Physician Advisor (Psychiatrist)

Psychiatrist Advisor : Healthcare Shares

• Carried interest in venture capital fund
• Remote

Healthcare Shares PBC is an early-stage, physician-backed healthcare venture capital firm that invests in social impact healthcare startups. We operate a venture capital fund, a venture studio, a marketing agency, and a free online community for healthcare entrepreneurship. Our mission is to positively improve healthcare through the power of entrepreneurship.

Healthcare Shares is building an ecosystem designed to support healthcare founders, clinicians, investors, operators, and industry leaders who want to help transform healthcare. Through our venture capital fund, we invest in promising healthcare startups. Through our venture studio, we help launch and support new healthcare companies. Through our marketing agency, we help healthcare startups grow their visibility, credibility, and market presence. Through our free online community, we provide education, resources, and connections for people interested in healthcare innovation, healthcare investing, and entrepreneurship.

We believe some of the most important healthcare solutions will come from mission-driven founders who understand real problems in care delivery, access, affordability, operations, technology, and patient outcomes. Healthcare Shares exists to help identify, support, and scale those companies while creating opportunities for healthcare professionals and investors to participate in the future of healthcare innovation.

: Psychiatrist Advisor
Healthcare Shares is seeking experienced psychiatrists to serve as Psychiatrist Advisors. This role is ideal for physicians with firsthand experience in mental health care, behavioral health, addiction medicine, telepsychiatry, digital mental health, care coordination, value-based care, healthcare AI, medication management, patient engagement, or healthcare innovation.

As a Psychiatrist Advisor, you will provide clinical, operational, and strategic insight to help Healthcare Shares evaluate, support, and grow healthcare startups within our venture capital fund, venture studio, and broader healthcare entrepreneurship ecosystem. This is a flexible, remote advisory opportunity for psychiatrists who are passionate about improving mental health access, care delivery, affordability, patient outcomes, and innovation through entrepreneurship.

• Provide clinical and strategic guidance on healthcare startups focused on psychiatry, behavioral health, mental health care delivery, addiction medicine, telepsychiatry, digital health, healthcare AI, patient engagement, and related areas.
• Support Healthcare Shares in evaluating healthcare startups, founders, business models, clinical relevance, workflow fit, scalability, patient impact, and social impact potential.
• Advise portfolio companies, venture studio projects, and healthcare entrepreneurs on psychiatry workflows, clinician adoption, patient care pathways, care coordination, clinical validation, commercialization strategy, and go-to-market considerations when appropriate.
• Offer relevant introductions, industry insight, and subject matter expertise across psychiatry, behavioral health, health systems, digital mental health, employer health, payer/provider models, healthcare technology, and startup ecosystems.
• MD or DO with experience practicing psychiatry.
• Board certification or board eligibility in psychiatry preferred.
• Experience in mental health care, behavioral health, addiction medicine, telepsychiatry, digital mental health, medication management, value-based care, healthcare AI, startups, investing, advisory work, or healthcare innovation preferred.
• Strong understanding of psychiatry workflows, patient care pathways, clinician adoption, behavioral health access challenges, care coordination, and real-world barriers to healthcare technology adoption.
• This Psychiatrist Advisor role offers the opportunity to receive carried interest in the Healthcare Shares venture capital fund. Advisors may also have opportunities to support Healthcare Shares venture studio companies and startup clients, including potential sweat equity opportunities when applicable.

Additional benefits include networking with healthcare founders, investors, physicians, clinicians, executives, operators, behavioral health leaders, digital health leaders, and healthcare innovation professionals; early exposure to innovative healthcare startups; opportunities to support mission-driven healthcare companies; and the ability to contribute to meaningful social impact across the healthcare ecosystem.

Healthcare Shares is building a physician-backed venture capital platform focused on improving healthcare through entrepreneurship. As a Psychiatrist Advisor, you will have the opportunity to bring real-world psychiatry and behavioral health expertise into the healthcare startup ecosystem and help founders build solutions that are clinically relevant, operationally practical, physician-informed, and aligned with real patient and clinician needs.

This is an opportunity to contribute your psychiatry expertise, network, and perspective to a growing healthcare venture ecosystem focused on supporting practical, scalable solutions to some of healthcare’s most important mental health, behavioral health, access, affordability, and care delivery challenges.

Healthcare Shares PBC is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Employment decisions at Healthcare Shares PBC are based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and the ability to perform the responsibilities of the role.