Founding Growth & Strategy Lead Optexity (USA)
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models on data no other lab can reach. We deploy directly inside clinics and hospitals including systems with no APIs using integration infrastructure weve built and open-sourced and in return become their preferred partner. That gives us proprietary clinical reasoning trajectories from practicing physicians and a feedback loop between real patient encounters our models and the products built on top of them.
Were a small fast-moving founding team with multiple published papers in NeurIPS ICML CVPR etc and background from Apple Amazon Microsoft CMU IIT.
We are backed by world-class investors and leaders like Jeff Dean Neotribe VC PearVC Together Fund and Zapier Fund.
Customer obsession we start with the customer and work backwards
Intellectual honesty ideas matter more than titles; we communicate directly and assume good intent even in disagreement
Bias for action we build and learn with customers rather than debate in the abstract
Extreme ownership we own outcomes not just tasks and see problems through
About the role
This is not an EA role and not a narrow sales or marketing role its a hands-on operator role for someone who can take an ambiguous business problem structure it and drive it to a result working directly with the founders.
Why this role exists
Partnerships developer community recruiting and market research all sit on the founders plates today alongside product and engineering. We need someone to own that surface area not run a fixed playbook but build one as they go.
What youll do
Build relationships with private equity firms active in healthcare especially those owning multi-location clinics or hospital groups as a channel into the market
Develop long-term relationships with hospitals and clinics; understand their workflows and pain points before and during deployment
Build a developer-adoption strategy: engage directly with developers building in health AI learn what they need and turn that into adoption
Source screen and run early conversations with candidates for open roles
Run market research to find new avenues for growth and partnership
Represent Optexity at industry events conferences and developer communities and convert conversations into pipeline
Own ambiguous cross-functional projects that need speed judgment and persistence whatever matters most that week
What we look for
Comfortable with a wide-open mandate this role looks different in month six than on day one
Strong communication and relationship-building with real follow-through
Excellent research synthesis and structured thinking
Operates in ambiguity without waiting for perfect instructions
Willing to do unglamorous high-value work
Genuine interest in healthcare workflows and the ability to learn the space fast
Nice to have
Venture capital or business/strategy team experience
Prior healthcare exposure
Existing relationships with developers in health AI
Experience in fast-moving startups
What you get
Direct daily work with the founders plus exposure to board and investor conversations
True zero-to-one scope company-building not function-executing
Competitive salary and meaningful equity