Head of Growth & Partnerships
Who we are:
Intron Health provides clinical speech recognition for 240 accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, providing up to 7x documentation speed up, and saving overworked doctors 3hrs per day so they can focus better on patient care. We integrate this speech-to-text technology into our EMR, further cutting over 60% of administrative paperwork, improving operational efficiency, and enabling real-time disease surveillance.
At Intron Health, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best.
Work Culture:
We operate in a remote and fast-paced work environment where every team member has the autonomy to deliver on agreed goals with flexible schedules and regular team-building events to foster collaboration and innovation. We are avid learners and offer growth and clear career progression pathways, ensuring every team member achieves their full potential.
Employment type:
A full-time employee who believes in our mission and is willing to grow with the company.
Job Overview:
We are seeking an ambitious and strategic Head of Growth & Partnerships to drive the adoption of our voice services within and beyond the healthcare industry (e.g. financial services, e-commerce, logistics, education, and aviation). This role will require a dynamic leader who can develop and nurture key partnerships, identify growth opportunities, and expand our customer base.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy targeting healthcare and non-healthcare industries, such as financial services, e-commerce and logistics.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key partners and stakeholders to expand the reach of our voice solutions.
- Collaborate with internal teams to align partnerships with company objectives and product capabilities.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities, negotiating contracts and agreements that drive revenue growth.
- Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and meetings to showcase our solutions and build brand awareness.
- Lead and collaborate with the sales and marketing teams to develop tailored strategies for each target sector.
- Provide regular reports and insights to senior leadership on partnership performance and growth metrics.
Our Ideal Candidate has:
- 5+ years of experience in business development, sales, or partnerships, preferably in healthcare, technology, financial services, e-Commerce, or logistics.
- Proven track record of driving growth and establishing successful partnerships.
- Strong negotiation and relationship management skills.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Not in this for the money (because we’re obviously a seed-stage startup, we don’t have it) but is ready to co-invest sweat, time, and effort for outsized returns in the future
How to apply: Send us your resume. Your resume should be in reverse chronological order showing the most recent experience projects first. Under each experience, kindly provide 3 to 4 bullet points describing interesting problems you solved, achievements or important lessons learned on the job. The Education/Academic qualification section should follow. The achievements/awards section should follow. Lastly, include any other information you think may be RELEVANT to the role. Please fill out the Intron application form and upload this resume here.
More About Intron
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About the Founder
Tobi Olatunji is a physician turned Machine Learning Scientist with a passion for Global Health.
Tobi’s journey to starting Intron is nothing short of epic. He’s worked with big names like AWS Health AI, Enlitic Inc., and Cambia Health Solutions building intelligent Natural Language processing tools for healthcare used in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, and the US. Now, he’s on the Advisory Board at Harvard’s OpenNotes Lab, pushing for responsible AI in healthcare. His research spans accented speech recognition, algorithmic bias, and more, with publications in top machine learning conferences like NeurIPS, Interspeech, and EMNLP.
With a mix of medical and tech degrees, including an MBBS, an MSc in Medical Informatics, and MSc in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, a certificate in Healthcare Management from Yale School of Management, plus three US tech patents, Tobi is a true innovator. He’s also a key member of the Commonwealth AI Consortium and the Research Director at Bio-RAMP Labs.
The Basics
Product demo: https://youtu.be/ZV10YNUNGYY
Audio Intelligence for Health: https://youtu.be/mTNWytb3x2I
Website: https://intron.io
Open positions: https://intron.io/about/#jobs
Recent Press
- TechCrunch pre-seed fundraise announcement
- Google Research, Gates Foundation, and Intron collaboration: link
- NVIDIA AI Blog: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/11/ai-africa-doctors-paperwork/
- BBC News Interview: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66033811
- Commonwealth Partnership Announcement: link and link
- Harvard+BIDMC OpenNotes Advisory Board: link
- Harvard Radcliffe Consortium on scaling Digital Health Innovations in Africa: link
- TechCabal article: https://techcabal.com/2023/05/29/intron-health-brings-ai-to-african-healthcare/
- NVIDIA and Huggingface collaborate with Intron for Zindi Challenge/Hackathon: https://zindi.africa/competitions/intron-afrispeech-200-automatic-speech-recognition-challenge
Research Papers
Cool research papers coming out of our lab:
- AfriSpeech [MITPress 2023]: our pan-African clinical speech dataset with benchmarks
- AfriNames [Interspeech 2023]: most ASR models butcher African names
- AccentFolds [EACL 2024]: models can learn African cultural and geopolitical relationships from speech data
- ASR on Medical Entities [Interspeech 2024]: models can work great on non-medical speech but perform worse on medical terms
- AfroTTS [Interspeech 2024]: A 1000 African Voices; generating English speech in nearly 1000 African accents
- AfriMed-QA [ACL 2025]: the largest study on LLMs in African healthcare