Senior Director, Applied AI

Redesign Health•New York, NY

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Redesign Health is seeking an ambitious, self-initiated, product-minded Senior Director, Applied AI to build agentic workflows that power the firm's most important decisions, including founder selection, concept pursuit, hiring, investor relations, and healthcare partner support. This role involves transforming complex business workflows into scalable, self-learning systems that compound the firm's impact. The successful candidate will operate with the ownership of a founder and the judgment of an investor, staying current with frontier AI research and continuously refining their skills. They will join a global team of former founders, architects, and research scientists in a high-leverage position, working alongside senior technical and business leaders. The role may involve hiring and managing additional engineers.

Requirements

10+ years in a senior technical role at a major venture-backed startup, frontier AI lab, or investment firm.
Expertise in Python and/or TypeScript, with experience writing and reviewing millions of lines of code.
Proficiency with modern agent frameworks (Lang / Deep Agents, the Anthropic Agent SDK, or similar) and experience shipping production systems on top of them.
Experience building or materially modifying agent harnesses: custom tools or agentic CLIs, MCP servers, durable and sandboxed execution, observability, and self-learning loops.
Experience building stateful, long-horizon agentic systems beyond basic RAG, including managing evals, context engineering, and failure modes.
Have completely reinvented your workflow around AI, building sophisticated systems on top of coding agents and writing minimal code by hand in over a year.

Nice To Haves

Founding a company and building a product from 0-1.
Meaningful time spent inside a VC or similar investment firm.
Pre-LLM background in machine learning, knowledge graphs, semantic search.
Experience building CRM-like intelligence products such as enterprise RevOps or recruiting software.
A creative or athletic outlet, a family business, or service to which you've devoted time, thought, and effort.

Responsibilities

Design and ship AI systems to redefine healthcare investing as a technical discipline, unlocking insights from healthtech venture knowledge.
Embed with investment, talent, and global development teams to solve problems in deep research, alternative people and organizational data, and human-agent interaction.
Raise the technical sophistication of the firm and its offerings to founders, portfolio companies, and healthcare partners.
Build durable, long-horizon agents that combine complex human judgment with context engineering and self-improving feedback loops.
Invent new AI applications and potentially publish, open-source, and share learnings.
Teach the organization about AI's capabilities and contribute reusable patterns to core systems.
Help teammates and portfolio companies understand how to build in an AI-native world.
Source, assess, inspire, and close exceptional founders, supporting them in building transformative health technology companies.
Create global patient impact by building companies that serve millions of patients and providers.