CEO/Co-Founder - Opioid Use Disorder SaaS Platform

Location: North Carolina. (This is a remote position but the candidate must be located within North Carolina)

High Alpha Innovation partners with the world’s leading organizations to innovate through startup creation. Part strategy consultancy, part venture studio, our team is a diverse mix of highly-experienced company builders, designers, and strategists who work with corporate and university partners to source, launch, and invest in venture studios and startups.

We are seeking a world-class entrepreneur for the role of CEO and Co-Founder for our newest company, Goldie Health. The Goldie Health platform will enable remote community health workers to treat patients, access protocols, best practices and manage ongoing engagement. Initial go-to-market in opioid use disorder (OUD) will support both community paramedics and peer support specialists serving their patients in the field. With Goldie Health, post-overdose response teams can help more patients break the OUD cycle. Breaking that cycle saves lives, rebuilds families, and improves our communities. Goldie transforms the work by automating manual documentation and tasks, producing evidence of results, supporting collaboration across counties and building more informed lessons about best practices. Three North Carolina counties have committed as pilot sites with an initial launch scheduled for the Summer of 2024.

Post OUD the platform is designed to extend to Aging in Place, Remote Mental Health support, Remote infusions and a variety of other use cases being addressed by the growing body of distributed health workers. The right fit for this expansive role is someone who is located in North Carolina, is passionate about the opioid crisis and wants to make a difference by building user-friendly platforms. We are looking for a CEO who has experience building healthcare/government SaaS platforms, driving the product roadmap and building conviction in the market with customers and investors.

The right CEO will work to build conviction with the market, investors, and early customers as you bring the product to market. You will also set the go-to-market strategy and get the MVP into the hands of early customers. This is a unique opportunity to be a creator, builder, and innovator to build a world-class product from scratch.

The concept for Goldie Health was developed in partnership with the Eshelman Innovation Venture Studio in the University North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Eshelman Innovation, as part of its long term vision to drive cutting edge technologies that solve the most pressing healthcare challenges. We also partnered closely with healthcare practitioners in the field supporting individuals with use disorders, including at Western North Carolina’s Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) and Buncombe County North Carolina’s Post-Overdose Response Team (PORT).

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a leader and co-founder to shape corporate strategy and company vision while building conviction in the market, with investors, and customers
• Drive growth, profitability and company value while implementing scalable and efficient strategies to ensure consistent results and exponential growth
• Align resources to achieve key business goals and milestones
• Own the operational budget and managing burn rate and runway
• Report updates to the Board of Directors and corporate stakeholders regarding progress on strategic goals
• Assist with creating and executing a fundraising strategy to drive interest from outside VC investors
• Set the vision for the company and define the overall strategy from launch to scale.
• Structure a thoughtful organizational hiring plan and recruit, retain & develop world-class talent against that plan.
• Drive strategy and decision-making across all functional areas, including business development, product, marketing & content, operations, and finance.
• Determine the highest-order KPIs and build the plan and team to measure, monitor, and improve them.
• Lead all fundraising activities to support growth objectives in partnership with High Alpha Innovation.
• Develop a comprehensive framework for initiating and supporting relationships across the healthcare and government industries
• Develop strategic relationships with development and channel partners to further Goldie’s offering.
• Design, execute and continually iterate go-to-market strategies.
• Assist in defining, evaluating, and evolving the product roadmap by identifying new opportunities and gaps through strategic relationships with healthcare workers
• Drive operations and operational rigor, including full P&L and cash flow management.
• Create and sustain a great company culture with articulated values that provides inspired leadership and enables a great working relationship to the team across all levels.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in selling SaaS products and building high performing teams
• Experience or exposure to software business models, ideally with experience in health tech or government tech 
• A passion and vision for working with first responders and those suffering from opioid addiction 
• Founder experience is preferred or experience working in an early stage venture backed company in a key leadership role 
• Venture capital fundraising experience preferred or other relevant experience across sales, negotiations or corporate development 
• Strong track record of tackling difficult challenges, a strong work ethic and desire to build a high growth company
• An entrepreneurial mindset along with the grit and determination to scale a company from scratch 

Benefits

• Salary plus equity plan 
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance 
• A company provided laptop, plus a monthly technology stipend to help cover additional working expenses 
• Flexible work location within the state of North Carolina 
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
• A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team, including pilot commitments 
• Pre-seed funding committed by our university partner 
• The support of the venture studio and platform services, we surround the startup with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company