Platform Partnerships Director

The posting, as Definitive Healthcare, US wrote it

About Definitive Healthcare

At Definitive Healthcare, our mission is simple: to connect with the real people who make healthcare happen. With real data on real people, our customers get the Definitive picture of the Healthcare market to move their businesses and organizations forward.

We’re committed to delivering the industry’s most reliable, actionable, and differentiated insights and empowering the innovators and organizations transforming healthcare. Because when our customers succeed, healthcare improves—for everyone.

Since our founding in 2011, we’ve grown into a global company headquartered just outside Boston, Massachusetts, supporting more than 2,100 customers around the world. Along the way, we’ve built a culture centered on purposeful work, collaboration, curiosity, and meaningful impact.

We’re passionate about the work we do and the people we do it with. Through programs like Definitive Cares and our employee-led affinity groups, we create opportunities for our teams to connect and give back to the communities where we live and work.

About the position

Definitive Healthcare is building a market-leading digital audience business that enables healthcare brands, agencies, and platforms to activate high-quality HCP and consumer (DTC) audiences across the AdTech ecosystem. We are hiring a Platform Partnerships Director to own our platform partner relationships and grow the revenue that flows through them.

This role is the bridge between our data and the platforms where it is activated. You will manage and grow relationships with DSPs, SSPs, data marketplaces, curation platforms, and identity providers - keeping our audiences live and performing, signing the right new partners, and collaborating on healthcare solutions (curated deals, packaged offerings, co-developed products) that differentiate Definitive Healthcare in market. You will also be the market's voice back into Product: what partners are asking for, which audiences are being used, and where demand is growing.

Reporting into the AVP, Digital Sales, this is a highly cross-functional role working with Product, Data Science, Data Engineering, Sales, Operations, and external AdTech platform partners.

What y ou’ll do

Partner Management & New Partner Development

• Own the day-to-day relationship with existing platform partners (e.g. LiveRamp, DSPs, marketplaces, social platforms), maintaining consistent contact and serving as their commercial point of contact.
• Identify, evaluate, negotiate, and sign new distribution partners, prioritizing those that expand reach into the audiences buyers actually want.
• Resolve partner-facing issues with audience delivery, match rates, and distribution.
• Stay current on privacy, regulatory, and platform compliance requirements - healthcare data considerations, platform policies, NAI/DAA frameworks - and advise teams on what is commercially viable.

Integration with Product & Engineering

• Oversee the integration process end

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being, and their financial future.

• We invest in our people. We offer a competitive benefits package, including comprehensive healthcare benefits and a 401(k) match.
• We make room for connection and impact. Definitive Cares is our 100% employee-driven program that creates opportunities to connect with colleagues through affinity groups and make a positive impact on our communities.
• We’re a great place to work. In 2024 and 2025, we earned multiple workplace honors, including Built In’s 100 Best Places to Work in Boston (both years), a Stevie Bronze Award for Great Employers, and recognition as a Great Place to Work in India.

What our Employees are saying about us on Glassdoor

“Great Work atmosphere, great work life balance, excellent company to work for, amazing top notch product, incredible customer service, lots of tools to help you succeed.”

-Business Development Manager

“Great team. Amazing growth. Employees are treated very well.”

-Research Analyst

“I have waited 36 years to work at a dream job for a dream company, and I am so happy to have finally got there.”

-Profile Analyst

If you don’t fit all of these qualifications, but believe you’re still a great fit, feel free to apply and tell us why in your cover letter.

If you are a California, Colorado, New York City or Washington resident and this role is a remote role, you can receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request.

Definitive Hiring Philosophy

Definitive Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other status. If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!