Platform Lead, KSA

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## About the Company Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health (SSRH) empowers founders to launch and scale transformative healthcare companies in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia represents one of the world's most promising opportunities for healthcare innovation. We support founders in launching world-class companies that benefit from Saudi Arabia's robust infrastructure, forward-thinking approach to innovation, and accelerating pace of progress. Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health is dedicated to launching AI-native healthcare ventures that transform how care is delivered and experienced. Like the startups we build, we embed AI deeply into all our operations, empowering our team to focus their creativity and expertise on the most complex challenges and high-impact opportunities. We're seeking curious, adaptable individuals who are excited to explore new ways of working, eager to constantly experiment, and committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible at the intersection of human ingenuity and artificial intelligence. ## About the Job As Platform Lead, you will play a central role in identifying exceptional founders and sourcing deals for SSRH to invest in. This strategic, hands-on position directly impacts patient outcomes, as well as the growth and success of SSRH, its founders and its community. Your responsibilities will span these key areas: 1. Attract, Engage with, and Assess High-Quality Founders: Identify top-tier founding entrepreneurs for SSRH to invest in, with such founders running independent portfolio companies following SSRH’s investment. 2. Building a robust brand through marketing and communications activities that reliably produce traction and founders. 3. Manage the founder platform and experience for SSRH founders following SSRH’s investment, coordinating the strategic support services SSRH provides to its portfolio companies. Redesign health is an AI native company, we expect you to leverage AI skills to support you with the above responsibilities. As an early member of SSRH, you will also contribute to building the operations and culture of our Saudi innovation platform. You’ll collaborate with U.S.-based counterparts, leverage Redesign’s existing infrastructure, and adapt strategies to the Saudi market. This role reports to the Senior Director of New Ventures in Riyadh. ## What Success Looks Like - SSRH is recognized nationally as the leading healthcare venture-building platform. - Two or more high-impact strategic partnerships established with Saudi government, enterprise, venture hubs/incubator entities in the 6 months. - A thriving founder community actively engaged through events, mentorship, and digital channels. - Increased visibility and positive sentiment around Redesign Health’s mission in the Kingdom (measured via engagement and PR reach). - A self-sufficient, high-performing Saudi Platform team that attracts the best founders and the best companies that serves as a model for future international funds ## What You’ll Do Attract, Engage With, and Assess High-Quality Founders - Design and implement a comprehensive founder strategy to engage with brilliant potential healthcare founders for SSRH to invest in. - Attract, engage with, and assess top founders by building a robust funnel of top tier founders to enter into due diligence with, via various mechanisms including brand and ecosystem development, active outbound, partnerships and events. - Conduct due diligence with the investment team to assess the founder and concept and prepare them for the Investment Committee. - Build and maintain a positive, professional founder journey selling founders on the value of Redesign. - Build and maintain relationships with government entities (e.g., Monsha’at, Ministry of Health, Vision 2030 programs), universities, accelerators, and corporate partners. - Organize strategic events such as Founder Salons, investor roundtables, and ecosystem workshops. - Identify collaboration opportunities for Redesign portfolio companies within the Kingdom (pilots, partnerships, regulatory pathways). Continued Founder Network Development - Proactively engage with founder talent through networking, relationship-building, and community engagement efforts to identify and nurture entrepreneurs for SSRH to invest in. Build the SSRH brand through marketing and communications activities - Position the Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health brand as a core contributor to Saudi Arabia’s innovation and healthcare ecosystem, also informing the healthcare tech and venture ecosystem on our company - Partner with the global Platform & Communicaitons teams to maintain consistency in tone, visual identity, and messaging. Lead market content creation and storytelling efforts across channels—including website, social media, newsletters, and press—to showcase studio successes, portfolio companies, and founder journeys. - Build partnerships with local media, influencers, and ecosystem players to amplify visibility and credibility within the Saudi entrepreneurship and innovation landscape. Plan and manage high-impact events, founder meetups, and ecosystem activations that bring the SSRH brand to life supporting the pipeline of founders. Manage the founder platform, strategic support services and experience for SSRH founders following backing by the Investment Committee - Collaborate with the rest of the SSRH team, as well as the Redesign Health global team, to onboard new founders to the SSRH platform and set them up for success - Coordinate the services the SSRH platform provides to the founder’s independent portfolio company ## What You’ll Need - 5+ years of relevant work experience ideally within a VC or startup, preferably in an international context - Prior experience as a start-up founder and/or investor is preferred, but not mandatory. - Excellent judge of top tier talent - Strong understanding of the KSA startup ecosystem. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment. - Superior communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels. - Fully fluent in Arabic and English. - Proven ability to build ecosystems and position an organization within a new market. - Excellent cross-cultural communication skills and comfort working across time zones and geographies. ## Who You Are - **Action Oriented.** You take initiative and drive results, proactively tackling challenges and opportunities. You move quickly and decisively, always focusing on achieving goals and making things happen. - **Manages Ambiguity.** You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of change, and are calm and productive, even when things are up in the air. - **Cultural Competence.** You navigate cultural differences with ease, showing respect and understanding for diverse perspectives. You adapt your communication and behavior to different cultural contexts, fostering inclusive and effective interactions. - **Effective Collaboration.** You work seamlessly with others, leveraging diverse strengths and perspectives, and proactively seek to understand and drive consensus among your stakeholders and colleagues. You foster a cooperative environment where all contributions are valued, driving team success through mutual respect and shared goals. - **Founder Fluent.** You speak the language of founders and understand how they think, build, and make decisions. You can quickly build credibility and rapport, engage as a thought partner, and assess what makes a founder and their vision compelling. - **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. ## 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.