Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), AlphaLab

The EIR will work closely with AlphaLab founders and the accelerator team to support early-stage companies, particularly those focused on healthcare and life sciences. The role involves building strong relationships with company teams, helping founders identify and work through their most important business challenges, and bringing experienced operating judgment to decisions around commercialization, customers, partnerships, capital, and company strategy.

What You Will Do

The EIR will engage deeply with company teams, help founders identify what matters most, challenge assumptions, and work alongside teams to move critical initiatives forward. This includes participating in regular 1:1 company meetings, helping teams identify their most important near-term priorities, risks, and milestones, and providing candid, practical feedback on difficult company-building decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have significant entrepreneurial or early-stage operating experience in healthcare, life sciences, or a related field, with firsthand experience building or leading an early-stage company. They should have strong judgment around company strategy, commercialization, customer development, fundraising, partnerships, and go-to-market, as well as familiarity with industry-specific issues such as regulatory pathways, clinical validation, reimbursement, or healthcare stakeholder dynamics.

Requirements

• Significant entrepreneurial or early-stage operating experience in healthcare, life sciences, physical products, robotics, software, or a related field
• Firsthand experience building, leading, or holding a senior operating role in an early-stage company
• Strong judgment around company strategy, commercialization, customer development, fundraising, partnerships, and go-to-market
• Familiarity with industry-specific issues such as regulatory pathways, clinical validation, reimbursement, or healthcare stakeholder dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex businesses and help founders identify the decisions and actions that matter most
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and providing direct, thoughtful feedback
• Able to move fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Strong communicator who can build credibility and trust with founders
• Organized, collaborative, reliable, and able to operate effectively in a fast-moving accelerator environment