Venture Ecosystem Principal

About the Company:

Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies. We manage venture capital and venture buyout strategies, each powered by an AI operating system and team of leading technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Our venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—and provides first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through exit. Our venture buyout strategy partners with proven management teams through control investments and delivers outsized value by rewiring core products and workflows with AI.

Since inception in 2018, Redesign and our portfolio companies have touched the lives of more than 15 million patients, raised over $1.5 billion from premier institutional, sovereign, and strategic investors, and built distinctive partnerships with marquee healthcare organizations and senior leaders around the world.

Redesign is based in New York and has offices in Bengaluru, Los Angeles, and Riyadh.

About the Job:

As Venture Ecosystem Principal, you will play a pivotal role in building relationships with the early stage venture community to source founders, identify, develop, and structure co-build deals with venture partners, bring market insights to co-ideation processes with founders, and partner with our existing portfolio on strategic finance and capital markets efforts.

This is a highly visible and cross-functional role in which you will interact closely with founder sourcing, ventures research and co-ideation, the Investment Committee, the portfolio management team, as well as portfolio company CEOs and existing and prospective investors.

What you’ll do:

Venture Firm Relationship Building, Deal Development, & Sourcing:

• Build and own Redesign’s relationships with the venture community

• Identify dynamics in the evolving venture market and opportunities to partner on co-builds or existing deals

• Contribute thematic and market insights to research and co-ideation processes with founders as well as to existing portfolio company founders.

• Make recommendations for thematic white spaces of opportunity

• Source founders through venture ecosystem network building

• Close and structure co-build NewCo deals and bring in capital alongside existing pre-seed deals

Portfolio Engagement:

• Share market insights regarding strategic finance, benchmarks and fundraising/capital structure with existing portfolio companies

• Provide partnership and advice to portfolio company founders on venture firm relationship building and fundraising

• Build a roster of relationships and insights to benefit portfolio company fundraising processes

Venture Ecosystem Community Building & Thought Leadership:

• Host events and attend conferences with potential founders and venture partners

• Contribute to Redesign’s thought leadership in the early stage healthcare AI community

• Produce content to attract founders and venture co-build relationships

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of experience at a venture firm or a venture-backed company involved in deal/founder sourcing, deal closing, or startup fundraising

• An existing venture ecosystem network

• Fluency in financial modeling, valuation methodologies, and deal structuring

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Self-starter who is able to work independently and collaboratively

Skills:

• Action Oriented: You readily take action on new opportunities with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. You display a can-do attitude, and step up to handle tough issues

• Network Building: Deep connectivity to the venture ecosystem with a proven ability to build, nurture, and maintain meaningful relationships

• Manages Complexity: You ask the right questions to accurately analyze situations and uncover root causes to difficult issues. Through acquiring data from multiple and diverse sources, you are able to make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems

• Business Insights: You use knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in the market to guide your actions

• Technology Innovator: You have a track record of proactively leveraging AI and other emerging technology tools to create extraordinary productivity and impact within your role. You have built systems and workflows for yourself more sophisticated than basic ChatGPT/LLM usage and are constantly experimenting with new ways to use technology to disrupt yourself

Location: This role is ideally based in NYC with openness to the Bay Area.