Associate, New Ventures

**About** W Health Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on helping build the future of healthcare delivery. Founded by serial technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist Sunil Wadhwani, W Health invests in and incubates early-stage companies that **address critical unmet healthcare needs **leveraging technology and AI in the US and India. **W Health has set up India’s first Venture Studio called 2070 Health**: - an innovation platform that builds transformative healthcare companies from scratch by discovering disruptive opportunities in healthcare. Distinct from the venture capital and accelerator approach, our venture studio will be closely involved in idea generation, day-to-day operations, and strategic decisions of growing the new business. **Details**: **Position**:Associate, New Ventures **Experience**: > 5 Years **Location**:Mumbai/ Bangalore/ Delhi **Responsibilities**: **1. Op**portunity assessment and ideation** - Explore and analyze markets and trends in health tech to identify areas ripe for disruption - Identify and network with start-up ecosystems and experts in the healthcare/ health-tech domain - Help develop innovative business plans to fill key gaps in the health-tech space - Validate a well-formed thesis through user (patient, doctor) interviews, digital marketing experiments, and literature review **2. Validation and launch** - Support financial analysis and modeling to evaluate business viability and sustainability - Work on Investment Committee pitch decks for identified opportunities and present at IC meetings - Liaison with clinical and product teams to devise pilot experiments, product strategy, and roadmap - Liaison with product and marketing team to define success metrics and tracking - Launch pilot experiments with clear stage gates for funding. **3. Operationalization and repeatability** - Provide ongoing strategic support, including the development of strategic and operational KPIs - Identify best practices for idea validation, launch and financing from other global venture studios - Design playbook for repeatability in identifying, building, and scaling ventures **Requirements**: - You have experience in a 0-1 startup, or strategic operations role & have managed a team - You have strong analytical skills and critical thinking (we will be doing a lot of ideation and brainstorming) - You have strong communication skills (we will be speaking with experts, senior leaders, and users everyday) - You are comfortable with ambiguity, work by first principles, and have exceptional problem-solving skills - You have a self-driven, can-do attitude and willing to take initiative & iterate. - You have knowledge or interest in digital health (preferred, but not required) - You have comfort working with cross-functional team and have been a part of growth teams - You understand how a startup works and have a fail fast mentality **Benefits** **And here is why we think this is an amazing opportunity**: **1. Numerous on-the-job-and-beyond learning opportunities** - You will work on/interact with multiple ideas, start-ups, and products in a zero-to-one and one-to-infinity setting. - You will get the opportunity to build deep fundamental expertise across various business functions **2. **Trust over control** - You will have strong ownership of and stake in all critical decisions across ventures **3. **Be a part of a growing team** - You will get to build the next wave of digital health disruptions in a risk-adjusted environment - You will get the opportunity to build deep fundamental expertise across various business functions. - You will network with key leaders in the traditional and digital healthcare ecosystem in India and the US - More importantly, you will have the opportunity to drive better healthcare outcomes and make a lasting impact.