Head of Operations at Mendelian Health
£45,000 – £60,000
Solving rare and hard to diagnose diseases
Mendelian.co is a digital health company based in London building technologies to accelerate the diagnosis of patients with rare and hard to diagnose diseases. Our team of clinicians, data scientists and software engineers are tackling the most complicated diagnoses on a national and global scale. Rare diseases (all 7,000 known types combined) affect over 350m people and take on average 7 years to diagnose in clinics.
Mendelian software is used by the NHS and hundreds of thousands of patients are now benefiting from our technology, which has attracted acclaim from top researchers and clinical doctors in the field.
? Who we are ?
Mendelian is a round table of physicians and data scientists. We hold weekly sprints to prioritise work at a company level. Technical staff meet practising doctors and medical staff get down and dirty with the code. We go on annual retreats and are flexible around working hours.
We make working in health feel modern. We work flexible hours, boast membership to a great co-working space, and, on Thursdays, take turns making a surprisingly high quality (virtual) lunch. Do you have any culinary delights you want to share?
We offer an intellectually stimulating environment, work within an interdisciplinary team and have an inclusive culture. We are a high-calibre, mission-driven team building a technology that improves our world.
?Mission ?
Our mission is to help doctors diagnose rare disease patients faster.
Faster diagnosis is key to the future of the NHS and healthcare abroad, from improving the lives of chronically sick people to reducing inefficiencies in overburdened hospitals. We are deploying early detection systems for rare diseases, some of the most difficult and protracted diagnoses for doctors to make.
We believe that delayed diagnosis is an information challenge and that technological innovation is central to achieving our mission. Founded by engineers and doctors, we’ve held our technology and clinical mind to high standards from the beginning.
If you want to learn more about our mission, and about how rare diseases aren’t that rare at all, then check out our publication Why we do what we do: https://medium.com/mendelian/mendelian-why-eb1ad54d0c81
?Role Overview ?
We are looking for an excellent all round operator, with previous brand or marketing experience.
We’ve successfully deployed our solution into clinics, scanning and reviewing hundreds of thousands of electronic medical records for symptoms of rare disease. Over the next year we need to scale up our systems and processes in order to process millions more. We’re hiring a highly motivated and organised person as a key role in the Company to help us do just that.
This role at Mendelian will give you exposure to a range of different verticals, where you will deep dive into the fundamentals of each business area you work on. This gives you breadth and depth of experience unrivalled in almost any other job and offers you significant opportunities for personal development and the chance to have a huge impact on Mendelian’s success.
?? We want you ??
- You are an extremely talented generalist that finds that they’re great at most things they lend their hand to.
- You have deep experience delivering projects within a start-up environment (Series A and above).
- You are relentlessly focused on delivery.
- You feel comfortable with deep scientific and technological topics and are an avid learner of such.
- To be successful in this role, you should be open-hearted, outgoing and value your ability to help people as the first priority.
- You have outstanding, written English and are an exceptionally articulate person in writing.
- You feel connected to our global mission of reducing the diagnosis burden of patients and healthcare systems.
- You are a self-starter who doesn’t need direct supervision to motivate you for success – we believe strongly in building a culture of individual accountability and ownership.
- You have the entrepreneurial spirit in that you’re comfortable with ambiguity and are energised by the process of building something lasting from the ground up
- Great culinary skills for our weekly lunch competition is a plus (that is a joke)
?Responsibilities ?
Overall, you will be working with the CEO on multiple areas of the business. You will be proactively managing in a unique position to be a sounding board on key decision making and should thrive to be extremely proactive in problem solving across the business as a whole.
The role has 2 main pillars:
- Comms/Marketing Jack-of-all trade:
- Branding/PR – You should have some experience in building partnerships and relationships to build some buzz around the brand. You should be able to adapt and manage these processes for your brand.
- Be the brand guardian: work across the organisation to ensure that the brand is implemented consistently across all internal and external touchpoints, which are shared with external agencies and partners
- Ops
- Daily Operations: proactively manage tasks surrounding the Daily operations – ensuring the business is running and our team is in their highest spirits. Continuous operations throughout the company on a daily basis through close supervision of teams and individuals, and through their own direct work advancing business processes
- Finances : bookkeeping, resource/funding allocation, payment/strategy, and other financial matters.
- Team: Ensuring a consistent flow of information from the company as a whole to the CEO.
- Relationship Management: handling investor relations and ensuring clean, accurate and timely reporting to the investor base as a whole.
⭐ Important info ⭐
- Location: London (Remote during Covid19)
- Starting date: ASAP
- Job type: Full-time
- Meaningful equity package
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
- We do not work with recruiters
