Client Services Lead, Healthcare

mercor· Engineering
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📍 San FranciscoFullTime💰 USD 160K–180K

About this role

About Mercor

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

 

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

About the Role
As a Client Services Lead, you will own Mercor's relationships with healthcare and life sciences clients — providers, payers, pharma, and health-tech companies — from first contact through long-term account growth. You'll sit at the intersection of client management, data strategy, contracting, and stakeholder alignment, ensuring healthcare clients get maximum value from Mercor's expert network and data products, while navigating the sector's unique regulatory and clinical requirements.

This role is highly autonomous and intentionally scrappy: you'll be trusted to build the healthcare client function largely from scratch.

What You'll Do

Build the Healthcare Client Function (0 → 1)

  • Identify, engage, and onboard healthcare and life sciences clients and partners

  • Test and iterate on service models tailored to healthcare-sector needs (clinical accuracy, regulatory constraints, data sensitivity)

  • Create early playbooks for how Mercor serves healthcare clients

Account Ownership & Growth

  • Lead client conversations end-to-end, from scoping through renewal and expansion

  • Qualify client needs, define mutual value, and drive engagements to close

  • Structure commercial terms suited to healthcare organizations' procurement and compliance norms

Contracting & Negotiation

  • Own negotiations on pricing, scope, timelines, and obligations with healthcare clients

  • Work closely with Legal and Finance to move quickly without sacrificing rigor

  • Navigate data rights, privacy, and compliance requirements specific to healthcare (e.g., HIPAA)

Stakeholder Management

  • Act as the primary point of contact for healthcare-sector clients and senior stakeholders

  • Manage complex, multi-party relationships (clinical, compliance, technical teams) with clarity and credibility

  • Align internal teams (Product, Research, Ops, Legal) around healthcare client priorities

Operate Scrappily, Then Systematize

  • Start hands-on: build client lists, run outreach, draft docs, close deals yourself

  • Identify patterns and convert them into repeatable processes as the healthcare book of business scales

What We're Looking For

Experience

  • 5+ years in Client Service, Account Management, or Commercial roles, serving healthcare or life sciences clients

  • Proven experience negotiating and closing contracts

  • Track record managing high-stakes external stakeholders, including clinical and compliance functions

  • Direct experience working with data products

Mindset & Skills

  • Builder mentality: excited by ambiguity and 0→1 problems

  • Scrappy, resourceful, comfortable with unglamorous work early on

  • Strong commercial instincts and negotiation skills

  • Clear, concise communicator with executive presence

  • Able to operate independently while partnering closely with internal teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience in healthcare, life sciences, health-tech, or payer/provider organizations

  • Exposure to data-driven products, AI, or technical/clinical stakeholders

  • Background working cross-functionally with legal and finance teams

  • Familiarity with healthcare compliance and data rights (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST)

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure

  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years

  • Up to $15k relocation bonus

  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)

  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals

  • Free Equinox membership

  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement

  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement

  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the salary for the Client Services Lead, Healthcare role at mercor?
The listed salary for this Client Services Lead, Healthcare position at mercor is USD 160K–180K. This is an FullTime role.
Where is the Client Services Lead, Healthcare position at mercor located?
This Client Services Lead, Healthcare role at mercor is based in San Francisco. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Client Services Lead, Healthcare role at mercor full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Client Services Lead, Healthcare role in the Engineering department at mercor.
Which team or department does the Client Services Lead, Healthcare at mercor belong to?
This Client Services Lead, Healthcare position is part of the Engineering department at mercor. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
How do I apply for the Client Services Lead, Healthcare position at mercor?
Click the "Apply Now" button on this page. You will be redirected to mercor's official application portal hosted on ashby where you can submit your application directly.
When was the Client Services Lead, Healthcare job at mercor posted?
This Client Services Lead, Healthcare position at mercor was posted on Sep 23, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Client Services Lead, Healthcare
mercor · 💰 USD 160K–180K
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