CEO & Founder - SaaS Nurse Scheduling

High Alpha Innovation partners with the world’s leading organizations to innovate through startup creation. Part strategy consultancy, part venture studio, 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 cloud-based software platform that provides a truly differentiated solution to the challenge of Nurse Scheduling, centering the nurse and nurse manager experience and targeting both functional and social/emotional needs of users. StealthCo is not just building a scheduling algorithm, but instead will allow nurses to take control of their schedule and help to generate a balanced schedule that works for the entire team. The goal of StealthCo is to produce schedules that improve the overall process in a transparent, nurse-led way, resulting in increased nurse satisfaction and decreased likelihood of call-outs.

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 have the opportunity to turn the validated concept for StealthCo into a growing, important, and durable business, from the ground up. As CEO, you will work to build conviction with the market, investors, and early customers as you bring the product to market. You’ll be defining 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.

Requirements

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 managing 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 enterprise relationships across key healthcare segments
• Develop strategic relationships with channel and distribution 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 top executive leaders from the healthcare space.
• Drive operations and operational rigor, including full P&L and cash flow management.
• Create and sustain a great company culture with articulated values that provides inspired leadership and enables a great working relationship to the team across all levels.

What You'll Need:

• Deep knowledge and passion for the lived experience of shift-based bedside care providers in a hospital setting
• First hand experience with the hospital/health system enterprise software sales cycle, including navigating procurement and contracting processes, and complying with relevant privacy and security standards
• Product expertise, and a proven track record of creating clinician user experiences that are sticky, drive adoption, and satisfy & delight users
• 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, including verbal pilot commitments
• Pre-seed funding committed by our health system 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