As the founding Medical Director, you will serve as the clinical backbone for the UK’s first AI-native digital health insurer. You will own clinical governance, shape automated triage architecture, and lead the path toward MHRA Class IIa medical device classification. This is a builder’s role at the intersection of AI and healthcare.
Medical Director at Ollyinsurance
Are you a physician who thinks like a builder? A YC-backed startup is hiring a founding Medical Director to serve as the clinical backbone of the UK’s first AI-native digital health insurer. You will own clinical governance, shape AI architecture, and lead MHRA medical device classification. This isn't a traditional CMO role—it is a chance to build a clinical model from the ground up at the frontier of healthtech and insurance.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Ollyinsurance
We are an AI-native private health insurance start-up building for the 88% of Brits without private cover.$3M pre-seed raised, PRA authorisation in progress, targeting March 2028 go-live. Backed by US institutional investors in the YC ecosystem.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and sign off on AI-native clinical triage architecture and evidence-based care pathways across multiple specialties.
- Lead clinical input for MHRA Class IIa medical device classification and ensure high-grade regulatory compliance and patient safety.
- Build and manage relationships with clinical advisors and external care providers to scale the clinical function from zero to launch.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- GMC-registered physician with a license to practise and a background in general practice, urgent care, or digital health.
- Proven experience in clinical governance, risk management, or navigating MHRA/UKCA medical device regulations in a digital health context.
- An entrepreneurial builder mindset comfortable with early-stage ambiguity and a deep interest in the intersection of AI and consumer health.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a YC-backed founding team with leadership experience from Lemonade, AXA Health, and Cleo at a critical pre-launch stage.
- Directly influence the clinical model of a disruptive insurance product targeting the 88% of the UK population currently without private cover.
- High-impact leadership opportunity involving foundational equity and the chance to define how AI safely replaces manual clinical processes at scale.
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