People Business Partner, Waymark
$95.1-150k
Salary dependent on candidates location
Community-based care for people receiving Medicaid
Open for applications
Community-based care for people receiving Medicaid
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$95.1-150k
Salary dependent on candidates location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people enrolled in Medicaid programs find their way to better health through evidence-based community care.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of progressive HR experience including 3+ years as a strategic Business Partner
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Deep understanding of employment-related laws and regulations
- Required industry experience includes healthcare; value-based care is preferred, and technology experience is a plus
- Proven track record and desire for process improvement
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Previous compensation administration experience strongly preferred
- Combination of start up and established organization experience preferred
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR Certification preferred
What the job involves
- As the People Business Partner, you will be responsible for driving Waymark’s people strategy and serving as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to managers and leaders across the organization
- You will own the execution of key People initiatives, including employee engagement action plans, performance management cycles, talent development programs, and workforce planning, ensuring alignment with our mission and values
- Reporting to the VP, Head of People, you will partner closely with the People team to ensure the structures and processes we develop support a rapidly scaling organization
- You will lead critical projects in compensation, rewards, employee engagement and total retention, ensuring Waymark remains competitive and equitable in its employee value proposition
- Strategic People Partnership: Serve as a dedicated thought partner and strategic advisor to leadership, driving organizational design, talent development, and proactive team performance management
- Culture & Engagement Champion: Lead high-impact employee engagement strategies, translating survey data into concrete initiatives that champion a culture of belonging, feedback, high performance, and retention
- End-to-End Talent Architect: Lead and guide managers through core talent processes, including performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and compensation programs (merit, promotion, and salary structure updates)
- Expert Coaching & Employee Relations: Provide essential coaching to managers on complex employee relations issues, reasonable accommodation requests, and offboarding, ensuring compliance, fairness, and empathy
- Data-Driven Process Optimization: Utilize data and people analytics to continuously identify and implement improvements that enhance the overall employee experience and operational efficiency of the People function
- Projects: Lead various other People team projects and initiatives. Partner with VP, and Head of people to administer compensation programs such as merit/promotion process, annual incentive plans, evaluation of salary structures, etc
Our take
Over 80M people in the US receive healthcare coverage from Medicaid (a number that continues to grow), yet care is delivered through a highly fragmented network of independent primary care providers (PCPs). These providers often lack the infrastructure and coordination needed to effectively manage complex, high-need populations.
Waymark is addressing this gap by building a tech-enabled care model that combines data infrastructure with embedded clinical support. Rather than acting purely as a software layer, the company partners with health plans and PCPs to both coordinate and deliver care, deploying teams that include community health workers, pharmacists, care coordinators, and behavioral health specialists. Allowing Waymark not just to facilitate communication (e.g.. between doctors and pharmacist managing a diabetic patient's medications), but to actively support ongoing care.
A core part of Waymark's approach is using predicative analytics to identify "rising-risk" patients, those who are not yet high-cost but are likely to become so without intervention. By intervening earlier, the company aims to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and improve long-term outcomes, effectively expanding provider capacity for underserved populations.
Having now moved beyond early pilots, Waymark is scaling through value-based partnerships with Medicaid managed care organizations, working across tens of thousands of patients. While challenges remain in translating proven models to national scale, growing alignment among payers, providers, and policymakers around improving Medicaid outcomes provides strong tailwinds for continued adoption.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$22m
EARLY VC
Jan 2022
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $67m
Company HQ
Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rajaie Batniji
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Waymark, Rajaie co-founded Collective Health where he served as the Chief Health Officer for nearly 8 years. He also spent nearly 5 years as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Afia Asamoah
(Co-Founder, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Head of Strategic Alliances)Prior to co-founding Waymark, Afia was the Head of Legal at Google Health. She also spent nearly 4 years at Verily in various roles, including Senior Counsel.
Sanjay Basu
(Co-Founder, CMO & CTO)Sanjay is also an Internal Medicine Physician at the Integrated Care Center at HealthRIGHT 360, a role he has held since 2019. Previously, he was a Director of Research at the Center for Primary Care at Harvard University and a VP of Research and Population Health at Collective Health.
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