New Ventures Principal
About The Role
As a New Ventures Principal, you will back exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—providing first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through launch and beyond. This role demands generative ideation, exceptional founder judgment, and the ability to sell world-class entrepreneurs on partnering with Redesign Health. You will develop original investment theses in healthcare, identify and attract top 1% founding talent, lead co-ideation and diligence through Investment Committee, and serve as the primary interface between portfolio founders and Redesign’s platform.
What You’ll Do
Thesis & Ideation: Identify white space in healthcare where AI-native businesses can create outsized outcomes. Develop original, high-conviction investment theses grounded in deep market understanding, clinician pain points, and structural tailwinds. Generate concepts that are bold, differentiated, and commercially viable. Validate theses through primary conversations with clinicians, operators, payers, and potential customers—not just desktop research. Draft compelling collateral that attracts world-class founders to Redesign’s platform.
Founder Sourcing, Selling & Co-Ideation: Find top 1% founders and convince them that Redesign is their best path to building a generational healthcare company. Build a network that surfaces exceptional talent before anyone else sees them. Demonstrate Redesign’s strategic leverage compellingly enough that founders choose us. Lead a collaborative diligence process (“co-ideation”) to transform thematic areas into venture-scale business concepts. Evaluate concept potential and founder-market fit with the judgment to say no quickly when conviction is lacking—time spent on mediocre opportunities is time away from exceptional ones.
Diligence & IC Delivery: Stress-test your own theses harder than anyone else will. Identify the 2–3 questions that truly matter for each investment and resolve them through primary conversations and expert input. Shepherd founders and concepts to the Investment Committee with clarity, speed, and honest representation of risks.
Network & Ecosystem Building: Develop a robust pipeline of exceptional founders through proactive sourcing across VC networks, healthcare operator communities, and the broader startup ecosystem. Build and maintain deep relationships with tier-one venture capital firms, healthcare incumbents, and strategic investors. Be the person that founders proactively seek out, VCs call for pipeline intelligence, and the industry turns to for a healthcare venture perspective.
Your network is a compounding asset—invest in it every week.
Portfolio Company Partnership: Act as the primary interface between portfolio founders and Redesign’s platform. Deliver the firm’s strategic leverage: 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 so they proactively seek your input—be the first person they call in a crisis.
What You’ll Need
Background: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred, with a record of high academic achievement. 7+ years of experience with a significant portion in venture capital, company building, or early-stage investing. Direct experience evaluating founders and making investment decisions at the pre-seed to Series A stage is strongly preferred. Deep healthcare domain expertise with the ability to develop original investment theses across care delivery, health tech, and healthcare services. Fluency in business model analysis, investment thesis development, and financial modeling. Deep connectivity to startup ecosystem with a proven ability to identify and attract generational founders.
Core Competencies: Founder Quality Obsession, Speed to Kill, Commercial Instinct, Big-Swing Thinking, Relationships Over Research, Drives Results, Radical Honesty, Partnership, Technology Innovator.
How We Work
Our company values are the standards and norms that shape how we make decisions, build teams, serve patients, and partner with one another. They define what you can expect from us and what we expect from every person who joins our team.
We share them openly so candidates can decide whether this way of working will bring out their best.
Patients are waiting: Work with the urgency that patients deserve.
AI sets the floor: Nothing short of what AI in expert hands can deliver; taste and judgment own the last mile.
Stack the team: Talent density is our greatest asset; raise the bar with every hire.
Trust people, challenge ideas: Assume good intent; never shy from rigorous debate.
Sweat your craft: Take pride in your work; seek feedback to continuously improve.
Go beyond: Your role, comfort zone, and expectations for what’s possible.
Be the partner you want: High integrity, responsive, and genuinely invested in shared success.
No shortcuts: Patient safety, clinical standards, and partner trust above all.
Where You’ll Work
This position will be based out of either NYC or San Francisco.