🧬 Let's accelerate medical innovation
At Power, we're making clinical trials easy to navigate for all patients. Today, patients look to promising medical research when standard treatments have failed them. Unfortunately, there is no single source of truth that patients can understand and trust. The status quo is a government run website which is written in complex medical jargon that is impossible for most people to navigate. At the same time, clinical trials are the bottleneck on medical innovation—new medicine takes almost 10 years to test and over 86% of all clinical trials are delayed because they can't find enough patients. This is one of the biggest problems facing the life science industry. Power is the easiest way for patients to access promising new studies. Thus helping more patients find treatments and speeding up the progress of medical research as we go.
🏹 The role
We're building our foundational team and looking for a business development executive to leave their mark on Power. You'll have an immediate and direct influence on the growth of the business. Ideally, you're an entrepreneur at heart with experience partnering across pharma and CROs for clinical trial services. You’re tired of the status quo and believe it’s about time somebody did something about clinicaltrials.gov. Given how early we are, you'll have tremendous impact on:
🤔 Some of the problems we'll be working on
We don't believe in strict job requirements, but if these problems sound fun and familiar, you're probably well suited for this gig:
🔎 The product
Power is the only consumer-grade platform for clinical trials.
đź‘‹ The team
We're a team of experienced marketplace operators with backing from some of the best across health tech and pharma. Check out our team page
✉️ If this sounds like your kind of adventure
We'd love to hear from you. Email [email protected] In lieu of a cover letter, tell us about something you've built that you're proud about (or better yet, show us)!
âť“ FAQ
What is the culture like at Power? A few values stand out: urgency, selflessness, agency, obsession. We’re looking for owners, so we hope you’ll help us expand this list. Where is this role located? This role will be located in our SF office. Our San Francisco team is in office 4-5 days a week (Wednesdays are flexible). What are the requirements? Do I need certain years of experience, or a background in healthcare? We have no 'formal' experience requirement, but think it's important that our earliest team members are highly autonomous. Inversely, if you're at a point in your career where active mentorship is very important to you, this role likely isn't a fit for you. How is the work life balance? At the highest level: we trust team members to manage their own schedules and we believe that taking time off to recharge makes you more productive in the long run. The truth about early stage companies and small teams is that everyone’s work makes a big difference on the company’s trajectory. We’re not afraid to work hard if it’s impactful. Typically, we check out around 6pm to protect family time and then log-in later to finish anything that was left undone. How are you funded? Happy to share specifics but we've raised a large seed round from top investors. We've intentionally raised enough to comfortably get us through the messy 0 to 1 stage. How does your interview process look? We strive to make a decision in about two weeks. The last thing we want is to be wasting your time. We believe that it’s important you’ve had a chance to meet a number of folks on our team so you’re able to decide whether you’re going to like working with us. So we’ll work to make sure you’ve met 3 members of our team and our two founders. How big is this market? Clinical trial recruiting is $3B dollars annually. Total spend on clinical trial operations is $180B annually. Diversity is a priority for our team. Historically, clinical research has been terrible about including diverse populations. This is problematic because the efficacy and safety of medicine may differ by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. As a result, we draw healthcare conclusions that don’t actually reflect the outcomes for various groups (source). Power exists to empower all patients, and that starts with having a diverse team.
Salary
$55,000 - $140,000
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto + 1 more
Total raised
$19.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Michael 'Bask' Gill
Co-Founder
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.