What are the responsibilities and job description for the Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer (CBO) position at Stilwater Health AI?
Stilwater Health AI LLC is building AI agents for healthy living - intelligent copilots designed to help nutritionists, yoga professionals, health coaches, and healthcare organizations deliver more personalized, scalable support.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are seeking an accomplished, entrepreneurial business leader to join Stilwater as Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer. The role will lead U.S. market entry, hospital and health-system partnerships, enterprise growth, strategic alliances, commercialization, and revenue strategy. This is a builder’s mandate for someone who understands how healthcare organizations evaluate, adopt, integrate, and scale technology.
IDEAL BACKGROUND:
- 10 years of leadership experience in health technology, healthcare enterprise sales, business development, partnerships, or commercialization.
- A strong track record of working directly with hospitals, health systems, clinical networks, or healthcare executives in the United States.
- Deep understanding of hospital procurement, enterprise sales cycles, digital-health adoption, pilots, stakeholder management, and compliance-conscious deployment.
- Established relationships across hospitals, providers, payers, employers, investors, or strategic health-tech partners.
- Proven ability to build go-to-market strategies, close complex B2B opportunities, and create repeatable revenue channels.
- Founder mindset with high ownership, resilience, commercial judgment, and comfort operating in an early-stage environment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Define and execute Stilwater’s U.S. commercial, market-entry, and partnership strategy.
- Build strategic relationships with hospitals, health systems, clinical leaders, wellness providers, and enterprise healthcare stakeholders.
- Lead hospital-facing business development, pilot programs, strategic alliances, enterprise sales, and channel partnerships.
- Translate market needs into product priorities with the founding, technology, clinical, and product teams.
- Develop pricing, revenue models, partnership frameworks, and scalable sales processes.
- Represent Stilwater with healthcare executives, investors, strategic partners, and industry networks.
- Help shape the company’s long-term strategy, organizational direction, and U.S. leadership team.
ELIGIBILITY & CO-FOUNDER COMPENSATION
This opportunity is currently open only to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders). Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship. Compensation will be in the form of meaningful co-founder equity, commensurate with experience, contribution, commitment, responsibilities, and long-term value creation. This is intended for a hands-on operating co-founder - not an advisory-only role.
Interested candidates may share their profile with a brief note outlining their U.S. hospital/health-tech experience and why they want to build Stilwater as a co-founder.