Head of Life Sciences Partnerships

The posting, as Amae Health wrote it

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

The Problem

Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression are where psychiatry needs new therapies most, and where drug development has struggled most. Trials fight high placebo response and endpoints built on infrequent rating scales. After launch, there is little real-world evidence on what happens to patients once a prescription is written.

The missing piece is the care setting itself: a place where these patients are seen several times a week, measured continuously, and treated by psychiatrists who can tell the industry what works. We are building that place.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation delivering psychiatry-led specialty outpatient care for people with complex mental illness through high-acuity, in-person clinics in California, New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.

Our integrated model brings psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community support together under one roof. Leading health systems, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit, collaborate with us to expand this level of care.

Alongside care delivery, we are building the science and technology the field has long lacked: proprietary clinical protocols, novel measurement, and an AI-driven data platform. Patients typically come to us after a hospitalization and stay with us from partial hospitalization through intensive outpatient and maintenance care. That produces a longitudinal, multimodal clinical record: standardized assessments, clinical documentation, speech and language data, labs, and wearables, organized in one data model.

That record already supports research. We have run an IRB-approved interventional study in our clinics, built a machine learning model that flags signs of psychosis from session transcripts alone, and announced a collaboration with Google Health to bring continuous wearable measurement into psychiatric care.

The Team

We are clinicians, operators, technologists, and scientists who chose Amae because the problem is hard and the stakes are real. Every function exists to serve one goal: better outcomes for the people we care for.

You will report to and partner directly
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ion tied to contracted partnership revenue and meaningful equity. Final pay depends on experience. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. We'll share specifics during the interview process.

What We Value

• We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It's how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.
• We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.
• We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.
• Your job isn't done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don't hide behind titles or org charts.
• We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don't do blame.
• We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.

Amae Health is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants from every background and life experience to apply.
What We Value

• We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.
• We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.
• We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.
• Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.
• We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.
• We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.