Founder-in-Residence, AI HealthTech – Pathway to SRH Director Full Time

Founder-in-Residence, AI HealthTech

Pathway to SRH Director

Location: Flexible / Hybrid

Type: Full-time

AINAD is looking for a Founder-in-Residence to help build the next generation of AI-enabled healthtech solutions in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).

This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial operator who wants to work at the intersection of clinical insight, digital innovation, and venture creation. You will identify high-impact opportunities, validate real-world problems, shape early product concepts, and help develop solutions that improve access, quality, efficiency, and patient experience across SRH and HIV care.

This role is designed for someone who wants to build first and lead next. Over time, the successful candidate may transition into a long-term leadership role as SRH Director, helping shape strategy, partnerships, product direction, and category leadership.

What you’ll do

• Identify opportunities where technology can improve SRH and HIV services.
• Conduct discovery with clinicians, providers, service leaders, and community stakeholders.
• Translate insight into product ideas, workflows, and venture opportunities.
• Work with product, design, and engineering teams to test and refine MVPs.
• Help assess clinical, governance, privacy, safeguarding, and adoption considerations.
• Support pilots, partnerships, and early go-to-market efforts.
• Help shape the future SRH and HIV healthcare function within the business.
• Contribute to go-to-market planning, positioning, and stakeholder engagement in a complex and sensitive care domain.Help build the foundations for a future SRH and HIV function, including specialty credibility, external relationships, and strategic direction.
• Support tender responses, proposals, business cases and strategic partnerships.

What we’re looking for

• Proven entrepreneurial experience, ideally as a founder, co-founder, or early-stage operator.
• Strong interest in AI healthtech and a deep appreciation for SRH and HIV care.
• Ability to engage credibly across clinical, operational, and community contexts.
• Strong product thinking and comfort working across technical and commercial domains.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• High ownership, resilience, and comfort with ambiguity.

Preferred experience

• Background in women’s health or adjacent clinical pathways.
• Understanding of clinical governance, workflow design, or AI-enabled products.
• 10+ years of recent leadership experience in SRH, digital health, medtech, healthtech, or government‑facing roles.
• Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams (clinicians, engineers, researchers, executives).
• High credibility in executive, clinical, and government settings, especially within long‑cycle stakeholder engagements.
• Proven ability to translate clinical or operational insights into commercial and strategic outcomes.
• Proven ability to navigate complex procurement pathways and multi‑stakeholder healthcare environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical programmes, governance activities, or safety‑critical initiatives within healthcare or digital health.
• Exposure to venture building, startup studios, or fundraising.

About AINAD

AINAD is redefining what it means to tackle global challenges by bringing advanced technologies, especially AI, SaaS, and digital innovation, directly into the heart of sectors that matter most: sustainability, health, education, and fintech.

We don’t just build startups; we co-create high-impact ventures that address the world’s toughest problems. Our strength lies in hands-on venture building: from ideation and MVP development to market validation and growth, we work side-by-side as part of founding teams, providing strategic guidance, technical expertise, and a global network.

At AINAD, we’ve developed a repeatable platform for venture creation designed to de-risk execution and maximise success potential. We are building ventures that combine commercial ambition with meaningful real-world impact.

Why join us

• Build from zero to one in a high-impact area of healthcare.
• Work closely with an ambitious, hands-on founding team.
• Help shape the future of SRH and HIV services across the UK.
• Join a role with real pathway potential into founding and leadership.

How to apply

If you are excited by the chance to build something meaningful in healthtech and shape the future of SRH and HIV care, we would love to hear from you.

Send your CV or LinkedIn profile, along with a short note on why this opportunity interests you to hr@ainadventures.com.