CEO and Co-Founder – Ambient AI for Infection Prevention

Alloy Partners

CEO and Co-Founder for an AI platform enhancing infection prevention in hospitals. Start-up role in pioneering technology for healthcare systems with academic partnerships.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Execute the design partnership — navigate clinical, IT, legal, and procurement stakeholders to build, deploy, and validate the MVP in pilot ICU units, and convert the design partner relationship to a commercial agreement
Recruit and partner with a technical co-founder with expertise in computer vision, ambient AI, and healthcare platform engineering to build and evolve the product
Develop and execute a go-to-market strategy targeting academic medical centers and large regional health systems, building a pipeline beyond the initial design partner that supports a Seed fundraise within 18-24 months
Own the operational budget and manage burn rate and runway, aligning available resources to key business milestones
Create and execute a fundraising strategy to drive interest from outside venture investors at the Seed stage and beyond
Build a thoughtful organizational hiring plan and recruit, retain, and develop world-class talent against it
Assist the technical co-founder in defining, evaluating, and evolving the product roadmap by translating customer insights into product priorities
Develop a framework for building relationships across hospital systems, specifically with CNOs, Quality Officers, and Infection Prevention leadership, including channel partners that can extend StealthCo’s reach
Report progress on strategic goals to the Board of Directors and corporate stakeholders
Build a company culture with articulated values that attracts exceptional people and enables a strong, trust-based relationship with the founding team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Direct experience founding, leading, or operating a company that used ambient video feeds and computer vision AI to generate clinical or operational insights in a healthcare or enterprise environment
Proven track record selling enterprise software or AI solutions into large health systems or academic medical centers at the CNO, CMIO, or VP-level, including firsthand experience navigating multi-stakeholder procurement, pilot-to-scale progression, and committee approval processes
Founding experience at a venture-backed company, or a key commercial leadership role (VP or above) at an early-stage venture-backed health technology company with demonstrated revenue impact
Technical fluency sufficient to evaluate computer vision and healthcare AI talent, make credible product and architecture judgments, and hold substantive conversations with hospital IT and clinical informatics leadership
**Strong Differentiators**
Existing relationships with CNOs, Quality Officers, or Infection Prevention leadership at academic medical centers or large regional health systems
Experience navigating FDA regulatory pathways for AI/ML-based clinical decision support, including Licensed Practitioner Exemption (LPE) strategies and 510(k) clearance pathways
Domain experience in patient safety, hospital-acquired condition prevention, fall detection, pressure injury prevention, sepsis detection, or adjacent inpatient clinical AI applications
Prior venture-backed company exit, acquisition or IPO
Engagement with health system innovation communities including CHIME, HIMSS, APIC, or SHEA

Benefits

Comp & perks

Salary plus equity plan
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Flexible work location within the United States
A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team
Pre-seed funding committed by Notre Dame’s 1842 Fund
The support of Alloy Partners’ GTM team, surrounding the startup with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company

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Hard Skills & Tools

computer visionambient AIhealthcare platform engineeringenterprise software salesAI solutionsFDA regulatory pathwaysclinical decision supportproduct roadmap developmentoperational budget managementfundraising strategy

Soft Skills

leadershiporganizational planningrelationship buildingcommunicationstrategic goal reportingtalent recruitmentteam developmentnegotiationstakeholder managementculture building