aios - Head of Expansion at AIOS — Remote, $200-$400k/yr + .15% - 0.5% equity
Requirements
• Regulatory: You’ve operated in a heavily regulated industry and know how to move quickly without treating compliance as somebody else’s problem. • European Expansion: You’ve launched and scaled businesses across multiple European countries, namely Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and/or the Nordics. • Evaluation: You have experience evaluating partnerships, joint ventures, licensing arrangements, or acquisitions as routes into new markets. You have conducted diligence, structured a deal, and closed it. • AI-Native: You use AI to research markets, analyse regulations, evaluate opportunities, draft plans, automate workflows, and increase the amount you can personally execute. • Talent: You’ve built and managed a lean, high-performance team across multiple countries. You detest incompetence in your team. • Founder: You’ve founded something (no matter how small), or joined a project early. You may want to start your own company in the future. • Figure It Out: You’re one of those timeless people who could be dropped anywhere in the world, in any century, and figure out how to make progress. • OUR CULTURAL STANDARDS • We aim to make this your life’s work. This should be the most challenging, most rewarding role of your life. Accordingly, these are the core cultural standards to which we hold ourselves & our team-members: • 1. Belief in the mission: We will have served 100 million patients by the end of 2035 and we transform the life of most patients who join. We have a lot of work to do. We are obsessed with our patients and are dedicated to the mission. • 2. Unwavering integrity: We are at the frontier, so we often live in ambiguity with no trodden path. When we can’t look to others for guidance, we must maintain impeccable ethics and unwavering integrity. • 3. Only the paranoid survive: Bad sh*t is coming. By joining us, you’re choosing to sail straight towards the storms with unhesitating conviction. However much we’ve already done, however far we’ve already come — it’s still Day 1 and all our work is ahead of us. • 4. If we’re average we fail: We are only interested in “insanely great”, a focus on the quality of our execution that in everyday life would be considered pathological. We have a dedication to excellence and reject incompetence. • 5. Commitment to candor: That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. You get full transparency from the company and the company expects full transparency from you. We never say anything about someone that we wouldn’t say to them directly. We give feedback with love and do not need to protect people from fleeting physical sensations. • 6. A maniacal sense of urgency: We execute at an intensity that most people think is impossible. Speed is critical and we need things done yesterday. We all work very hard and in such a competitive world there really is no other way to win. • 7. Enduring frugality: We are frugal. We hate being wasteful and we are anti-luxury. A culture of cheapness keeps us young. We spend our cash wisely & carefully — in a way that would make our grandmas proud. • 8. Bulldozing barriers: The world is malleable and we shape it. We truly believe this and act accordingly. We are relentlessly resourceful and are at the mercy of no-one but ourselves. You’ll be shocked how capable you are and how much you can achieve. • 9. Keep your head down: We’re boring people doing exciting work. We don’t chase short-term status — we ignore short-term dopamine hits and focus on what matters. Outsiders will underestimate us and we revel in that. • 10. The power of focus: We live in a world of power laws and we cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. Know your One Thing, and nail it. • 🎯 “You just build a f*ing amazing experience. Make each step amazing. Make every decision in the long term interest of the customer. Give the customer massively more value than you take.”
Responsibilities
• Expansion: You’ll own European expansion from market research through launch readiness, turning “we should enter this country” into “we can compliantly serve patients here”, then repeat the process faster every time. • Prioritisation: You’ll determine which countries we should enter next based on market size, customer demand, unit economics, regulatory complexity and speed to launch. • Planning: You’ll identify precisely what is blocking us from launching in each priority country, then construct the plan to plow through blockers. • Build or Buy: You’ll choose the fastest compliant route into each market, whether that means architecting internally, partnering with established local providers, and/or acquiring existing infrastructure. • Legal & Regulatory: You’ll make sure we have the appropriate legal entities, local/national permissions, registrations, contracts and compliance frameworks required to operate. • Clinical: You’ll establish the clinical infrastructure required to serve patients, including helping staff the initial clinical team if building from 0. • Supply & Fulfilment: You’ll secure reliable medication supply, pharmacy partner(s), and fulfilment infrastructure so we can launch quickly and scale without operational constraints. • Readiness: You’ll coordinate the legal, clinical, product, operational and supply work required for our Growth team to begin testing each market as quickly as possible. • Playbook: You’ll turn what we learn from each launch into a repeatable system, reducing the time, cost and complexity required to enter the next country. • Experience: You have 5+ years in expansion, market launch, business operations, general management, or a similarly high-ownership role. I have a strong preference for people who understand & enjoy the scary speed of a high-growth startup. • Launches: You have personally owned taking European launches from idea to live operations. You know what it takes and remain close to the metal. • Judgement: You determine which markets are actually worth entering, what must be true for them to work, and whether we should build, partner, or acquire. • Execution: You smoothly move from strategy-mode into the trenches. You’re comfortable negotiating partnerships, reviewing contracts, setting up entities, solving supply constraints, and doing whatever else is required to compliantly launch. • Complexity: You can grok complex regulatory environments and work effectively across legal, clinical, and ops. You use experts to reach decisions where needed, while never outsourcing your ownership. • Clockspeed: You learn unfamiliar markets unusually quickly. You know how to find the right people, ask sharp questions, separate real blockers from perceived blockers, and reach high-quality decisions without months of research. • Project Management: You run several country launches concurrently without losing control of the details. You create clear plans with DRIs and deadlines. • Systems: You turn each launch into reusable scaffolding. You identify what can be standardised across Europe to continuously reduce the time required to launch. • Ownership: You truly operate like a founder. You don’t wait for complete information, perfect resources, or somebody else to remove a blocker. You take responsibility for the result until patients are being served.
Benefits
• You get paid above market salary and you get early stage equity, so you get really rich if we nail this. • Compensation: $200k-$400k/yr + .15%-0.5% equity • The stuff below is cool as well. • Healthcare: comprehensive medical insurance (if appropriate) • Vacation: PTO with a yearly minimum (≥2wks/yr + local national holidays) • Remote: our team is fully distributed across the world and functions fully remotely • Personal development: budget for books, courses, coaching ($1200/yr) • Personal wellness: budget for gym, health apps ($1200/yr) • Coaching: free biweekly health and work coaching so you’re sharp and healthy • Equipment: Macbook & work-from-home equipment provided as needed • What are we missing? We're still early so you get to shape our culture. • 1. Apply on Ashby https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Aios/30ae2dba-a240-4d37-b843-a4c73e4b3040
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT