New Ventures Principal

Redesign Health•New York, NY

14h

About The Position

Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm that builds next-generation healthcare companies. Its venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage, often before an idea is fully formed, and provides initial institutional capital, strategic leverage, and healthcare domain expertise. Redesign also operates a venture buyout strategy that partners with management teams and uses AI to improve products and workflows. Founded in 2018, Redesign and its portfolio companies have reached more than 15 million patients and raised over $1.5 billion. The company is based in New York, with offices in Bengaluru, Los Angeles, and Riyadh. The New Ventures Principal backs early-stage founders and helps develop healthcare ventures from initial concepts onward. The role calls for original investment thinking, strong judgment about founders and markets, and the ability to persuade exceptional entrepreneurs to build with Redesign. The Principal develops healthcare investment theses, sources and attracts founders, leads collaborative concept development and diligence through Investment Committee, and serves as the primary connection between portfolio founders and Redesign’s platform. The position is based in either New York City or San Francisco. The company describes its working principles as urgency on behalf of patients, effective use of AI, high talent standards, rigorous and respectful debate, continuous improvement, ambition, integrity, and a commitment to patient safety and partner trust.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 7 years of experience, with a significant portion in venture capital, company building, or early-stage investing.
Deep healthcare domain expertise and ability to develop original investment theses across care delivery, health technology, and healthcare services.
Fluency in business-model analysis, investment-thesis development, and financial modeling.
Deep connectivity to the startup ecosystem and a proven ability to identify and attract exceptional founders.
Ability to assess founder quality, including recognizing exceptional talent from non-standard backgrounds and maintaining high standards under pipeline pressure.
Ability to make timely decisions and quickly decline founders, concepts, or one’s own ideas when conviction is lacking.
Commercial judgment, including assessing stakeholder willingness to pay, unit economics, and scalability of business models.
Ability to pursue bold, high-upside concepts and make asymmetric investment bets.
Strong relationship-building skills and willingness to prioritize primary conversations with founders, investors, operators, clinicians, and payers.
Initiative, urgency, direct communication, and willingness to surface risks and close communication loops.
Founder-centered partnership approach, adapting to founders’ needs and pace.
Ability to use and build sophisticated AI systems and workflows for analytical and research tasks.

Nice To Haves

MBA, preferably with a record of high academic achievement.
Direct experience evaluating founders and making investment decisions from pre-seed through Series A.

Responsibilities

Identify healthcare market white space where AI-native businesses could create outsized outcomes.
Develop original investment theses based on market understanding, clinician pain points, and structural tailwinds; generate bold, differentiated, commercially viable concepts.
Validate theses through primary conversations with clinicians, operators, payers, and potential customers.
Draft collateral to attract founders to Redesign’s platform.
Proactively source exceptional founders and build networks that surface talent early; persuade founders that Redesign is the right partner for building a healthcare company.
Lead collaborative diligence and co-ideation to develop venture-scale business concepts and assess concept potential and founder-market fit.
Evaluate opportunities efficiently, including quickly declining concepts or founders when conviction is lacking.
Stress-test investment theses, identify and resolve the key questions for each investment through primary conversations and expert input, and present founders and concepts to the Investment Committee with clarity and an honest account of risks.
Build and maintain relationships with venture capital firms, healthcare incumbents, strategic investors, healthcare operators, and the broader startup ecosystem.
Serve as the primary interface between portfolio founders and Redesign’s platform, providing domain expertise, go-to-market acceleration, fundraising positioning, and governance insight.
Represent Redesign through a single non-controlling board seat where appropriate.
Build trusted relationships with founding teams, provide input when needed, and adapt involvement to founder needs.
Use AI systems for analytical and synthesis work such as market sizing, landscaping, competitive mapping, and secondary research; develop and experiment with sophisticated AI-enabled workflows.