Founding Growth & Strategy Lead - Optexity (USA)

The role

This is a hands-on operator role working directly with the founders to own partnerships, developer community, recruiting, and market research. You will build growth playbooks and drive results for a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models.

What you will do

• Build relationships with private equity firms active in healthcare
• Develop long-term relationships with hospitals and clinics
• Build a developer-adoption strategy
• 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
• Own ambiguous, cross-functional projects

Required qualifications

• Comfortable with a wide-open mandate
• 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

Benefits

• Direct, daily work with the founders
• Exposure to board and investor conversations
• True zero-to-one scope
• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity

About the company

Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models. The small, fast-moving founding team is backed by investors like Jeff Dean, Neotribe VC, PearVC, Together Fund and Zapier Fund.