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# Strategic Partnerships Associate at Corner Health

- **Company:** Corner Health
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/corner-health/7f183630-9539-4016-85b4-675e297dd7ba

## Job description

## About us

Corner Health is rebuilding primary care by helping Nurse Practitioners (NPs) start and scale their own independent practices. Our AI-native operating system handles everything from billing and insurance to patient communication and clinical workflows, giving providers more time to do what matters most: care for patients. In the past year, we’ve become the fastest-growing primary care network in Arizona and Washington, supporting more than 70 provider-owned practices and over 50,000 patient visits. Corner Health was founded by Lava Sunder and Anne Gifford and has raised $32.5M from Oak HC/FT, First Round Capital, Zigg Capital, and the founders of DoorDash, Commure, Grow Therapy, Kindred, Culdesac, and more.

## About the Role

At Corner Health, we’re building something fundamentally different: a network of hyper-local, independent, in-person primary care practices powered by modern technology. This is a completely new model of care. Today, 88% of patients prefer a provider powered by Corner Health over other options, and patients return at twice the national average rate—not because of marketing, but because the experience actually works.

As an Associate on the Strategic Partnerships team, you will be a force multiplier across partner strategy, sourcing, execution, and other special projects. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role where you will play a critical role in building the Strategic Partnerships function from the ground up.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love turning strategy into execution, and want to shape how innovative healthcare solutions reach more patients through employers, payors, and other ecosystem partners, this is the role for you.

## What you’ll work on

- Partner Strategy & Analysis: Support the development of our payor, employer, and ecosystem partnership strategy - sizing markets, building financial models, and turning data into clear recommendations.
- Sourcing & Pipeline: Research, identify, and prioritize new partnership opportunities, and own the partner pipeline from first outreach through a signed agreement.
- Commercial Meetings: Pitch Corner Health to payors, employers, and ecosystem partners - leading meetings, telling our story, and building relationships with senior decision-makers.
- Contracting & Negotiation Support: Prepare the materials that power our negotiations - rate benchmarking, proposals, term sheet comparisons, and creative partnership structures - and help drive deals across the finish line.
- Execution & Partner Management: Keep live partnerships moving - coordinating launches, tracking performance, and surfacing issues and opportunities before they become problems.

## What you’re like

- You have 2–3 years of experience in consulting, finance (e.g., banking, PE, VC), or working at a venture-backed startup.
- You are an AI-forward operator - you already use AI tools daily to work faster and smarter, and you're excited to leverage AI to multiply your output
- You have strong analytical skills - comfortable building a financial model, digging into data, and turning it into a clear recommendation.
- You have strong commercial and executive presence - confident pitching to senior leaders and comfortable building trusted relationships with C-suite executives at payors, employers, and other partners.
- You are scrappy and resourceful - you find a way to get things done, run through walls, and are not afraid of taking on big goals.
- You are comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership, ambiguity, and rapid iteration.

What would set you apart

- You have healthcare experience or a personal connection to our mission of making independent local primary care accessible to more patients.
- You have demonstrated examples of scrappiness - landing meetings with senior executives, finding creative and unique solutions to hard problems, or changing the status quo within your organization.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary & equity compensation
- Top-tier health and dental
- Health & wellness stipend
- Eligible to participate in company-sponsored 401(k) plan

## What we're like

You’re joining an early-stage company - it’s important to learn more about what we’re like!

We're a small team with high ownership and high autonomy. We are motivated by the providers we get to know, and the patient lives we impact.

We love celebrating when one of our providers hits a patient growth milestone, when we see a stellar review written by a patient who finally feels listened to, or when we ship a quick feature request that a provider has (our fastest time from request → live was 12 minutes!)

We use best-in-class tools to move fast and punch above our weight, and the work we do has a direct, tangible impact on people's health and lives, and we feel that every day.

Lastly - one of our team values is "Life is short - it's OK to laugh". Whether it's late-night team dinners, mini golf, or just jamming on new ideas for our providers - we work hard and have fun doing it.

Corner Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

## About Corner Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Corner Health is an early-stage technology company building the backbone for independent primary care by equipping Nurse Practitioners with the billing, insurance, credentialing, and AI-powered workflow infrastructure they need to launch and run thriving local practices.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage startup; $7.4M total funding as of May 2025, with a recently announced $25M Series A led by Oak HC/FT)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (recent early-stage company; founding team active around 2024–2025)
- **Founders**: Lava Sunder (Co-founder & CEO), Anne Gifford (Co-founder & COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Healthcare services, healthcare technology (Hospitals and Health Care)
- **Target customers**: Independent Nurse Practitioners (B2B providers) and patients seeking primary care (B2C) in Arizona and Washington
- **Mission**: Build the future of independent healthcare by helping clinicians own their practices and make healthcare feel personal again — giving providers the time, attention, and financial independence to practice medicine on their own terms.

