Founding Growth & Strategy Lead - Optexity (USA)

Pear Vc
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with healthcare domain knowledge and experience in fast-moving startups working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with healthcare domain knowledge and startup experience in ambiguous, cross-functional environments
    — “Genuine interest in healthcare workflows, and the ability to learn the space fast
  • Individuals who thrive in small, fast-moving founding teams and can take ownership of evolving responsibilities
    — “We are a small, fast-moving founding team with multiple published papers in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR etc
  • Candidates who can build strategies from scratch rather than executing predefined playbooks
    — “this role looks different in month six than on day one

Things to consider

  • Requires a candidate willing to engage in unglamorous, high-value work with direct founder interaction
    — “Direct, daily work with the founders, plus exposure to board and investor conversations
  • This role demands deep relationship-building and structured thinking across multiple areas, not just one function
    — “Partnerships, developer community, recruiting, and market research all sit on the founders' plates today

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your ability to synthesize complex information and drive cross-functional outcomes
    — “Own ambiguous, cross-functional projects that need speed, judgment, and persistence
  • Demonstrate your capability to engage with developers and understand their needs in health AI
    — “Build a developer-adoption strategy: engage directly with developers building in health AI
  • Position yourself as a market researcher who can identify growth and partnership opportunities
    — “Run market research to find new avenues for growth and partnership
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • built relationships with private equity firms and hospitals
  • developed a developer adoption strategy
Typical background
hands-on operator experiencestrong communication and relationship-building

Skills & requirements

Required

Partnership DevelopmentDeveloper Community EngagementMarket ResearchRecruitingCross-functional Project ManagementAmbiguity Handling

Preferred

Venture Capital ExperienceHealthcare ExposureHealth AI Developer Relationships

About the role

Original posting from Pear Vc via Ashby

ABOUT OPTEXITY

Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models on data no other lab can reach. We deploy directly inside clinics and hospitals — including systems with no APIs, using integration infrastructure we've built and open-sourced — and in return become their preferred partner. That gives us proprietary clinical reasoning trajectories from practicing physicians, and a feedback loop between real patient encounters, our models, and the products built on top of them.

We're a small, fast-moving founding team with multiple published papers in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR etc and background from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, CMU, IIT.

We are backed by world-class investors and leaders like Jeff Dean, Neotribe VC, PearVC, Together Fund and Zapier Fund.

HOW WE WORK

  • Customer obsession — we start with the customer and work backwards
  • Intellectual honesty — ideas matter more than titles; we communicate directly and assume good intent, even in disagreement
  • Bias for action — we build and learn with customers rather than debate in the abstract
  • Extreme ownership — we own outcomes, not just tasks, and see problems through

About the role

This is not an EA role, and not a narrow sales or marketing role — it's a hands-on operator role for someone who can take an ambiguous business problem, structure it, and drive it to a result, working directly with the founders.

Why this role exists

Partnerships, developer community, recruiting, and market research all sit on the founders' plates today, alongside product and engineering. We need someone to own that surface area — not run a fixed playbook, but build one as they go.

What you'll do

  • Build relationships with private equity firms active in healthcare — especially those owning multi-location clinics or hospital groups — as a channel into the market
  • Develop long-term relationships with hospitals and clinics; understand their workflows and pain points before and during deployment
  • Build a developer-adoption strategy: engage directly with developers building in health AI, learn what they need, and turn that into adoption
  • 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 — and convert conversations into pipeline
  • Own ambiguous, cross-functional projects that need speed, judgment, and persistence — whatever matters most that week

What we look for

  • Comfortable with a wide-open mandate — this role looks different in month six than on day one
  • 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

What you get

  • Direct, daily work with the founders, plus exposure to board and investor conversations
  • True zero-to-one scope — company-building, not function-executing
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity

Source: Pear Vc careers (Ashby)

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