Manager of AI and Innovation, Zus Health
$200-240k
+ Equity
Office located in Lincoln St, Boston
Development platform for healthcare startups
Be an early applicant
Development platform for healthcare startups
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
+ Equity
Office located in Lincoln St, Boston
21-100 employees
Company mission
To catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning and AI, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or people management role
- Proven experience developing novel features with advanced technologies and deploying them in real-world applications
- Strong understanding of MLOps tools, workflows, and production AI systems
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of natural language processing (NLP), including embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering
- Demonstrated success delivering AI products in collaborative, cross-functional environments—healthcare experience is a plus
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- BS or higher in a technical field; MS or PhD is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced leader to head and expand our AI Innovation team
- This team leverages the latest AI/ML tools to develop novel products and capabilities for healthcare providers
- The successful candidate will be instrumental in defining our AI strategy and product innovation
- This position requires close cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and healthcare domain specialists to implement intelligent features that enhance care delivery for providers at both individual patient and population health levels
- In addition to providing high-level leadership, you will lead by example: providing technical direction, mentoring data scientists and engineers, and contributing to the development, deployment, and optimization of novel features across our platform
- Lead and mentor a high-performing AI innovation team
- Partner with product managers, engineers, and healthcare providers to identify high-impact opportunities. Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI-driven features to deliver real-world value
- Design, train, and fine-tune machine learning models, particularly LLMs, to support search, summarization, clinical reasoning, and other core use cases
- Lead the development of scalable and automated infrastructure for feature deployment, improvement, and monitoring. Own end-to-end model lifecycle in a production environment
- Collaborate with data engineers to create robust, scalable data pipelines and ensure the quality, integrity, and accessibility of data for training and evaluation
- Stay on the cutting edge of AI, particularly in NLP and LLM research. Translate breakthroughs into practical, scalable solutions
- Act as a key technical leader across engineering, product, and design teams. Translate complex capabilities into user-first features
Our take
Whilst the healthtech sector is growing fast, the kind of tech needed to build within each healthcare field can be radically different. The result has been that most of these companies develop in a vacuum, with time and resources wasted on unnecessary duplications of tools, data, and backends. Zus is looking to remedy this health data isolation issue by building a shared development platform for healthcare startups.
The idea is that companies will benefit from shared data in the backend - thus bringing down the cost and delays currently involved in setting up individual new companies. Whilst the healthtech boom of recent years is showing signs of abating, at least in the US, it’s still a strong and fertile market with plenty of room for innovation. This should keep interest high for capabilities like those offered by Zus.
Moreover, the company is led by HealthTech veteran Jonathan Bush. His tenure at athenahealth saw it ultimately sold in a $17B private equity deal after becoming a leading healthcare network service provider. With this expertise, a market-accelerating proposition, and impressive partnerships, Zus is becoming an important player.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$40m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$34m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74m
Company benefits
- Equity for all employees
- 401K plan - Complete with generous company match
- Excellent care options - Includes medical, dental, and vision
- Work from wherever - Be it from home, our office, or a hybrid of the two
- Flexible PTO - Hitting reset is strongly encouraged
- Zus-sponsored events - Remote employees are 100% included
Company HQ
Downtown, Boston, MA
Leadership
Jonathan Bush
(Founder & CEO)Originally an army medic, before consulting for a spell and then taking up an MBA at Harvard Business School. Subsequently founded athenahealth, and spent over two decades at the helm as CEO.
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