Chief Operating Officer, Inato
$260-335k
Offers Equity
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AI-powered patient recruitment for clinical trials
Posted today
AI-powered patient recruitment for clinical trials
21-100 employees
Posted today
$260-335k
Offers Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring clinical research to each and every patient, regardless of who they are and where they live.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience as a COO or in a senior operational leadership role with comparable scope and responsibility, with a track record in operating roles rather than primarily advisory or consulting work
- Significant experience owning (or collaborating closely with?) customer facing delivery functions in a fast paced startup, in a company between 50 and 500 people
- Strong business judgment with the ability to gather input from teams, determine key priorities, and make clear decisions when situations are ambiguous
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with a CEO or executive team to translate company level goals into actionable plans
- Must be based in EST time zone. (Candidates in France may be considered)
Desirable
- Experience working within a platform or marketplace model
- Exposure to regulated industries or environments handling sensitive data
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Chief Operating Officer to lead cross functional execution across the company and ensure that our core operational teams can deliver with speed, clarity, and accountability
- This person will manage our site side and sponsor side delivery teams, own the operating cadence, and serve as a close partner to our CEO and leadership team to help the company scale
- In the next 12 to 24 months, this role will be central to delivering on our enterprise partnerships, driving adoption of our AI platform across research sites, and scaling our geographic expansion
- This role reports to the CEO
- Manage our site side and sponsor side delivery teams, ensuring clear priorities and high quality execution across onboarding, adoption, enterprise delivery, and geographic expansion
- Build the operational structure, processes, and decision making systems needed to support scale and consistency
- Ensure teams execute with clear goals, consistent tracking, and timely decisions, and that compliance is built into how work gets done
- Own leadership level operating rhythms including OKR setting, operational planning cycles, and leadership meetings
- Improve coordination across teams by establishing clear, predictable structures for how cross functional initiatives are planned, executed, and communicated
Our take
Inato is a platform that helps biopharmaceutical companies increase the pool of available patients engaged in clinical trials. The AI-enabled platform was built to transform the way that pharmaceutical companies and research sites like community health centres and hospitals work together to improve and accelerate clinical research. It analyses and advises on the best healthcare sites for any given study, combining trial planning, site selection and patient pre-screening into an AI-enabled network, ensuring sponsors and research sites alike can successfully deliver trials.
Inato's platform was designed to enhance the accessibility, representation, and performance of clinical trials. With thousands of research sites on its platform, the company has the power to provide life-changing trial opportunities to the patients who need them most. trial accessibility, representation, and performance, and thousands of research sites leverage the platform to bring life-changing trial opportunities to their patients.
Backed by leading global venture capital firms such as Cathay Innovation, Obvious Ventures, La Maison Partners, and Top Harvest Capital, Inato's funding has helped it scale with speed and confidence.
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Meet the team
6 people
Meet Julia, Senior Manager Customer Success
Our mission
Enable research sites to enroll more patients, enhance sponsor relationships, and secure more studies.Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"As someone who has worked at clinical research sites and witnessed firsthand the limited access to trials, I joined Inato because I was drawn to its..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Feb 2020
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $50.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health insurance
- 6 weeks of vacation for all employees + additional holidays for a total of more than 7 weeks off
- Exceptional work environment (co-working space budget, top-of-the-line equipment, etc.)
- Flexible work schedule
- Opportunity for career growth in a supportive environment
- Free books & learning materials
- Team bonding events - One annual all company off-site (3 days long)
- 16 weeks maternal leave/ 4 weeks paternal leave
Company values
- Make others successful: we are genuinely curious about how we can help our teammates and partners. We value diverse perspectives, lead with empathy, and break down silos.
- Build trust: through transparency, we build trust with sponsors, sites, and our teammates.
- Raise the bar: we set a high bar on quality and craft. This relentless drive is how we will bring clinical research to each and every patient.brace uncertainty, adapt to change and learn from failure
- Fight complexity: we simplify solutions and processes to their most essential form - without sacrificing accuracy or completeness.
- Bias for action:Â we focus on what matters most, move fast & iterate.
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Leadership
Kourosh Davarpanah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kourosh Davarpanah is co-founder and CEO of Inato, where he sets the company’s vision and leads the product, engineering, and AI teams. Prior to Inato, he co-founded Fleet Impact.
Liz Beatty
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Liz Beatty, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Inato, leads global growth across GTM, ops & customer success. She previously spent 15 years running clinical trials at Bristol Myers Squibb.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Inato
- At Inato, our mission is to bring clinical research to more diverse patient populations around the world. That commitment to diversity doesn’t stop with the sites and communities we serve, it starts with us. We believe that to build truly inclusive solutions in healthcare, our own team must reflect a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are woven into how we hire, how we collaborate, and how we lead. We hold ourselves to a high bar not just for excellence, but for creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
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