The Strategy & Operations Manager plays a key role in translating Raidium’s strategic vision into effective execution. Your team works directly with the COO to develop and implement operational plans that keep the company moving forward. You’ll be responsible for optimizing internal processes, ensuring alignment across teams, and driving strategic initiatives. This role also involves preparing investor reports, managing important cross-functional projects, and handling essential operational tasks, from planning key company events and rituals to streamlining onboarding processes. It is an ideal position for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a real impact on the growth of an innovative AI medtech company.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Collaborate closely with the leadership team to translate high-level company objectives into clear, actionable strategies and execution roadmaps. Ensure strong alignment across teams, clear prioritization of initiatives, and effective tracking of progress against strategic goals.

• Data-Driven Insights and Reporting: Prepare detailed, data-driven reports for investors and external stakeholders, providing updates on key milestones, metrics, and strategic progress.

• Process Management & Tooling: Design, implement, and continuously optimize internal processes and tooling to improve efficiency, scalability, and cross-team collaboration. Act as a central point of communication across teams and drive company-wide alignment through structured communications and strategic initiatives. This includes the deployment and adoption of AI tools and agents in daily workflows (e.g. Dust, Claude), as well as contributing to the hiring and onboarding processes for new team members.

• Transversal Project Ownership: Lead critical company initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality execution of cross-functional projects that support Raidium’s strategic roadmap and access to key resources, such as grant management, funding roadmap, data & compute access, cybersecurity certifications, quality and regulatory roadmap, etc.

• General Operations: Oversee day-to-day operational activities to support the smooth running of the company. This includes planning and coordinating company-wide events and rituals, as well as managing internal reporting to ensure all Raidium collaborators have visibility on ongoing initiatives, priorities, and progress

• Fundraising:  Support the leadership team across all stages of Raidium’s fundraising initiatives, from investor sourcing and pipeline management to hands-on operational execution. This includes preparing and maintaining data rooms, fundraising materials, participating in investor meetings when relevant, and coordinating across teams to ensure a smooth and efficient fundraising process.

• You will work closely with the leadership team composed of Sebastian (COO), Pierre (co-founder & CTO/CSO), Paul (co-founder & CEO) and Damien (CFO) and interact regularly with team leads across Machine Learning, Product, Software, QARA, Marketing, and Partnerships. You will be managed by Guillaume, our Senior Operations Manager.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration or in a scientific field (preferably related to biology, healthcare, machine learning / AI);

• 2+ years experience in strategic planning, operations, strategic consulting or similar; ideally with an exposure to the medical/healthcare industry, public health or research management;

• Ability to work independently and manage complex projects with diverse stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills and data driven mindset;

• Effective communication in written and oral English; French speaker (>=C1) ;

• Familiarity or strong willingness to learn on advanced medical topics related to precision medicine and Raidium’s target indications (oncology, neurology, metabolic diseases etc.).

Pluses

• Previous experience in a challenging ecosystem: fast-growing startup, top-tier consulting firm, pharma or medical device companies; 

• Experience with business reporting (internal & external);

• Experience in stakeholder management (investors, partners, suppliers);

• Experience with Venture Capital (VC)

• Knowledge of the medical imaging ecosystem and/or of the public research ecosystem (EU/US).

Why join us

• Join a very promising, well funded early stage start-up;

• Have a real and positive impact on people’s lives;

• Work on cutting-edge technology in a real-world healthcare environment;

• Work with a diverse and young team;

• Competitive salary.

The company

• Raidium is building a foundation Model for precision medicine in radiology. Our first release, Curia is already state of the art. We aim to broadly democratize  access to imaging biomarkers for both clinical and research applications through a biomarker factory. Our model is embedded in a new type of solution for the radiologist that enables a revolutionary AI-native workflow. Thanks to a 16M€ seed round raised in November 2024, Raidium is expanding its team.

The team

• The founders of Raidium are experts in radiology and machine learning from Owkin, bringing together extensive experience from both fields.

• Paul Herent, CEO, is a radiologist and former interne des hôpitaux de Paris, with a Cogmaster (ENS) and PSL background, and has published pioneering research on deep learning in radiology. 

• Pierre Manceron, CTO, is a Centrale Paris engineer specialized in Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning, who previously led machine learning projects at Owkin. 

• Sebastian Schwarz, COO, holds a double degree in X-HEC Data Science & Business, who previously worked as a Strategy & Operations Director at Owkin, where he developed Owkin’s strategic vision and operational agency.

• Our team brings together strong academic foundations (Polytechnique, Ponts, MVA) and deep medical, AI, and business experience from leading medical and tech companies such as Owkin, Cardiologs, Datadog, and Meta, all united by a mission to revolutionize radiology through cutting-edge technology.

• 1st interview - Fit interview with Guillaume (Senior Ops)

• 2nd interview - On-site interview and case study with Guillaume and Sebastian (COO)

• 3rd interview - Culture interview with Pierre (co-founder & CTO)

• Reference Calls