Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder — CHIC (Corporate Healthcare Inventory Clearinghouse)

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder — CHIC (Corporate Healthcare Inventory Clearinghouse) Austin, Texas Remote | Co-Founder Equity Only | Pre-Seed | Full Commitment Required ⛔ STOP. READ EVERY WORD OF THIS BEFORE YOU APPLY. US RESIDENTS ONLY. NON-US APPLICANTS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. IF YOU DO NOT MEET EVERY REQUIREMENT STATED BELOW, DO NOT APPLY. THIS IS NOT A JOB. THIS IS A CO-FOUNDING OPPORTUNITY. There is no salary until seed funding closes. This is founding equity, nothing else. If you need a paycheck right now, close this tab. If you understand what founding equity in a category-defining infrastructure company is worth and have the financial standing to back yourself while the raise closes — keep reading. WHAT WE ARE BUILDING CHIC is becoming the financial operating system for US employer healthcare. One trillion dollars of employer healthcare spend flows annually through fragmented, opaque, unaudited infrastructure. No employer truly controls it. No hospital system truly trusts it. No independent sovereign layer governs it. We are building that layer. A sovereign Registry. Programmatic payment rails via Visa B2B. Standardized pre-purchased clinical capacity contracts between Fortune 500 self-insured employers and elite US hospital systems. Real-time visibility, immutable auditability, and programmable rules enforcement on every dollar — from the moment it leaves corporate treasury to the moment it reaches a clinical provider. This is not a niche healthcare IT play. This is infrastructure. The kind that, once trusted and embedded, becomes structurally unavoidable. The kind that gets valued on transaction volume, not revenue multiples. THE TEAM YOU ARE JOINING This is where most startups ask you to take a leap of faith. We are not most startups. The founding team is already assembled and committed at equity level: A Chief Technology Officer who built a regulated fintech platform from zero under MAS licensing and currently leads API-first banking infrastructure for US banks — actively building the Registry architecture now. A Chief Medical Officer who is Vice Chair of Outpatient Operations at NYU Langone Health, running 70+ imaging sites and $500M in annual revenue — the exact institutional clinical scale CHIC targets, on the founding team. A Chief Science Officer who founded the world's premier academic institute for medical tourism research, with active corporate relationships at Walmart, Visa, and major US health systems — meetings already scheduled. Two founding legal partners whose combined experience includes 35 years exclusively in health law, 15 years as General Counsel at UnitedHealthcare, VP Legal at Oscar Health through its first profitable year, and direct current experience as GC to self-funded employer health plans. The regulatory architecture is not a risk — it is a founding strength. An IP contributor holding the sovereign Registry architecture. Investor introductions are already in motion. A November 2026 presentation at the Business Group on Health Health Innovations Forum — the room where Fortune 500 benefits decision-makers and venture capital firms meet simultaneously — is being targeted. A Visa B2B partnership conversation is already being framed. A pre-seed raise of $3-5M is underway with warm relationships already activated by the founding team. The architecture is built. The legal classification is bulletproof. The clinical validation is institutional. The technology leadership is proven. The commercial relationships are live. What is missing is one person. The CEO who makes all of it move faster. WHO WE NEED Not a manager. Not a consultant. Not someone who ran a division of something large and is now calling themselves an entrepreneur. Not someone who needs six months to transition. Not someone who will apply to this and four other opportunities this week. We need a co-founding CEO who has looked at trillion-dollar markets before and had the ambition and the contacts to go after them. Specifically and non-negotiably: You have founded or co-founded a company and achieved a meaningful institutional exit. Or you have been the founding-level commercial or operational CEO of a venture-backed company that reached institutional scale. You have done the zero-to-one. You know what it costs. You have warm, named, currently active relationships at the C-suite level inside Fortune 500 self-insured employers — CFOs, Chief Benefits Officers, VP Benefits — or inside major US hospital systems at CFO, COO, or VP Strategy level. Not contacts you could probably reach. People who will take your call today and meet with you next week. You have personally led or been the primary driver of institutional capital raises. Not participated. Not supported. Driven. Your name is on the relationship and the close. You understand B2B financial infrastructure, payment rails, or regulated fintech at an operational or commercial level. You do not need to be an engineer. You need to be credible in a room with a hospital CFO, a Fortune 500 treasury team, and a Visa partnership executive simultaneously. You are completely available from day one. No side roles. No winding down. No fractional commitments. No ongoing advisory work that competes for your attention. The train is moving. You get on it now or you do not get on it. You are financially stable enough to operate without salary while the pre-seed raise closes. This is a founding structure, not a crisis. Every other founding team member is operating on the same terms. WHO SHOULD NOT APPLY We are not being polite about this. The following profiles will not receive a response: Clinical operations executives. If your career has been built in care delivery, behavioral health, IDD, home health, skilled nursing, hospital administration, patient census management, or any form of direct clinical services — this is not your role. CHIC is a B2B financial infrastructure company that operates in the healthcare sector. We are not a clinical company. Consultants and advisors who have never owned a P&L as a founding CEO. Advising companies is not the same as building one. Executives whose healthcare experience is exclusively pharmaceutical, medical device, or life sciences. We are not a clinical product company. Candidates whose network lives primarily on LinkedIn rather than in active institutional relationships. Anyone who needs a salary to bridge to seed funding. Anyone applying to multiple opportunities simultaneously and hedging their bets. Anyone who read "unicorn potential" and got excited without reading the rest of this post. WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS A co-founder equity stake in a company targeting the financial operating system for a trillion-dollar market. A founding team of institutional-grade operators who have already done the hard work so the CEO can focus entirely on commercial execution and capital formation. Warm investor introductions from day one. A regulatory architecture that has been built to survive attack. A technology leadership team actively building the Registry. A clinical validator running $500M of real institutional capacity. A Visa partnership conversation already in motion. A Business Group on Health presentation in November that puts CHIC in front of the Fortune 500 benefits buyers and venture capital firms simultaneously. This is the kind of company that serious operators spend years looking for. If you are that operator, you already know it reading this. HOW TO APPLY One message. Three things only: Which specific, named relationships you have today at Fortune 500 self-insured employer C-suite or major US hospital system leadership level that are directly relevant to CHIC's commercial strategy. What your most relevant capital raise was, what your specific role was in closing it, and what the outcome was. Why you are fully available to commit to this immediately, with no salary, from day one. Anything else — a generic cover letter, a pitch about your background, a request for more information before you share yours — will not receive a response. Recruitment agencies: do not contact us. Non-US residents: do not apply. 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