🧬 Let's accelerate medical innovation

At Power, we're making clinical trials easy to navigate for all patients.

Today, patients look to promising medical research when standard treatments have failed them. Unfortunately, there is no single source of truth that patients can understand and trust. The status quo is a government run website which is written in complex medical jargon that is impossible for most people to navigate.

At the same time, clinical trials are the bottleneck on medical innovation—new medicine takes almost 10 years to test and over 86% of all clinical trials are delayed because they can't find enough patients. This is one of the biggest problems facing the life science industry.

Power is the easiest way for patients to access promising new studies. Thus helping more patients find treatments and speeding up the progress of medical research as we go.

🏹 The role

Work directly with our cofounders to drive (primarily organic) patient acquisition and activation. We’re at a stage where we’ve built a meaningful foundation through programmatic SEO, and are looking to both 10x this while proving out other organic loops like patient-to-patient referrals.

As a result, you’ll end up partnering with senior engineers to both test new systems and optimize existing ones. While you’ll have considerable resources dedicated to growth (as liquidity is the product in a marketplace), though we’ll also expect you to be validating ideas directly yourself whenever a low-/no-code test is possible. Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for imagining and managing a portfolio of bets in order to ensure we’re delivering against organic growth goals.

🤔 Some of the problems we'll be working on

We don't believe in strict job requirements, but if these problems sound fun and familiar, you're probably well suited for this gig:

1. Building out same-side and cross-marketplace growth loops to ensure we’re helping as many patients as possible.
2. Making it easier for patients to find, understand, and evaluate promising treatments for their medical conditions, so as to improve overall conversion rates.
3. Diving into competitors to identify SEO opportunities, and then imagining programmatic pages we might launch to support patients’ search for the topics / themes you identify.
4. Building microproducts to support patients who are trying to better understand drug-drug interactions, or the tradeoffs associated with different treatment plans.

🌟Nice to haves

• You have a personal connection to the space: much of our team has close family or friends who’ve interacted with clinical research from the patient perspective.
• You have a deep familiarity with marketplace businesses, clinical research, or health tech more broadly.
• You’ve led growth teams of a larger scale, and will be able to help us see around corners.
• You have some other ‘spike’ or unique strength that would round us out! We’re always looking for complementary skills & experiences.
• You like to dive into the lit in your personal life — whether it be for sleep, nutrition, supplements, or something else entirely.

🔎 The product

Power is the most patient-friendly marketplace resource for clinical trials.

• Comprehensive: we make it easy to search across every trial in North America so patients never feel like they have blind spots
• Simple: we apply a healthy amount of data engineering and empathy to the reams of unstructured medical data on clinical trials to simplify things for patients that are trying to evaluate potential trials
• Connected: we help patients proactively reach out to the researchers directly and researchers love connecting with motivated patients

👋 The team

We're a team of experienced marketplace and healthtech builders with backing from some of the best across health tech and pharma.

Check out our team page

✉️ If this sounds like your kind of adventure

We'd love to hear from you.

Email bask@withpower.com

In lieu of a cover letter, tell us about something you've built that you're proud about!

🔎 FAQ

What is the culture like at Power?

Our team rallies around five values: urgency, selflessness, agency, obsession, and “these values will change”. To this last point, prior to our Series A we were focused on ‘pragmatism’ rather than ‘obsession.’

“How do I know if Power is too (early / late)-staged for me?”

While we clearly have product market fit, we’re still much building out large parts of the business. This means that Power is probably too early for you if you’re hoping to primarily follow a script, facilitate an existing process, or look for a series of 5% wins in any given domain.

That said, as we cross 20 people, we’ve reached a point where no one is doing everything anymore. As a result Power is probably too late for you if you don’t have a craft you’re excited to continue to perfect.

Where are you located? What's your approach to remote work?

Power was born as a remote first team, and will always be open to senior individual contributors anywhere in the world.

That said, we’re increasingly moving towards a two-hub model:

• Most of our high-collaboration roles (product, design, biz ops, customer ops) will be hired in San Francisco moving forward.
  • Our San Francisco team is in-person 4-5 days a week (Bask & Brandon will be in-person ~every day).
• We’ll continue to build a strong engineering team in-and-around Toronto and Canada.

Outside of this, we've budgeted for quarterly team off sites over the course of the next year, as we believe work is more fun when you have a deep personal relationship with your colleagues.

What are the requirements? Do I need certain years of experience, or a background in healthcare?

We have no 'formal' experience requirement, but think it's important that our earliest team members are highly autonomous.

Inversely, if you're at a point in your career where active mentorship is very important to you, this role likely isn't a fit for you.

How is the work life balance?

We trust team members to manage their own schedules and believe that taking time off to recharge makes you more productive in the long run.

That said, we’re early enough that everyone’s work makes a big difference on the company’s trajectory. As a result, our team finds hard work fulfilling when we know it will be impactful.

Typically, we check out around 6pm to protect family time and then log-in later to finish anything that was left undone.

How are you funded?

Happy to share specifics but we've raised a large Series A from top investors. We've intentionally raised enough such that we have time to get from our current clear signs of product market fit to sizeable scale.

How does your interview process work?

This depends on the role, but roughly there are two stages. Initially meet with one or two members of your peers, and another with one or both founders. We try to move quickly on decisions so as not to waste anyone’s time.

“Do you have benefits?”

Yes!

“What’s your vacation policy?”

Unlimited. In practice, people tend to take ~1-2 weeks in the summer, and ~1-2 weeks in the winter.