Manager, Enterprise Sales - Hcls

About the company
the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.About the role
As the Sales Manager for Healthcare & Life Sciences at the company, you'll lead the foundational team introducing our frontier AI platform to the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem — spanning biopharma, payors, and providers. You'll build and develop a team of Strategic Account Executives who drive adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with biopharma companies, health plans, health systems, and hospitals. You'll bring deep domain fluency across the segment to coach your team's consultative sales approach, while becoming a trusted advisor yourself to senior healthcare and life sciences stakeholders — helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with Product and Marketing, you'll continuously refine the team's value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to resonate with decision-makers across each sub-segment.The ideal candidate has a passion for developing new market segments within healthcare delivery, payor operations, and life sciences, pinpointing high-potential opportunities across the portfolio, and building a team that can execute strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of the company's emerging products across biopharma, payor, and provider organizations, you'll help healthcare and life sciences enterprises obtain new capabilities while advancing the ethical development of AI.Key responsibilities
Build and lead a specialized team of Strategic Account Executives covering biopharma, payor, and provider accounts, setting growth targets by sub-segment and coaching reps through the full sales cycle from outbound to closeDesign and oversee sales strategies tailored to each sub-segment's distinct procurement cycles — R&D and commercial budgeting in biopharma, value-based care initiatives and Star Ratings priorities for payors, clinical and administrative budgeting for providers — translating market and trend analysis into account plans and campaigns that meet and exceed team revenue targetsIdentify and prioritize high-potential opportunities across clinical departments, care management teams, claims processing units, drug discovery and commercial functions, and administrative offices, partnering cross-functionally to differentiate the company's offering for healthcare delivery, payor, and life sciences use casesRun a disciplined pipeline and forecasting cadence across the team, managing an evolving sales process to deliver predictable, coachable performance against quotaServe as the company's domain expert across the healthcare and life sciences value chain — including payer operations (claims adjudication, prior authorization, risk adjustment), provider operations, and biopharma R&D/commercial functions — and translate that expertise into repeatable playbooks, frameworks, and go-to-market strategies your team and the broader field organization can scalePartner directly with C-suite executives (CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CTOs, CCOs) across biopharma, payor, and provider organizations to design multi-year AI transformation roadmaps and build long-term trusted advisor relationshipsPartner closely with Product and Applied AI to translate feedback from clinicians, care coordinators, researchers, and administrative leaders into product and roadmap input, strengthening the company's value proposition across the segmentBuild strategic relationships with healthcare- and life sciences-focused system integrators, health tech vendors, and industry organizations to scale go-to-market capabilitiesEstablish the company's position as the AI partner of choice across healthcare and life sciences through conference presentations, white papers, case studies, and participation in industry forums (e.G., AHIP, NAHU, JPM Healthcare Conference, regional Blues plans associations)Codify learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices, partnering with Marketing and Enablement to scale winning use cases and proof points across biopharma, payor, and provider accountsMinimum qualifications
10+ years of experience in healthcare and/or life sciences, with at least 5 years specifically across payor, provider, or biopharma segments (health plans, managed care organizations, PBMs, health systems, pharmaceutical/biotech commercial or R&D functions, or related consulting)Experience in leadership roles managing or coaching enterprise sales teams, with a track record of driving measurable revenue outcomes in healthcare and/or life sciences settingsDeep understanding of business models, operations, and economics across at least one of biopharma, payor, or provider segments — including the regulatory environment (CMS regulations, HIPAA, FDA) and competitive dynamicsA track record of managing or overseeing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles within healthcare or life sciences organizations, securing strategic deals by understanding both technical requirements and clinical/administrative/commercial use casesProven experience exceeding revenue targets by effectively managing a team's pipeline and an evolving sales processExcellent communication skills, with the ability to present confidently across healthcare and life sciences audiences — from clinicians and researchers to C-suite executives and payor leadershipA genuine interest in deploying AI responsibly and motivation to advance the company's mission of building safe, beneficial AIPreferred qualifications
Deep understanding of buying cycles, decision-making processes, and key pain points across two or more of biopharma, payor, and provider organizationsA strategic, analytical approach to assessing the healthcare and life sciences market, paired with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities and a willingness to roll up sleeves on deals alongside the teamExperience developing and refining AI use cases in collaboration with customers and channel partners, spanning care delivery, population health, administrative efficiency, drug discovery, or commercial life sciences functionsExperience building or scaling a specialized sales team from an early stagePassion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems and their applications across clinical and life sciences settings, with strong conviction around safe, ethical development of AI in these contextsThe annual compensation range for this role is listed below.For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.Annual Salary:$450,000-$550,000 USDLogisticsMinimum education:
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experienceRequired field of study:
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceMinimum years of exper#J-18808-Ljbffr