Senior Managing Director, Southeast Asia
Redesign Health · Southeast Asia, Singapore +1 · 4mo ago
About Redesign Health:
Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies. We manage venture capital and venture buyout strategies, each powered by an AI operating system and team of leading technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Our venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—and provides first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through exit. Our venture buyout strategy partners with proven management teams through control investments and delivers outsized value by rewiring core products and workflows with AI.
Since inception in 2018, Redesign and our portfolio companies have touched the lives of more than 15 million patients, raised over $1.5 billion from premier institutional, sovereign, and strategic investors, and built distinctive partnerships with marquee healthcare organizations and senior leaders around the world.
Redesign is based in New York and has offices in Bengaluru, Los Angeles, Riyadh, and Singapore.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Managing Director to lead Redesign Health’s Southeast Asia (SEA) platform. This is the founding leadership role responsible for expanding our presence in SEA and establishing Redesign Health as the healthcare venture partner of choice in the region.
This role requires an exceptional investing track record, a platform builder, and AI-innate operator. You will define and execute our investment strategy, build and direct the investing team, and partner with exceptional founders to create and scale healthcare companies.
What You'll Do:
Capital Development
Lead fundraising efforts and cultivate relationships with regional and global investors
Position Redesign as a leading healthcare venture platform in Southeast Asia
Investment & Company Creation
Define and evolve Redesign’s healthcare investment thesis for Southeast Asia
Serve on the Investment Committee, exercising strong judgment on founders, markets, and business models
Source, evaluate, and back exceptional founders, ensuring Redesign is the partner of choice
Partner with founders to build venture-scale healthcare companies from ideation through launch
Maintain a disciplined, high-velocity investment pipeline with rigorous prioritization and decision-making
Participate in governance activities, including board roles where appropriate
Platform & Operational Leadership
Own the P&L for the Singapore-based entity
Lead the build-out of the Southeast Asia platform, including operations, processes, and organizational culture, and provide operational oversight
Build and lead a high-performing regional team across investing, partnerships/growth, and platform functions
Develop deep relationships across founders, investors, healthcare operators, and ecosystem stakeholders
Who You Are:
Proven venture investor with strong judgment and a track record of backing exceptional founders, and a Founder magnet who can attract, assess, and close top-tier founders
AI-innate operator with a strong POV of how AI is reshaping healthcare
Strong network across founders, investors, and healthcare ecosystems
Strategic and commercial thinker with strong execution ability and deep understanding of SEA markets
Decisive, high-ownership, and comfortable operating in ambiguity
Technology Innovator: You have a track record of proactively leveraging AI and other emerging technology tools to create extraordinary productivity and impact within your role. You have built systems and workflows for yourself more sophisticated than basic ChatGPT/LLM usage and are constantly experimenting with new ways to use technology to disrupt yourself.
What You'll Need:
15+ years of experience in venture capital or healthcare investing, including 5+ years managing teams
Direct experience evaluating founders, making investment decisions, and supporting portfolio companies
Healthcare domain expertise across care delivery, health tech, and services
Experience building businesses, platforms, or investment operations in SEA
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred
Why Join Us:
The opportunity to play a pivotal role in defining Redesign’s presence in SEA, shape our investment theses, and play a foundational role in creating a new generation of healthcare ventures that can redefine the future of care.
The chance to join a global platform that provides unparalleled leverage from idea to exit, with access to world-class venture-building capabilities, deep healthcare expertise, shared infrastructure, and a global network of investors, founders, and partners to drive outsized impact and returns.
How We Work:
Our company values are the standards and norms that shape how we make decisions, build teams, serve patients, and partner with one another. They define what you can expect from us and what we expect from every person who joins our team. We share them openly so candidates can decide whether this way of working will bring out their best.
Patients are waiting: Work with the urgency that patients deserve.
AI sets the floor: Nothing short of what AI in expert hands can deliver; taste and judgment own the last mile.
Stack the team: Talent density is our greatest asset; raise the bar with every hire.
Trust people, challenge ideas: Assume good intent; never shy from rigorous debate.
Sweat your craft: Take pride in your work; seek feedback to continuously improve.
Go beyond: Your role, comfort zone, and expectations for what’s possible.
Be the partner you want: High integrity, responsive, and genuinely invested in shared success.
No shortcuts: Patient safety, clinical standards, and partner trust above all.