Head of Product (Heddle Health)

Alloy Partners (formerly High Alpha Innovation) is a venture builder with a radical thesis: that we can build and scale advantaged companies in partnership with corporations and entrepreneurs. We believe we can unlock growth and transformation for our partners through startup creation. Venture building has the potential to address society’s biggest problems, and the world needs more new companies to tackle these global issues. Launching new startups with scaled organizations enables them to address those challenges head-on.

We are seeking a world-class Head of Product for Heddle Health, a native AI company in healthtech that has completed $1.1MM in pre-seed funding.

You'll be supported by Alloy Partners’ Go-to-Market (GTM) experts who have decades of collective experience guiding founders with their GTM motions and launch strategies: from securing early customers and investors to establishing product development and sales functions.

As the Head of Product, you'll be Heddle's first hire and drive our AI-native healthcare technology from concept to market-leading solution. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage deep AI expertise to navigate and shape the rapidly evolving technological landscape, designing cutting-edge product architecture that addresses critical healthcare challenges. Working closely with the CEO, you'll define the product roadmap, conduct customer research, and create a transformative platform at the intersection of AI and healthcare innovation. This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of technological change, building a breakthrough product that redefines healthcare technology.

What You'll Do:

• Define and drive product vision and roadmap
• Align product strategy with company goals
• Lead full product lifecycle from concept to delivery
• Stay at the forefront of AI innovation, continuously exploring emerging technologies, tools, and techniques
• Define a market-leading product with a future-proof architecture by leveraging the latest AI advancements
• Conduct direct customer research and requirements gathering
• Participate in sales presentations and customer meetings
• Translate complex technical capabilities into scalable solutions
• Manage agile development processes
• Integrate user and customer feedback
• Oversee product architecture and technology stack
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Build and mentor the initial product team
• Manage third-party integrations and APIs
• Implement product security and data protection processes

• 7+ years of work experience in hands-on architecture, coding, or product development 
• Successful track record as a hands-on Head of Product or similar product leadership role at a seed-stage startup in Health-Tech
•  Proven experience as a product owner, taking a product from 0 to 1 
• Proven track record of launching AI-native products with deep expertise in AI-driven product development
• Product expertise, and a proven track record of creating user experiences that are sticky, drive adoption, and satisfy & delight users
• Experience managing products with complex enterprise system integrations (e.g., Epic EHR)
• Direct supervision of agile software development; Business Requirements documentation and translation into executable development sprints, day-to-day team/scrum management
• Experience building teams from scratch as well as working with on-shore or off-shore development partners and budgets
• Desire and ability to be customer-facing, comfortable directly engaging customers at all levels; business rules documentation through to C-level sales presentations, with the ability to communicate complex subjects in a clear, concise manner 
• Comfortable working in an ambiguous, ever-changing environment; A creator who gets personal satisfaction from building from the ground up.
• Background in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or systems architecture.

• Salary plus equity plan
• Competitive health benefits
• This is an on-site position in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area, working from the office most days with occasional work-from-home flexibility.
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
• A highly validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team, including verbal pilot commitments 
• Pre-seed funding committed by our 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

What we value:

WE BUILD

We make decisions with imperfect information and quickly move forward. We take action. We are comfortable with discomfort, and we measure our results in terms of what we build.

WE ARE BOLD

We seek, uncover, and speak truth. We are endlessly curious, we dream big and we lead through vision. Our ideas change the world.

WE CREATE OPPORTUNITY

We aim to create as much opportunity for as many people as possible, and we believe startups are a powerful vehicle for doing so. By creating opportunity, we create joy for ourselves, our loved ones, our corporate partners, and if we’re doing it right -- the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Alloy Partners is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not just accept diverse backgrounds, we celebrate them. Our company, the work we do, and our partners benefit from the value of a diverse team. No team member's value lies alone in their diversity, and because we value diversity so highly, we reiterate that all hiring and employment decisions are made on merit, performance, competence, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.