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title: 'Senior Enterprise Implementation Manager at Collate'
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# Senior Enterprise Implementation Manager at Collate

- **Company:** Collate
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/collate/964a774c-bfe0-4bed-8b63-68c57a2259d3

## Job description

## About Collate

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

## About the Role

We’re looking for an Enterprise Implementation leader to join our team and help build the foundation for how we onboard and support customers. From the moment a deal closes, you’ll own the customer journey — designing onboarding experiences, configuring solutions, and ensuring our product drives immediate value. You’ll work side-by-side with customers to understand their workflows, translate needs into product setups, and guide them through successful adoption. Collate is a fully in-person company based in San Francisco.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead Full-Cycle Implementations - Drive implementations from kickoff to go‑live, including scoping, requirement gathering, configuration, testing, training, and deployment.
- Customer & Stakeholder Management - Serve as the primary liaison for clients, understanding complex scientific and regulatory workflows and ensuring their successful lift‑off.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work hand‑in‑hand with Product, Engineering, and Ops teams to define deliverables, manage scope, address technical challenges, and adapt solutions for regulated environments.
- Project Planning & Execution - Develop and manage detailed project plans, maintain schedules, track milestones, manage risks and issue escalation to ensure punctual, high‑quality delivery.
- Product Feedback & Process Improvement - Capture customer insights to inform product enhancements; contribute to refining internal implementation methodologies, templates, and tools to scale operations efficiently.

## What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of client-facing implementation experiences - Successfully led enterprise software or platform deployments, preferably within life sciences, biotech, or other highly regulated industries.
- Project Management - Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder projects from kickoff through delivery. Skilled in planning, scheduling, risk management, and keeping cross-functional teams aligned.
- Thorough and Detail-Oriented - Known for a meticulous approach to requirements gathering, solution design, and execution. Able to anticipate gaps, catch inconsistencies, and ensure deliverables standards.
- Communication & Collaboration - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical and scientific concepts for diverse audiences. Builds strong relationships with clients and internal teams.

Bonus Points

- Work experience in pharma, biotech, or med device
- Prior experience at a startup — able to wear multiple hats, thrive in ambiguity, and build structure in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Why Join Collate?

Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.

Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.

Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact.

The base salary range for this role is $141-200K and depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)

## About Collate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Collate is a unified platform for data discovery, observability, and governance, powered by OpenMetadata, that helps data teams build trust in data and accelerate AI and analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $10M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Saratoga, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Suresh Srinivas (Co-Founder & CEO); an unnamed Co-Founder & CTO (former architect at Uber, Hortonworks, and contributor to Apache Kafka/Storm)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data management, metadata management, data governance, data observability
- **Target customers**: B2B – data teams at Fortune 500 enterprises and innovative startups
- **Mission or purpose**: “Take the chaos out of the lives of data practitioners by providing a single pane view of all your data, and empowering collaboration.” [getcollate.io/about](https://www.getcollate.io/about)

## Products & Services
- **Collate Platform (SaaS)**: A unified semantic metadata graph that connects data assets, pipelines, metrics, and business concepts. Enables data discovery, observability, governance, and collaboration.
- **Collate 2.0 (AI for Data Platform)**: Adds agentic automation and orchestration, a Context Layer (Context Center, Memory, Persona-Based Context, Context API/MCP Tooling), AI Analytics (natural language to governed dashboards with verifiable reasoning), and AI Studio for custom agents. [linkedin.com/company/collateinc](https://linkedin.com/company/collateinc)
- **OpenMetadata (Open Source)**: The leading open standard for metadata management, created by the Collate team. Drives an active community of thousands globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10M (Series A, August 2025, led by Venrock)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Venrock (lead Series A), Unusual Ventures (seed backer)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 83.8% year-over-year to 57 employees; distributed across 7 countries (India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Italy); active job postings; 12,600+ LinkedIn followers (+155% year-over-year); launched Collate 2.0 in August 2026

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built on OpenMetadata**: An open, community-driven standard that ensures interoperability with any data and AI system.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Co-founders from Hortonworks (co-creators of Hadoop), Uber’s data infrastructure, and contributors to Apache Kafka, Storm, Atlas, and Databook.
- **AI-native approach**: Context layer and agentic automation differentiate from legacy governance tools.
- **Strong open-source community**: Thousands of contributors and adopters worldwide.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI for Data platform (Collate 2.0), deepening agentic automation and orchestration, expanding the semantic metadata graph, and enabling trusted AI analytics.
- **Growth direction**: Helping organizations move from fragmented metadata to a unified context layer that powers both human and AI data workers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Grow Together” – collaboration-focused, transparent, and customer-obsessed. Small team with no bureaucracy; direct access to founders.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote company with a strong remote culture; headquarters in Saratoga, CA, and an office in Menlo Park.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive salary and seed-stage equity; medical, dental, and vision insurance; work with smart, motivated peers; opportunity to shape engineering culture as an early employee. [getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer](https://www.getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer)

## Sources
1. [getcollate.io/about](https://www.getcollate.io/about)
2. [getcollate.io/careers](https://www.getcollate.io/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/collateinc](https://linkedin.com/company/collateinc)
4. [jobs.lever.co/collate](https://jobs.lever.co/collate/)
5. [getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer](https://www.getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer)

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