Company Overview:

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled. That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity Overview:

We are looking for a Commercial Strategy Director to play a key role in scalings and growing our Intelligent Prior Auth Business. Reporting into the General Manager, you will be responsible for driving new or existing solutions critical to our growth and success. Your role will have both client facing and internal execution responsibilities and cover a wide range of functional areas. Ultimately, the work you do will have a direct impact on the growth and profitability of the company and our ability to impact more patients at a time in their healthcare journey when they need help most.

You should apply for this role if you are a leader who brings an entrepreneurial mindset to solving problems and thinks outside the box to bring innovative solutions to the market. You love working in the market to understand new product opportunities and can think on your feet in front of clients. You love getting into data, building models and analyses that give you clarity on what is happening, so that you understand the problem well and can craft a strong strategy and plan to address it. You value rapid execution, and can quickly iterate based on feedback. You are great at communicating, highly value simplicity, and are constantly coming up with new ideas and constantly have new ideas on things that could be better in the world.

Last but not least: People who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

What you will do:

Deeply understand how Cohere’s product and client solutions work from a quantitative perspective; actively identify opportunities to drive efficiencies and improve the value prop with clients
Work cross-functionally with clinical, compliance, operations, data science, and engineering teams to solve complex problems; drive the problem definition, solution, implementation and measurement from beginning to end
Develop new product and solution ideas that expand the value Cohere delivers to customers and patients
Work with teams to develop client facing materials, customer facing analyses, and present to internal and external audiences
Conduct ad-hoc analyses to inform the product roadmap, internal investments, and support the executive team in key strategic business decisions
Manage timelines, resources, and operational dependencies for projects you own, ensuring seamless execution from start to finish
Work closely with subject matter experts (e.g., clinical specialists) to deeply understand a specific area of the industry and distill this knowledge into clear opportunities
Superb communicator; capable of distilling complex ideas into simple concepts that are easily explainable to others
Customer-facing, capable of thinking on your feet and taking a consultative approach with clients
Entrepreneurial by heart; strong intuition for what is going to actually work; your hypotheses are often correct
Detail oriented in analyses, but equally capable to pull up and see the big picture
Understand how to work with data quickly. You are an excel wizard, understand relational data sets, and optionally have experience with BI tools
Strong grasp of business finance and business strategy; practical by nature
Self-directed, confident, and thrive working in a fast-paced startup environment
Experienced with data and technology; strong understanding of how technology businesses operate and ability to communicate them simply to others
Excellent at distilling signal from noise; Capable of quickly synthesizing large amounts of information to the root of what is actually going on
Superb leadership, active listening, and communication skills (writing, speaking, presenting); humble, credible and influential with a wide variety of stakeholders including team, users, prospects/customers and partners

Your background & requirements:

7+ years of experience working in top-tier consulting firm, big-tech, health-tech, startup, or similar environment
Remote, occasional travel
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, STEM, or equivalent professional experience
Passionate about improving the U.S. healthcare system and helping ensure every patient receives the best care possible

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.

The salary range for this position is $160,000 to $180,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

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