Aegis Ventures Hiring For Strategy And Operations Lead (ai Enabled Ophthalmology Diagnostic Solution) at New York, NY, United States Full Time

Job Description

About Aegis Ventures

Aegis Ventures is a next-generation startup studio that partners with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to originate, launch, and scale transformative companies. The Aegis platform brings together market-shaping ideas, permanent growth capital, and ambitious individuals who are driven to solve major societal problems. We aim to build companies with the capacity for vast impact, with an initial focus on two key areas: artificial intelligence and virtual care. Within these verticals, Aegis seeks to create companies that use technology to transform healthcare quality, access and cost, focusing on innovations that promote seamless continuity of care, patient empowerment, and better-informed clinical decision-making.

About the Role

Aegis Ventures and Northwell Health have recently partnered to create healthcare AI and virtual care companies. To date, our partnership has assembled a team of exceptional cross-functional leaders including expert clinicians, data scientists, technologists, commercial experts, and investors who have ideated and prototyped solutions that form the basis for exciting new health tech ventures. As we further expand, we are looking for a high-performing Strategy and Operations Lead (S&OL) to join one of our confidential portfolio companies focused on AI-enabled diagnostic solutions that use the eye as a window to healthcare.

As our portfolio companies refine business planning and pursue strategic growth, the S&OL will accelerate the company’s progress through these stages. This individual will be the dedicated quarterback overseeing key aspects of the company’s early-stage milestones, including refining our solutions to identify product-market fit, working with key project stakeholders to validate and operationalize business plans, onboarding senior management, and managing strategic projects. This role is an ideal growth opportunity for those who are galvanized by the prospect of taking novel, industry-shaping initiatives from early stage to scale and who aspire to develop a highly differentiated skillset around taking emerging businesses to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily project management to ensure working teams (e.g., commercial, technical, product, legal, branding, marketing) achieve their milestones
• Partner with stakeholders to refine the technical solution to achieve product-market fit and operationalize the company’s business plan
• Partner with Aegis studio talent leadership to support onboarding of the global management team for the company
• Coordinate across different workstreams to ensure the timely launch of the company
• Build iterative hypotheses through gathering and analyzing information from a wide variety of sources and use findings to synthesize actionable insights
• Develop and present cohesive, well-structured, presentations and memoranda that synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings
• Partner with key Northwell clinical and non-clinical stakeholders to advance company milestones
• Own relationships with key external stakeholders including vendors and others partners to advance the venture creation process

Candidate profile

• 5+ years of experience, with leadership in early-stage startups and/or healthcare innovation preferred (e.g., strategy and operations, consulting, investing)
• Experience working in medtech and regulated medical devices preferred but not required
• Experience working with large healthcare provider settings including but not limited to acute care, ambulatory care clinics, and primary care clinics
• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s in related field equivalent to experience
• Understanding of the US healthcare system, trends, and business preferred
• Foundational experiences in analytical and conceptual complexity with a track record of developing frameworks for tackling new and unfamiliar research areas
• Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to synthesize information to guide-decision making
• An active listener and humble team player seeking to continuously learn and grow from those around them

What you’ll gain

• Highly competitive compensation package, including a strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and the chance to earn upside
• Top-tier health, vision, dental, and commuter benefits
• Generous monthly health and wellness reimbursement
• Unparalleled exposure to new business building at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare
• The opportunity to help solve the industry’s most difficult and pressing problems, collaborating with world-class experts from healthcare academia and industry
• The chance to work with a highly talented, close-knit, team of world-leading mentors across clinical, technical, product, commercial, and investment backgrounds, who can act as a support network and sounding board throughout your entrepreneurial journey

Could this be you?

If you are a high-energy, strategy thinker, with an entrepreneurial disposition and a willingness to leave no stone unturned we would like to hear from you. This role will be based in New York City.