatives across the enterprise ● Use data and insights to inform talent decisions and effectively balance business needs with employee advocacy ● Coach and develop leaders to engage, motivate and lead high performing teams, identifying least effective performance and partnering with team leaders to address performance issues early on.

Change Management and Culture ● Lead change management efforts across our growing and evolving teams/structures to support effective communication, accountability and alignment to our strategic priorities ● Champion a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned with Iterative Health’s mission ● Support leaders in navigating ambiguity and leading through transformational change as an organization, providing insights and serving as a “thought partner” on operational and people challenges that dynamic growth brings.

Employee Relations and Coaching ● Provide expert coaching on employee relations, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics to enable a highly engaged, productive workforce while maintaining consistency and alignment to IH policies and procedures. ● Support positive culture building initiatives and drive employee engagement initiatives with team leaders to build highly engaged, motivated team members. ● Ensure compliance with employment laws and company policies – identify opportunities to improve, create and implement policies and procedures that balance business needs with operational realities M&A

HR Integration ● Partner with internal stakeholders including People COE’s on due diligence, integration planning, and execution as part of pre and post-acquisition integration process ● Support organizational design, talent assessment, and cultural integration efforts to ensure seamless onboarding of acquired entities and team members to IH ● Anticipate, identify and mitigate people-related risks associated with rapid growth and change, including supporting HR initiatives focused on harmonization of system, processes and policies across the growing enterprise.

HR Program Execution ● Partner with COE to deliver best-in-class HR transformational initiatives to support a growing and scaling workforce ● Own HR projects in support of strategic HR agenda focused on employee engagement, leadership development, performance management, and operationalizing best in class people initiatives and infrastructure that will attract, develop and retain talent.

## Qualifications

● 7–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including working in a fast-scaling, high-growth, complex and ambiguous start-up environment ● Experience in healthcare, clinical research, medtech, life sciences, or related industries strongly preferred ● Experience supporting a highly distributed, growing multi-site location network both domestically and globally is strongly preferred ● Demonstrated experience across a wide range of HR functional domains ● Strong business acumen with the ability to link HR strategy to financial and operational outcomes ● Proven ability to communicate and influence senior leaders as well as operate as a strategic partner, understanding the operational and strategic priorities of the business and how people strategies can make an impact ● Experience in organizational design, change management, and talent strategy ● Data-driven, analytical mindset with comfort leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions ● Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills ● Comfort navigating through ambiguity and managing multiple competing priorities ● A builder and inventor mindset – orientation towards thinking outside the box to pilot and test programs and initiatives to iterate before applying a one-size fits all approach. New York pay range $110,000—$145,000 USD

At Iterative Health, we’re actively working towards creating an environment that is representative of the diversity of patients our technology serves. We are focused on building an equitable and inclusive culture, and by extension, hiring process. If you require any accommodations to make the application process or interviewing experience more accessible to you, please contact CandidateAccommodations@iterative.health.

## About Iterative Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company that accelerates clinical research by combining AI-powered tools with a performance-driven global site network, focusing on GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology therapies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (also New York, New York)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Jonathan Ng, MBBS (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare technology, clinical research services, artificial intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – sponsors (pharma/biotech), CROs, and community-based provider networks (clinical research sites)
- **Mission or purpose**: “To accelerate clinical research to bring life-changing therapies to patients sooner, transforming care through expertise and proven results.”

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered Clinical Trial Platform**: Software that streamlines site selection, patient enrollment, and operational workflows, reducing burden and accelerating trial timelines.
- **Performance-Driven Site Network**: A global network of elite community-based research sites with deep expertise in GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology, enabling faster activation and high enrollment.
- **Site Enablement Services**: Operational support, training, and technology to help sites grow their research programs and improve performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $264 million (including $77 million Series C closed May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include GI Alliance, One GI, and US Heart & Vascular (USHV). Specific investors not named in provided materials, but Series C led by investors noted in Business Wire (May 14, 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Raised $77M Series C in May 2026 to accelerate clinical research.
  - Acquired cardiology research sites from NextStage Clinical Research (April 2026), expanding into cardiology.
  - Presented expanded trial performance data at Digestive Disease Week 2026, demonstrating consistent outperformance of industry benchmarks at double the scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Therapeutic Focus**: Specialized expertise in GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology allows for tailored site selection and patient recruitment that generalist CROs cannot match.
- **AI Integration**: Proprietary AI tools that enhance site selection, pre-screening, and operational efficiency, reducing time-to-market for sponsors.
- **Embedded Community Network**: Sites are integrated into community care settings, giving access to diverse patient populations and enabling faster, more representative enrollment.
- **Performance Track Record**: Proven ability to activate sites faster and achieve industry-leading enrollment metrics, as validated by DDW 2026 data.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Site Network**: Continue acquiring and onboarding high-performing community sites, particularly in cardiology and other adjacent therapeutic areas.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Invest in machine learning and data science to further automate and optimize clinical trial operations.
- **Expand Sponsor Partnerships**: Leverage the combined technology and site network to become the preferred partner for sponsors seeking rapid, reliable trial execution.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Focus on accelerating life-changing therapies to patients; work directly impacts patient access and trial efficiency.
- **Values: G.R.I.T.**: The company emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, compassion, resilience, and innovation. Described as a “people-first team of builders.”
- **Benefits**: 75% paid company benefits, 401k with 3% company match, health insurance, life/STD/LTD, and paid time off plus company holidays.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. Open roles span clinical operations, engineering, data science, finance, marketing, and more.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Company is well-funded (Series C, $264M total raised) and actively expanding through acquisitions and headcount, providing career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [iterative.health](https://iterative.health/) – Company homepage, mission, partners, news
2. [iterative.health/about-us](https://iterative.health/about-us/) – Founding story, team, leadership
3. [iterative.health/iterative-health-careers](https://iterative.health/iterative-health-careers/) – Culture, benefits, values
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth) – Current job openings (35 roles)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/iterative-scopes) – Funding history, total raised, stage

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