Technical Cofounder needed to improve men's mental health

Salary Unpaid
Equity To be negotiated

With over 3000 mental health apps in the app store, we have a new challenge helping people connect with the right solutions in an easy, personalised interface. Simply Broken is an early stage startup with two business cofounders looking for someone to join us with deep technical understanding who's looking to take on a cofounder role and shape the roadmap for a complex digital product.


We're looking for someone to join us as a cofounder and leader as the company grows. The product pipeline includes a basic web application that helps match people suffering from mental health challenges to get more easily connected to apps that are on the market. We also want to build a trust engine that shows how reliable the medical claims are that are being made by the apps provided. We also have a backlog of a few proprietary apps we plan to build in partnership with a few companies.

We're starting to go into the multiphase build of a web platform that needs personalised natural language chat and processing, machine learning algorithms for diagnostics and matching to solutions. We are also working on scripts to pull and tag apps in the app store, while also needing to build evaluations for level of documentation and validation for the mental health claims.

Our ideal cofounder has a strong background in digital product management, experience with data science and/or architecture and machine learning script building. You don't need to be an expert in everything but you have to have enough experience to be able to design the product roadmap, help with the execution of epics, user stories, and feature prioritisation. You will take lead on deciding what to build in house and who we should collaborate on to get the various parts of the product built. Ideally you can do some of the basic scripts and structures yourself at least to do validation and prototyping or design the algorithms for the diagnostics..

You hopefully have experience as a founder or early joiner of a startup or scale-up in Europe, or have worked several years as a technical specialist or data scientist and are looking for a chance to take a more leadership role. You know what it takes to get a development team coordinated and delivering, care about working agile, but with a focus on building for the user.

We are a team of two founding business women, with a student product member. We all have a background working with business tech, communication and marketing, business models, and partnerships. We are working on the side but towards funding with the hope to have paid roles by mid-late spring this year. We have one customer prepared to buy our data and have been accepted to the first level of the Healthtech TAB European startup program. We need to go into a strong

Right now we'd expect a couple hours a week from you, we run on two week sprints, where everyone works and then meets to coordinate for the next sprint. The hope would be that you could come on full time once we have some early funding in place. It'd be fine if you do freelance gigs on the side or consulting as long as it's not directly competitive to our product offering.

For more information or questions please contact us at anneli@simplybroken.org

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By June 2020 there were over 20,000 mental health apps on the app store. As that number grows, the ability to get people access to the tools best suiting them gets harder and harder. We were created to combat the noise and make sure that everyone, everywhere has instant access to relevant and trustworthy mental health support. We have an app for users to track their issues and be matched to validated tools. We also work with companies providing anonymized insights on how their employees are feeling and help them take supportive action. We are out in beta with the full product launching mid-2021. If you care about people getting better access to metal health support through technology, join us and let's make a difference.

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