## Products & Services
- **Practice Operations Platform (Backbone for Independent Primary Care)**: An all-in-one service layer covering billing, insurance, credentialing, and administrative infrastructure so Nurse Practitioners can focus on patient care instead of paperwork.
- **AI-Powered Workflows**: Automated tools that reduce administrative burden for providers, letting them see fewer patients per day while delivering longer, more personalized visits.
- **Provider Network / Marketplace**: A curated network of 70+ independent, provider-owned practices, each vetted and held to consistent standards, that patients can discover and book through Corner Health's platform.
- **Wellness & Longevity Services**: Access to services like IV hydration, peptide therapy, and medical weight loss through network practices.
- **Chronic Condition & Preventative Care**: Ongoing support for diabetes, blood pressure, asthma, heart health, pap smears, birth control, prostate checks, mental health screening, and lifestyle support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**:
  - Total funding: $7.4M (venture round raised 2025-05-14, 1 investor) — per data aggregator
  - Recent news: A $25M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, alongside First Round Capital and others, announced around July 2026 (note: the $7.4M figure and $25M Series A appear in separate sources; treat $25M as the more recent reported round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Oak HC/FT (Series A lead), First Round Capital (participant), plus one undisclosed earlier venture investor
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 70+ independent practices in the network
  - 35,000+ patient appointments (30,000+ bookings per homepage, with 4.95★ / 4.9★ average provider rating)
  - Headcount grew 116.7% YoY to 11 employees, with strong monthly growth (+8.3%)
  - Active in Arizona and Washington, with plans describe as building "one of the fastest growing primary care models in the country"
  - Patients pay ~30% less on average while receiving the same high-quality care

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independent Provider Model**: Rather than employing providers directly, Corner Health empowers Nurse Practitioners to own their practices — a differentiated model that attracts clinicians who value autonomy and creates local, relationship-driven care.
- **Full-Stack Administrative Backbone**: The company removes the biggest barrier to independent practice (billing, insurance, credentialing, and paperwork) through a single integrated platform, making it hard for traditional clinics or marketplaces to replicate.
- **AI-Enabled Efficiency**: AI-powered workflows reduce administrative overhead, allowing providers to deliver 40-minute new patient visits and unrushed care at a lower cost (~30% savings to patients).
- **Quality & Trust Flywheel**: A vetted network with a 4.95★ average provider rating and high patient appointment volume builds brand trust with both providers and patients, creating network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand the Independent Practice Network**: Scaling beyond Arizona and Washington to bring the independent primary care model to more regions.
- **Deepen the Platform**: Continuing to invest in AI-powered workflows and back-office infrastructure to make launching and running an independent practice as frictionless as possible.
- **Attract Top Clinical & Operations Talent**: Actively hiring for growth, product engineering, customer success, and strategy/operations roles to build out the founding team.
- **Build a Generational Healthcare Brand**: Positioning Corner Health as the definitive technology partner for independent primary care, with a long-term goal of redefining how primary care is delivered in the U.S.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-Stage Impact**: A founding-team environment where employees (currently ~11 people) wear multiple hats and directly shape the product, strategy, and culture — recent hires include the first finance lead and founding team members in BizOps and Provider Growth.
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Co-founder Lava Sunder's personal story (growing up in his mother's independent practice) anchors the company in a deeply human mission: making healthcare personal again and helping clinicians achieve financial independence.
- **Location & Format**: On-site roles in Santa Monica, CA, with open positions including Customer Success Manager, Head of Growth, Head of Patient Growth, Product Engineer, Strategy and Operations Lead, and even a "Design Your Own Role" option for exceptional candidates.
- **AI-Forward + Human Oversight**: Uses AI tools to support hiring and workflows, but emphasizes that human judgment drives final decisions — a signal of their balanced, practical approach to technology.
- **Transparent Hiring**: Careers page clearly explains AI-assisted recruitment practices, indicating a thoughtful and honest hiring process.

## Sources
1. [Corner Health Official Site](https://www.cornerhealth.com/)
2. [Corner Health About Page](https://www.cornerhealth.com/about)
3. [Corner Health Careers Page](https://find.cornerhealth.com/careers)
4. [Corner Health Job Listings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/corner-health)
5. [Corner Health LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/corner-health-np)

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