[Remote] Account Executive - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Outset is hiring an Account Executive to grow its business with healthcare and life sciences organizations. The role owns the full sales cycle for named accounts, landing new customers and expanding existing ones while partnering with internal teams to support adoption and growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle for a named set of healthcare and life sciences accounts, from prospecting to close
• Land new logos and grow existing customers across brands, therapeutic areas, and markets in life sciences, and across lines of business at health insurers (Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, commercial, and individual)
• Build trusted relationships with Market Research and Insights & Analytics leaders as your primary buyers, and expand into UX Research, Product, CX, and Patient and Member Experience teams within each account
• Lead discovery and demos that connect Outset to healthcare research workflows. In life sciences, that means HCP and patient research, patient journey mapping, concept and message testing, launch readiness, and brand tracking. At insurers, it means member research, plan selection and switching, retention, benefit design, and enrollment marketing. For UX, Product, and CX teams, it means digital and experience research
• Build account plans that map brands, therapeutic areas, lines of business, regions, buying centers, research budgets, and whitespace across each account
• Navigate complex enterprise sales processes, including HIPAA, GDPR, PHI handling, adverse event reporting, HCP compliance, information security, and vendor risk reviews, in partnership with our Security and Legal teams
• Maintain accurate forecasting and pipeline visibility in Salesforce
• Partner with Marketing and outbound teams to build targeted healthcare and life sciences plays (events, content, and references that resonate with each segment)
• Collaborate with Customer Success and Research teams to drive adoption and identify expansion opportunities post-sale
• Bring healthcare and life sciences market feedback back to Product and GTM, and become Outset’s go-to expert on the vertical

Skills

• 5+ years of quota-carrying B2B SaaS sales experience, with a strong track record of exceeding quota
• Demonstrated experience and expertise selling into and growing Healthcare accounts—you've owned commercial relationships with these customers and know how they buy
• Proven ability to run full-cycle enterprise sales, including prospecting, managing complex multi-stakeholder deals, and closing new business
• A track record of growing existing accounts through expansion and cross-sell across lines of business
• Working knowledge of healthcare and life sciences research, from HCP and patient research in pharma to member experience and plan ratings at insurers, and the privacy and compliance requirements (HIPAA, adverse event reporting) that govern it
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced startup environment
• An established network across Market Research and Insights & Analytics leadership at health firms
• Relationships with UX Research, Product, or CX leaders are a plus
• Experience selling research, CX, analytics, or AI solutions into healthcare

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Offers Commission

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