Job Description
About Us Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team - Innovative Mission: We are developing a safe, healthcare-focused large language model (LLM) designed to revolutionize health outcomes on a global scale.
- Visionary Leadership: Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from leading institutions, including El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA.
- Strategic Investors: We have raised a total of $278 million in funding, backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
- World-Class Team: Our team is composed of leading experts in healthcare and artificial intelligence, ensuring our technology is safe, effective, and capable of delivering meaningful improvements to healthcare delivery and outcomes.
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We value in-person teamwork and believe the best ideas happen together. Our team is expected to be in the office five days a week in Palo Alto, CA, unless explicitly noted otherwise in the job description. About The Role We are hiring a VP, M&A to be a core member of HAI’s corporate development team. You will source, conduct due diligence, evaluate, and execute acquisitions across healthcare services and tech-enabled services. Near-term priorities include a roll-up strategy (patient access, triage, after-hours, scheduling), but the role will also work on partnerships, and selective divestitures/ JVs/ Carveouts as our strategy evolves.
What You'll Do: - Build segmented market maps and target lists across priority verticals; maintain a proactive pipeline and CRM.
- Develop investment theses and business cases (market sizing, positioning, synergy logic, execution risks).
- Cultivate relationships with founders, bankers, brokers, PE funds, and lenders.
- Lead cross-functional diligence (commercial, financial, legal, HR, tech/security, and—where applicable—clinical ops).
- Own models and investment materials: LBO/roll-up cases, purchase price bridge with WC peg & debt-like items, sources & uses tie-out, synergy cases/ramps, downside scenarios, and NPV/IRR.
- Partner with external advisors (QoE, legal, tax, insurance/RWI) and financing sources.
- Run end-to-end processes from IOI/LOI through close; drive workstreams, data rooms, and redlines.
- Stand up pragmatic Day-1/30/100 integration plans; coordinate TSAs and change management.
- Track value-creation levers (revenue expansion, SG&A optimization, WFM, vendor consolidation) and report results.
- Establish KPI dashboards and cadence for post-close performance (financial and operational).
- Manage risk registers and mitigation plans.
- Mentor analysts/associates; instill high-bar deal hygiene and documentation standards.
What You Bring Must-Haves: - 5+ years in private equity, independent sponsor, investment banking, or corporate development with multiple closed transactions (ideally including at least one or two roll-up or multi-site integration).
- Strong financial modeling and underwriting skills; comfort with debt financing and definitive documents.
- Healthcare services familiarity and working knowledge of HIPAA/BAA constructs; contact center exposure a plus.
- Excellent executive communication (written and verbal) and stakeholder management.
Nice-to-Haves - Prior exposure to contact centers or outsourced clinical operations (triage, patient access, scheduling).
- Experience with TSAs, carve-outs, and cross-border tuck-ins.
- Familiarity with AI/automation in service operations (QA, WFM, routing, agent assist).
- Network among lower-middle-market sponsors, bankers, and lenders in healthcare services.
Compensation & Location - Competitive salary + meaningful equity; performance bonus tied to deal execution and value-creation outcomes.
- On-site in Palo Alto with periodic travel for sourcing, diligence, and integration (≈30–40%).
- Be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If anything
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