Strategic Partnership Lead, Healthcare

Strategic Partnership Lead, Healthcare

Durham, North Carolina

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation's most pressing problems.

About Trase:

Trase is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform is an agentic operating system designed for regulated environments. It enables reliable execution of long-lived workflows, secure deployment across environments, and full auditability of system behavior.

Trase has raised $10.5M in pre-seed funding from Red Cell Partners, with active deployments across healthcare, national security, and enterprise environments.

About the Role:

Operating as the primary liaison at Duke Health, located in the Research Triangle, you will lead the partnership lifecycle for our anchor health system customer—one of the most sophisticated academic medical center ecosystems in the country—acting as a consultative advisor to clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders to drive AI transformation from initial discovery through scaled implementation.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of product strategy, enterprise deployment, and go-to-market for agentic AI systems, ensuring Trase delivers measurable operational value to our most critical healthcare partner. You will be instrumental in bringing operational AI from concept to production – defining high-value use cases, shaping technical and deal strategy, and scaling across service lines at a major Academic Medical Center, their regional affiliate network, and beyond.

Core Responsibilities:

Agentic AI Strategy & Roadmap

• Engage C-suite, clinical, operational, IT, academic, and research leaders to understand the strategic priorities across service lines (i.e., cardiology, primary care, oncology, DCRI, etc.) and map them to Trase agentic capabilities.
• Surface competitive intelligence of healthcare use cases gaining market traction to inform the joint Duke-Trase product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.
• Co-manage the quarterly Joint Steering Committee meeting and iterate on the charter as the partnership progressive to meet our collaborative objectives.

Use Case Discovery and Expansion

• Build the business cases and ROI frameworks that decision-makers need to select and prioritize Agentic use cases — clinical impact narratives (i.e., impact cards), financial models, and value stories grounded in real clinical data.
• Partner closely with Trase product and engineering, Trase technical program managers, and Duke clinical leads to translate partner needs and requirements into scoped engagements.
• Navigate legal, procurement, compliance, clinical, and IT governance processes across large, matrixed health system organizations. This involves leading multi-disciplinary reviews to ensure that all AI deployments adhere to institutional safety standards, data privacy regulations, and complex hospital system bylaws.
• Proactively identify potential regulatory bottlenecks and collaborate with internal Trase legal and security teams to streamline the path from initial technical discovery to formal procurement and clinical activation.
• Structure and negotiate Statements of Work (SOWs) within the established enterprise agreement, ensuring each engagement is clearly defined with measurable milestones and success criteria.
• Collaborate with internal Trase legal, security, and product teams to ensure all negotiated SOWs align with the partner's clinical & IT requirements.
• Proactively manage the lifecycle of these agreements, from initial technical discovery and scoping to formal procurement and eventual clinical activation and expansion to additional service lines.

Change Management & Institutional Advocacy

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