About the Company:
Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies. We manage venture capital and venture buyout strategies, each powered by an AI operating system and team of leading technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Our venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—and provides first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through exit. Our venture buyout strategy partners with proven management teams through control investments and delivers outsized value by rewiring core products and workflows with AI.
Since inception in 2018, Redesign and our portfolio companies have touched the lives of more than 15 million patients, raised over $1.5 billion from premier institutional, sovereign, and strategic investors, and built distinctive partnerships with marquee healthcare organizations and senior leaders around the world.
Redesign is based in New York and has offices in Bengaluru, Los Angeles, and Riyadh.
About the Job:
As Director of Platform, you will play a pivotal role in identifying exceptional founders for Redesign Health to partner with and build our presence in India. This strategic, hands-on position directly impacts patient outcomes, as well as the growth and success of Redesign and its founders.
Your responsibilities will span four key areas:
Attract, Engage with, and Assess High-Quality Founders: Create a system to identify top-tier founding talent for transformative healthcare ventures and to enable all the India team to source founders.
Continued Founder Network Development: Establish and grow a robust talent ecosystem for portfolio companies.
Building a robust brand through marketing and communications activities that reliably produce traction and founders.
Manage the founder platform and experience for founders leading the strategic support services Redesign Health provides to its portfolio companies.
Redesign health is an AI native company, we expect you to leverage AI skills to support you with the above responsibilities.
You will also contribute to building the operations and culture of our India innovation platform. You’ll collaborate with U.S.-based counterparts, leverage Redesign’s existing infrastructure and playbooks, and adapt strategies to the India market.
What you’ll do:
Attract, Engage With, and Assess High-Quality Founders
Design and implement a comprehensive founder sourcing strategy that addresses the needs of our founder ecosystem engaging the India fund team to source founders, laying the foundation for a thriving RH India Founder Ecosystem.
Attract, engage with, and assess top founders by leveraging innovative sourcing strategies, targeted outreach, and competency-based evaluation frameworks.
Build and maintain a positive, professional founder journey that reflects Redesign Health’s values and mission, ensuring every founder interaction reinforces the organization's reputation and appeal.
Continued Founder Network Development
Proactively engage with founder talent through networking, relationship-building, campus partners, and community engagement efforts to identify and nurture future partners.
Cultivate Redesign Health’s reputation as the leading healthcare venture firm in India by crafting a compelling brand narrative that resonates with top founder talent and startup executives.
Provide regular updates and insights to Redesign Health leadership, offering transparency on recruitment progress, challenges, and emerging opportunities to ensure alignment and strategic decision-making.
Partner with our Global Marketing team to build the Redesign Health India Brand
Leverage our core brand and brand philosophy to build out India specific channels to make Redesign Health the healthcare VC of choice for those in the earliest stage of building.
Partner with our founders post investment to help enable their success
Programmatically build out the India platform for founders from vendors to talent introductions leveraging the global tech and templates in place.
What you’ll need:
8+ years of experience, ideally in venture capital or 0-1 startup, with a proven ability to identify and connect with startup founders, preferably in an international context.
Strong understanding of the Indian startup talent market and cultural nuances.
Excellent founder identification, engagement, and assessment skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
Superior communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
Experience working in a start-up or high-growth company is a plus.
Fully fluent in English.
Who you are:
Action Oriented.
You take initiative and drive results, proactively tackling challenges and opportunities. You move quickly and decisively, always focusing on achieving goals and making things happen.
Manages Ambiguity.
You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of change, and are calm and productive, even when things are up in the air.
Cultural Competence.
You navigate cultural differences with ease, showing respect and understanding for diverse perspectives. You adapt your communication and behavior to different cultural contexts, fostering inclusive and effective interactions.
Effective Collaboration.
You work seamlessly with others, leveraging diverse strengths and perspectives, and proactively seek to understand and drive consensus among your stakeholders and colleagues. You foster a cooperative environment where all contributions are valued, driving team success through mutual respect and shared goals.
Technology Innovator:
You have a track record of proactively leveraging AI and other emerging technology tools to create extraordinary productivity and impact within your role. You have built systems and workflows for yourself more sophisticated than basic ChatGPT/LLM usage and are constantly experimenting with new ways to use technology to disrupt yourself.
How We Work:
Our company values are the standards and norms that shape how we make decisions, build teams, serve patients, and partner with one another. They define what you can expect from us and what we expect from every person who joins our team. We share them openly so candidates can decide whether this way of working will bring out their best.
Patients are waiting:
Work with the urgency that patients deserve.
AI sets the floor:
Nothing short of what AI in expert hands can deliver; taste and judgment own the last mile.
Stack the team:
Talent density is our greatest asset; raise the bar with every hire.
Trust people, challenge ideas:
Assume good intent; never shy from rigorous debate.
Sweat your craft:
Take pride in your work; seek feedback to continuously improve.
Go beyond:
Your role, comfort zone, and expectations for what’s possible.
Be the partner you want:
High integrity, responsive, and genuinely invested in shared success.
No shortcuts:
Patient safety, clinical standards, and partner trust above all.