Founder & CEO - Medical Imaging SaaS

Founder & CEO

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.

Our newest company that is currently in Stealth Mode is seeking a CEO & Co-Founder. This StealthCo. will build a new solution based on university IP that harmonizes medical images. This StealthCo will build a software platform that ingests a high-resolution, thin-slice CT image file from any modality unit and creates the flexibility to construct, format, and present harmonized images that are tailored to the specifications of any radiologist, researcher, or AI tool.

You’ll work closely with the professor who ideated the concept and the internal High Alpha Innovation team to establish and scale this new company. 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 founder, you will be responsible for building a big, important, durable business from the ground up. As the 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. 

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

What You'll Need:

• Demonstrated experience in selling SaaS products and building high performing teams
  • Experience or exposure to digital health business models, ideally in the radiology or medical/surgical imaging space
  • Industry familiarity in radiology, radiation oncology, imaging CROs, medical imaging device manufacturer for healthcare, surgical imaging, or medical imaging software
• 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

What we offer: 

• A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team 
• Pre-seed funding committed by Varsity Venture Studio
• 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 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 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.