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# Senior Strategic Engagement Lead, Life Sciences at Datavant

- **Company:** Datavant
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://www.datavant.com/about/careers/open-roles/job?gh_jid=5391541008

## Job description

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

## What We’re Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Senior Strategic Engagement Lead who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Strategic Engagement is the value engine of Datavant Life Sciences. We are accountable for driving meaningful, measurable outcomes for our customers by aligning our products and services with their strategic objectives - maximizing value, accelerating time to patient and business impact, and fostering long-term, expansive relationships. As such, we need an experienced relationship management individual who can drive success for our customers.

This role includes responsibilities for commercial outcomes (e.g., value realization, customer satisfaction, renewals, etc.) and post-sale activities (e.g., delivery, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.).

## What You Will Do

- Own account management and value management for a dedicated account portfolio of up to 15 accounts in our biopharma segment, with a special focus on end-to-end acceleration of value within your portfolio.
- Lead with curiosity and dive deep into learning and understanding the goals and strategies of our customers and how our solutions and products support those goals
- Excel in advanced program management and decision-making, balancing thoughtful analysis with speed to execution, appropriately prioritizing, and knowing when and how to escalate complex edge cases effectively
- Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall health scores
- Thrive in a fast-paced, continuous improvement environment, embracing gray areas and ambiguity, while seeking to drive clarity and scalability for your customers and the business
- Work effectively with your cross-functional partners - surfacing insights that influence product and sales strategies across account teams for your portfolio accounts.
- Take a self-service-first approach to problem solving and navigating questions internally and externally
- Be a proven communicator and presenter with a commitment to maintaining good  internal and external relationships through passion, empathy, and hard work
- Help create a company-wide culture of customer-centricity

## What You Need to Succeed

- 10+ years experience in healthcare technology and customer facing roles (required)
- Proven ability to build deep, trust-based relationships with customer stakeholders
- Seasoned strategic program and project manager focused on connect the dots thinking that puts client value at the center of everything
- Skilled at expanding relationships beyond direct contacts through rapport-building
- Demonstrated ownership of complex, high-value customer accounts
- Strategic thinker who connects cross-customer trends to shape value propositions.
- Effective and empathetic internal and external communication
- Previous experiencing working in one or more of the following areas (required):
- Experience working within RWD health analytic companies, CROs, or systems integrators in the healthcare sector
- Application of RWD and RWE in the pharmaceutical and life sciences space
- Understanding of drug development and/or clinical trials
- Living within commutable distance to our office in Boston, MA and able to commute to the office and to client sites periodically

## #LI-BC1

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation.

The estimated base salary range (not including variable pay) for this role is: $150,000—$180,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement [here](https://www.datavant.com/eeo-commitment-statement). [Know Your Rights](https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal), explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your answers will be anonymous and will help us identify areas for improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual ones. In fact, we aren’t even able to see whether you’ve responded.) Responding is entirely optional and will not affect your application or hiring process in any way.

Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please request it [here,](https://peopleteam.datavant.com/portal/en/newticket?departmentId=248697000248790029&layoutId=248697000248795462) by selecting the ‘Interview Accommodation Request’ category. You will need your requisition ID when submitting your request, you can find instructions for locating it [here](https://app.tango.us/app/workflow/Greenhouse--Locating-Requisition-ID-2c7d618c8a8a423da4330ff12330695e). Requests for reasonable accommodations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

For more information about how we collect and use your data, please review our [Privacy Policy](https://www.datavant.com/privacy-policy).

## About Datavant

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Datavant operates the largest health data collaboration platform, connecting fragmented healthcare data to enable secure, actionable intelligence for payers, providers, life sciences, and government.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Healthcare data infrastructure and analytics
- Target customers: B2B – health plans (payers), health systems (providers), life sciences companies, legal and insurance firms, government agencies, and real-world data partners
- Mission: “Make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable.”

## Products & Services
- **Datavant Platform (Data Network)**: The largest authorization- and consent-driven health data exchange in the U.S., connecting 80,000+ hospitals/clinics, 75% of the top 100 health systems, 100% of U.S. payers, and 350+ real-world data partners. Exchanges 1,500 TB of data and tokenizes 1 trillion records annually.
- **Secure AI Activation**: Privacy, consent, and de-identification controls built into workflows, with expert-governed deployment and context-aware AI workflows grounded in proprietary clinical data and domain expertise.
- **Segment-Specific Solutions**:
  - **Health Plans**: Bi-directional connectivity and clinical data to optimize member insights and care offerings.
  - **Life Sciences**: Privacy-first, diverse real-world data for drug discovery and patient outcomes.
  - **Providers**: Secure, compliant data exchange for health systems.
  - **Legal & Insurance**: Data access for claims, litigation, and risk management.
  - **Public Sector**: Data-driven advocacy, research, and health equity initiatives.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not listed in public sources; network scale metrics include 1 trillion records tokenized annually and 80,000+ connected provider sites.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Top pharma companies partner with Datavant; 100% of U.S. payers access clinical data through the platform; network includes 350+ real-world data partners. (Specific investor names not provided in search results.)
- **Growth Signals**: Largest health data network in the U.S., expanding AI agentic workflow capabilities, and serving all major healthcare segments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale**: Unmatched breadth of connectivity – the largest authorization-driven health data network.
- **Trust Infrastructure**: Regulatory-grade privacy and de-identification built into every layer, enabling secure data movement without compromising compliance.
- **Proprietary Clinical Data & Domain Expertise**: Grounds frontier LLMs with healthcare-specific context, ensuring accurate and safe AI deployments.
- **Network Effects**: Bi-directional connectivity and a vast partner ecosystem create strong switching costs.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Driven Intelligence**: Accelerating “context-aware AI workflows” and agentic automation across the healthcare ecosystem.
- **Network Expansion**: Deepening connections across payers, providers, life sciences, and new verticals (legal, insurance, government).
- **Data Readiness**: Digitizing and cleaning data end-to-end to deliver faster insights and support next-generation analytics.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: High-performing, fast-paced environment with a focus on “earn trust,” “win as a team,” “obsess over customers,” “prioritize growth over comfort,” and “rise to the challenge.”
- **Remote-Friendly**: A distributed, remote-friendly team with occasional in-person collaboration opportunities.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health plans, generous parental and family leave, and a strong emphasis on work-life balance.
- **Professional Development**: Award-winning learning and development programs (recognized by Brandon Hall Group), continuous learning opportunities, and career growth across all levels.
- **Mission-Driven**: Opportunity to work on transformative healthcare data challenges that directly impact patient outcomes and system efficiency.

## Sources
1. [datavant.com](https://www.datavant.com/about) – Company overview, leadership, and mission
2. [datavant.com](https://www.datavant.com/) – Platform description, network scale, and segment solutions
3. [datavant.com](https://www.datavant.com/about/careers) – Careers page: values, benefits, remote policy, and learning programs
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavant) – Venture-backed status
5. [datavant.com](https://www.datavant.com/about/careers/open-roles) – Open roles portal

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