Strategic Partnerships Lead – Home Health & Hospital Staffing

RYZ Labs

Nashville

Full-Time

Senior (7+ yrs)

Sales & Business Development

Leadership

Posted on December 9, 2025

Nashville - Fractional / Contract

About us

We're a Nashville-based healthcare sourcing + vetting engine for home health and hospital staffing. We deliver AI-vetted, ready-to-place long-term candidates faster than traditional recruiting teams.

Why this role

We need a senior industry insider with deep Nashville-area relationships to open doors to staffing firms, home health agencies, and home care placement companies — and turn those relationships into paid pilots and ongoing candidate-supply partnerships.

What you'll do

Activate your network to secure warm partner meetings quickly

Position our candidate-supply offering clearly and credibly

Lead partner conversations, pilots, and agreement negotiations

Help define "ready-to-place" standards by role and partner type

Stay close through early handoffs to ensure partner confidence and repeat usage

Success in first 90 days

8–12 warm partner meetings

2–3 paid pilots

1–2 ongoing partner agreements

A repeatable partner acquisition + handoff playbook

Who you are (deep experience)

10–20+ years in healthcare staffing

Proven history closing staffing partnerships/accounts

Real Nashville-area relationships you can activate immediately

Strong operator knowledge of credentialing/compliance expectations and long-term placement realities

High-autonomy, results-driven, comfortable in fractional roles

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.

- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.

- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility.

- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.

- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less.

- Deliver Impact - get things done most efficiently.

- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.

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