Full-Time

Principal - Strategic Marketing Programs

Marketing Leadership

Posted on 9/19/2025

Paytient

Paytient

51-200 employees

Payroll-integrated financing for medical costs

No salary listed

Columbia, MO, USA

Remote

Category
Growth & Marketing (2)
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Required Skills
Sales
Requirements
  • 10-12+ years of progressive, diverse experience in B2B or B2B2C marketing roles, ideally with product marketing, partnerships and/or growth experience.
  • Proven success in building and scaling marketing programs with external partners that deliver results and consumer value.
  • Experience in a complex industry such as healthcare, FinTech, SaaS, or benefits.
  • Experience in building GTM strategies, partnering with Product and Sales teams to bring them to life.
  • An ability to understand our audiences, what their needs and pain points are, and the full sales cycle and the specific content and insights required to accelerate it.
  • Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into simple, powerful messages.
  • Tenacity and a collaborative and proactive mindset, with a proven ability to work autonomously through ambiguity and cross-functionally with sales, product, and leadership.
Responsibilities
  • Identify opportunities to monetize the value Paytient creates across the healthcare value chain - Providers, Employers, Pharma, Pharmacies - in ways consistent with our mission, enabling people to pay lower prices for care.
  • Develop, manage, and mature a business development and partnership pipeline that effectively prioritizes potential opportunities both in revenue impact and in how they deliver tangible value back to our members and partners.
  • Commercialize high-impact partnerships, leading the GTM strategy end-to-end, from program architecture, pricing, positioning, messaging, and program launch in the market.
  • You will closely measure impact of initiatives with qualitative and quantitative KPIs that effectively assess the efficacy of new programs relating to company objective and goals.
  • Lead affiliate and partnership marketing to maximize revenue/life potential and attract more affluent members to use Paytient, further demonstrating Paytient is a product for how all people pay for care more intelligently.
  • Cultivate relationships and craft stories that are accretive to our thought leadership and brand/content marketing strategy.
  • You’ll actively seek out areas of untapped potential across the marketing organization and company and dive in to help shape emerging areas or strategies.
  • Flex as a marketing leader across the team. You’ll be a crucial leader to give the marketing team leverage and explore domains that are nascent and develop strategy where it does not yet exist. You’ll work with teams to support delivery of Paytient-wide company goals and business results.
  • Partner with the CMO in a 'chief of staff' capacity to help with special projects, strategic planning, etc.

Paytient offers a payroll-integrated platform that helps employees manage out-of-pocket medical costs by setting up flexible repayment plans. It works through partnerships with employers and insurers, integrating with payroll to collect repayments over time instead of upfront payments at care moments. Unlike standalone financing, Paytient embeds this benefit within health plans via employer/insurer collaborations to ease short-term financial burden and boost satisfaction. The goal is to reduce healthcare financial stress, improve well-being and productivity, and support employer retention by making medical costs more affordable over time.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$84.4M

Headquarters

Columbia, Missouri

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Secured $40M from Trinity Capital in 2025 to expand into ACA and Medicare markets.
  • Serves 23M members and 6,000 employers including Anthem, Centene, Cigna by 2025.
  • Launched Paytient Care telehealth and added Dayne Williams to board for growth.

What critics are saying

  • CFPB classifies HPA as consumer credit, imposing bank-level compliance in 12 months.
  • UnitedHealth embeds native payments, undercutting Paytient partnerships in 18 months.
  • Recession spikes defaults on HPAs, absorbing losses in 2026.

What makes Paytient unique

  • Paytient's HPA offers interest-free credit up to $10k for medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, mental health, and vet care.
  • HPA integrates seamlessly with payroll systems like Paychex and Paylocity without credit checks.
  • Paytient provides transaction insights into employee healthcare spending for benefit optimization.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Company Match

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

6%

2 year growth

11%
PR Newswire
Jun 3rd, 2025
Paytient Secures $40 Million from Trinity Capital to Fuel Market Expansion

/PRNewswire/ -- Paytient, the healthcare payments company helping people better access and afford care, has secured $40 million from Trinity Capital, a trusted...

Yahoo Finance
Jun 3rd, 2025
Paytient Secures $40M for Expansion

Paytient has secured $40 million from Trinity Capital to support its expansion into large group employer-sponsored plans, alternative health plans, the ACA marketplace, and Medicare. The funding will help Paytient enhance its cost-smoothing solutions, which are becoming standard in health plan benefits. Paytient currently serves over 23 million members and partners with nearly 7,000 employers, insurers, and providers. The company aims to make cost-smoothing a standard part of every health plan.

Paytient
Apr 15th, 2025
Welcoming Dayne Williams: A Proven Leader in Health Benefits Joins Paytient's Board

Paytient is pleased to announce the appointment of Dayne Williams to its Board of Directors.

IBS Intelligence
Jan 12th, 2023
Paytient raises $63m to help Americans access and afford healthcare

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