AI-Driven Founder Platform Lead

Redesign Health; Riyadh Region; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health in Riyadh seeks a Platform Lead to identify exceptional founders and source deals for SSRH to invest in. This strategic, hands-on role directly impacts patient outcomes and the growth of SSRH, its founders and its community.

You will work with the Saudi market, leveraging AI and Redesign's infrastructure to attract top founders, build partnerships, and drive a vibrant founder ecosystem across the Kingdom.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience ideally within a VC or startup, preferably in an international context.
• Prior experience as a start-up founder and/or investor is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Excellent judge of top tier talent
• Strong understanding of the KSA startup ecosystem.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Fully fluent in Arabic and English.
• Proven ability to build ecosystems and position an organization within a new market.
• Excellent cross-cultural communication skills and comfort working across time zones and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive founder strategy to engage with brilliant potential healthcare founders for SSRH to invest in.
• Attract, engage with, and assess top founders by building a robust funnel of top tier founders to enter into due diligence with, via various mechanisms including brand and ecosystem development, active outbound, partnerships and events.
• Conduct due diligence with the investment team to assess the founder and concept and prepare them for the Investment Committee.
• Build and maintain a positive, professional founder journey selling founders on the value of Redesign.
• Build and maintain relationships with government entities (e.g., Monsha’at, Ministry of Health, Vision 2030 programs), universities, accelerators, and corporate partners.
• Organize strategic events such as Founder Salons, investor roundtables, and ecosystem workshops.
• Identify collaboration opportunities for Redesign portfolio companies within the Kingdom (pilots, partnerships, regulatory pathways).
• Proactively engage with founder talent through networking, relationship-building, and community engagement efforts to identify and nurture entrepreneurs for SSRH to invest in.
• Position the Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health brand as a core contributor to Saudi Arabia’s innovation and healthcare ecosystem, also informing the healthcare tech and venture ecosystem on our company
• Partner with the global Platform & Communications teams to maintain consistency in tone, visual identity, and messaging. Lead market content creation and storytelling efforts across channels—including website, social media, newsletters, and press—to showcase studio successes, portfolio companies, and founder journeys.
• Build partnerships with local media, influencers, and ecosystem players to amplify visibility and credibility within the Saudi entrepreneurship and innovation landscape.
• Plan and manage high-impact events, founder meetups, and ecosystem activations that bring the SSRH brand to life supporting the pipeline of founders. Manage the founder platform, strategic support services and experience for SSRH founders following backing by the Investment Committee
• Collaborate with the rest of the SSRH team, as well as the Redesign Health global team, to onboard new founders to the SSRH platform and set them up for success
• Coordinate the services the SSRH platform provides to the founder’s independent portfolio company

Skills

Founder assessment

Brand development

Stakeholder management

Arabic & English fluency

AI usage

Job description

Sanabil Venture Studio by Redesign Health in Riyadh seeks a Platform Lead to identify exceptional founders and source deals for SSRH to invest in. This strategic, hands-on role directly impacts patient outcomes and the growth of SSRH, its founders and its community.

You will work with the Saudi market, leveraging AI and Redesign's infrastructure to attract top founders, build partnerships, and drive a vibrant founder ecosystem across the Kingdom.