Co-Founder/CEO (SaaS, healthcare regulatory compliance space)

High Alpha Innovation partners with the world’s leading organizations to innovate through startup creation. Part strategy consultancy, part venture builder, our team is a diverse mix of highly experienced company builders, designers, and strategists who work with corporate and university partners to source, launch, and invest in venture studios and advantaged startups.

We are seeking a world-class entrepreneur for the role of CEO and Co-Founder for our newest company, which is currently in stealth mode (hereafter “StealthCo”). StealthCo is a SaaS platform that will help health systems drive a culture of compliance by providing regulatory insights and targeted communication tools that improve response time, reduce administrative burden, and optimize operational efficiency. The platform routes the right intelligence to the right people—whether it's compliance officers, legal teams, or operational leaders—ensuring that key stakeholders receive actionable information that directly impacts their roles. StealthCo’s mission is to empower health systems to transform regulatory compliance into an opportunity for advancement and innovation, rather than a burden, and eliminate the whiplash of constant process change felt by the frontlines.

You’ll be supported by the High Alpha Innovation team, who have seen exponential growth across a variety of SaaS platforms in multiple industries with successful exits along with the deep subject matter expertise, network, and credentials of the advising concept ideator. 

As the CEO and Co-Founder, you will be responsible for building a big, important, and durable business from the ground up. You will work to build conviction with the market, investors, and early customers as you bring the product to market. You will also set the go-to-market strategy and get the MVP into the hands of early customers. This is a unique opportunity to be a creator, builder, and innovator to build a world-class product from scratch. 

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a leader and co-founder to shape corporate strategy and company vision while building conviction in the market, with investors, and customers
• Drive growth, profitability, and company value while implementing scalable and efficient strategies to ensure consistent results and exponential growth
• Align resources to achieve key business goals and milestones 
• Own the operational budget and manage burn rate and runway
• Report updates to the Board of Directors and corporate stakeholders regarding progress on strategic goals
• Assist with creating and executing a fundraising strategy to drive interest from outside VC investors
• Set the vision for the company and define the overall strategy from launch to scale.
• Structure a thoughtful organizational hiring plan and recruit, retain & develop world-class talent against that plan.
• Drive strategy and decision-making across all functional areas, including business development, product, marketing & content, operations, and finance.
• Determine the highest-order KPIs and build the plan and team to measure, monitor, and improve them.
• Lead all fundraising activities to support growth objectives in partnership with High Alpha Innovation.
• Develop a comprehensive framework for initiating and supporting relationships across the healthcare industry and regulatory compliance verticals.
• Develop strategic relationships with development and channel partners to further StealthCo’s offering.
• Design, execute and continually iterate go-to-market strategies.
• Assist in defining, evaluating, and evolving the product roadmap by identifying new opportunities and gaps through strategic relationships with Chief Compliance Officers and Directors of Quality & Safety at target healthcare systems.
• Drive operations and operational rigor, including full P&L and cash flow management.
• Create and sustain a great company culture with articulated values that provide inspired leadership and enable a great working relationship to the team across all levels.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience selling software tools to hospitals and health systems
• Deep experience with the healthcare regulatory landscape, including how regulations are enacted, interpreted, and implemented across healthcare systems  
• Regulatory consulting experience in helping to interpret and estimate the impact of regulatory change on a hospital/health system based on the system’s specific needs
• A passion and vision for solving regulatory burden in healthcare and transforming it into an opportunity for innovation and growth. 
• Founder experience is preferred or experience working in an early-stage venture-backed company in a key leadership role
• Venture capital fundraising experience preferred or other relevant experience across sales, negotiations or corporate development
• Strong track record of tackling difficult challenges, a strong work ethic and desire to build a high-growth company
• An entrepreneurial mindset along with the grit and determination to scale a company from scratch

Benefits

• Salary plus equity plan

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance 
• Flexible work location within the United States 
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
• A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team 
• Pre-seed funding committed by our partner
• The support of the venture studio and platform services, we surround the startup with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company

What we value :

WE BUILD

We make decisions with imperfect information and quickly move forward. We take action. We are comfortable with discomfort, and we measure our results in terms of what we build.

WE ARE BOLD

We seek, uncover, and speak truth. We are endlessly curious, we dream big and we lead through vision. Our ideas change the world.

WE CREATE OPPORTUNITY

We aim to create as much opportunity for as many people as possible, and we believe startups are a powerful vehicle for doing so. By creating opportunity, we create joy for ourselves, our loved ones, our corporate partners, and if we’re doing it right -- the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

High Alpha Innovation is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not just accept diverse backgrounds, we celebrate them. Our company, the work we do, and our partners benefit from the value of a diverse team. No team member's value lies alone in their diversity, and because we value diversity so highly, we reiterate that all hiring and employment decisions are made on merit, performance, competence, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.