Founder and Chief Executive Officer Robotics Healthcare
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About the Role
Lead the creation of NightWatch, a robotics and remote-monitoring venture for senior living, from thesis through pilots, commercialization, team building, and fundraising.
Requirements
- Have founded or operated a hardware, robotics, or hardware-as-a-service product from zero to one
- Know US senior living, CCRC operations, eldercare, or enterprise facilities operations
- Navigate multi-site enterprise sales cycles and convert pilots into fleet rollouts
- Reason about robotics, sensing, edge compute, and unit economics
- Operate effectively in ambiguity
- Build credibility with care operators and venture investors
- Be willing to work on the ground in the United States
Responsibilities
- Define the initial operator profile and three-state cluster for concurrent pilots
- Develop the night-patrol robot and remote-monitoring layer with robotics teams
- Win two to three CCRC or senior-living operator pilots
- Demonstrate FTE substitution while maintaining service levels
- Position the purchase as an ROI and redeployment decision for CFOs and COOs
- Improve the robots-to-operator ratio and reduce unit costs
- Hire the initial team
- Raise capital
- Establish the venture as an automation layer for senior living
Benefits
- Equity in the new venture
- Access to venture-building, specialist, and accelerator support
- Founder stipend of $6,675 per month
- $128,000 ring-fenced build budget
- Embedded venture studio team and specialist support
- 70% founding team equity at incorporation
- $320,000 cash investment into the new venture