Founding Partnerships Associate
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About the role
Duet is looking for a founding Partnerships Associate to own the full cycle of bringing independent NP practice owners onto the platform - from first touchpoint to signed deal to a warm handoff to our Customer Strategy team. This is a ground-floor role: you'll help us figure out what channels work, which messages land, and how to build a repeatable motion from scratch. You'll spend most of your time in conversation with NP owners - understanding the operational and financial pressures on their practices, diagnosing where Duet can move the needle, and building the trust that gets a deal across the line. You'll also roll up your sleeves on the prospecting side, testing tools, refining outreach sequences, and showing up at industry events as a face of the company. This role is right for someone who's energized by the early, ambiguous work of building a sales motion - not just executing one.
Responsibilities
- Pipeline Development
- Source and qualify NP practice owners through outbound prospecting, conference networking, referral channels, and whatever else you find works
- Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of opportunities, tracking activity and deal stage
- Experiment with prospecting tools and sequencing platforms to identify the most efficient channels for our market
- Deal Management
- Lead discovery conversations with practice owners to understand their clinical model, payer mix, and revenue challenges
- Work with Duet's diagnostic and analytics tools to build a compelling, data-backed case for each prospect
- Manage deals from initial contact through contract execution
- Events & Community
- Represent Duet at NP-focused conferences, regional association events, and industry meetups
- Build relationships in the NP community that generate long-term referral and partnership value - not just short-term pipeline
- Feedback Loop
- Bring market intelligence back to the product and clinical teams: what objections come up, what competitors get mentioned, what features are table stakes vs. nice-to-haves
- Help shape early sales collateral, pitch decks, and outreach templates
Requirements
- Required
- 2-5 years in a client-facing sales, partnerships, or business development role - ideally in healthcare, health tech, or a regulated industry
- Demonstrated track record of owning deals end-to-end, not just sourcing or supporting
- Strong discovery and consultative selling skills - you ask good questions and you listen
- Comfortable operating without a fully built playbook; you can create structure without waiting for it
- Excellent written and verbal communication; you can explain a financial opportunity clearly to a busy clinician
- Preferred
- Experience selling to independent or small-group medical practices
- Familiarity with practice economics: billing, coding, payer mix, revenue cycle
- Existing relationships in the NP or primary care community
- Experience evaluating or implementing sales prospecting tools (Apollo, Clay, Outreach, etc.)
- Why This Role, Why Now
- Duet is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the practices and communities we serve.
- This salary range for this is $75,000-$90,000 base plus bonus and equity. This role is hybrid based out of NYC.
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