Board of Director - Goldie Health (Pre-Seed Community Health/OUD Startup)

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 an Independent Board Member 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. 

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 passionate about the opioid crisis and has deep experience navigating healthcare/government policy.

The concept for Goldie Health was developed in partnership with the University North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Eshelman Institute for 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). 

As an independent board member you’ll work closely with the founders and High Alpha Innovation teams, who have seen exponential growth across a variety of SaaS platforms in multiple industries.

As a key member of Goldie Health’s three person board, you will be expected to attend all board meetings, engage with the founders and other board directors and actively contribute and vote on important matters as needed. As the founders work to bring their product to market, you will use your network to make introductions to potential customers and investors and help to build conviction in the market. You will use your network and position in the market to support the founders with their go-to-market strategy and customer acquisition.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as an independent board member and help the founding team to shape corporate strategy and company vision while building conviction in the market, with investors, and customers
• Ensure the founders are implementing scalable and efficient strategies to ensure consistent results and exponential growth
• Ensure the founders are aligning resources to achieve key business goals and milestones 
• Review the operational budget and financials and provide guidance to ensure the founders are effectively managing burn rate and runway
• Assist with creating and executing a fundraising strategy to drive interest from outside VC investors
• Provide feedback and ultimately approve a hiring plan to bring on world-class talent 
• Provide guidance and strategic feedback on all functional areas, including business development, product, marketing & content, operations, and finance.
• Work with the founders to cultivate relationships and introductions across EMS, mobile health and government customers

Requirements

• Experience serving as a board member for a public or private for profit organization
• Founder experience is preferred or experience working in an early stage venture backed company in a key leadership role
• Deep Expertise in mobile health, specifically within substance abuse disorder treatment or policy
• Deep empathy and a passion for solving problems facing patients suffering from OUD/SUD and the frontline clinicians providing treatment
• The ability to not only serve as a board member but also as a mentor and advisor to the founders
• Venture capital fundraising experience with connections to relevant investors is preferred 
• An entrepreneurial mindset with an understanding of what it takes to scale a company from scratch

Benefits

• An attractive equity package is available for this position. There is no cash or stipend offered at this time
• Remote opportunity with minimal travel required
• Opportunity to work with world class founders to mold and shape a go-to-market strategy to bring a new technology solution to market to solve a real world problem
• The support of the venture studio, we surround the founders and board with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company