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title: 'Leadership & Culture Development Lead at Neko Health'
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# Leadership & Culture Development Lead at Neko Health

- **Company:** [Neko Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/neko-health)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health/4c6c6b61-f438-4ac7-a7dd-c6e146e98bbd

## Job description

Mission Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

## Role Purpose

The Leadership & Culture Development Lead owns how Neko's leaders are developed and how the leadership bar shows up in practice, plus which culture products get built and how they deploy across markets. This role merges leadership and culture development deliberately: it is broader than either would be alone, and the combination is what earns the credibility to coach and challenge the ELT. It sits on the two priorities CHROs rank first and second for 2026. What You'll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months

- Onboard every new leader into Neko's leadership standards, Vitals and culture code from day one of their leadership role. (Member-first, Always)
- Turn the Neko leadership model into ongoing practice — coaching, mentorship, scans — with a measurable improvement in leadership capability, not a one-off training event. (Impact, Not Activity)
- Ship a reusable culture product library that any market or clinic can deploy without this role being in the room. (Chase 10X, Not 10%)
- Run the first leadership and culture scans that show where the gaps are and what to do about them. (Optimistic Truth-seeking)
- Direct the AI Enablement releases: i.e leadership buddy and culture buddy live and in use by real leaders. (Tech-enabled, Human-centred)

## Responsibilities

Leadership development

- Own how leaders are developed and what the leadership bar looks like in practice.
- Design and run leadership development programmes and leadership scans.
- Provide coaching and mentorship directly to leaders, including holding the standard with the ELT.

Culture

- Own culture design and iteration, ways of working, and input into the EVP.
- Decide which culture products get built and how they are deployed across HQ and clinics.
- Own culture activations that reinforce the Vitals in day-to-day work, not just at onboarding.

Decisions & Authority

- Owns the leadership development and culture product roadmap.
- Authority to coach and challenge ELT members on leadership behaviour; carries a credibility floor for this.
- Directs the AI Enablement priorities within the frameworks this role sets.

## Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

- Required — Has personally built something with AI — an agent, tool, script, or workflow — even an experiment that didn't scale. We're screening for hands-on builder evidence, not familiarity with AI as a concept.
- Track record designing and running a leadership development programme at a scaling company, ideally 500–2,000 employees.
- Experience building or evolving a company culture framework, including translating it into concrete products, not just a values deck.
- Direct coaching experience with senior leaders, including giving unwelcome feedback to people more senior than them.

## Skills & Competencies

- Can turn an abstract leadership model into a scan, a coaching product and a habit — not just a slide.
- Executive presence: credible challenging ELT members on leadership behaviour.
- People management: sets direction for a builder role without micromanaging the build.
- AI fluency: knows which parts of leadership and culture coaching are safe to delegate to an agent, and which require a human.

Mission & Vitals Alignment

- Believes leadership capability is the highest-leverage lever available and acts like it, not like a training administrator.
- Optimistic truth-seeker: delivers hard leadership feedback with care, not with a manual for tenure.
- Comfortable being new at the top table: this credibility has to be earned in the room, not inherited from title.

## About Neko Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neko Health is a healthcare technology company that has engineered a proprietary, data-driven preventive health scan to detect early signs of disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek (Co-founder, also founder/CEO of Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare Technology, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Diagnostics
- Target customers: B2C – Health-conscious individuals; B2B Potential – Self-insured employers
- Mission or purpose statement: “To provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives.”

## Products & Services
- **[The Neko Health Scan]**: A 60-minute, full-body health check that captures millions of data points across the skin, heart, blood, and circulation using four proprietary devices (Derma, Spectrum, Echo, and Neko Lens). Includes an unrushed consultation with a doctor where results are discussed immediately. The scan is priced at approximately 2750kr (~$260) in Sweden and is designed for asymptomatic, healthy individuals looking for prevention.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as of mid-2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$325.1M** (one prior funding round).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “investors who have built and scaled some of the most ambitious technology companies of the last two decades” (individual names not publicly listed on career page). The company has strong ties to the tech and startup ecosystem.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,000 employees (more than half in clinical roles). Aggressive expansion with active clinic locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stockholm, and plans for more. Job postings have increased +344.4% year-over-year (as of mid-2026), indicating rapid scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Hardware**: All four scanning devices are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house in Stockholm, creating a hard-to-replicate technological moat.
- **Integrated Clinical Model**: Unlike traditional clinics or digital health apps, Neko combines its proprietary hardware with on-site doctors, clinical researchers, and data science under one roof with a low patient volume per doctor ( ~9 members/day vs. 30+ in standard care). This enables a focus on prevention, not just treatment.
- **Data Moat**: The system captures millions of structured data points per scan, allowing for peer benchmarking and longitudinal tracking over years, creating a powerful, network-effect dataset for preventive health insights.
- **Leadership**: Co-founded by Daniel Ek (Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scan Room**: Neko is actively testing a second-generation modular scan room platform designed to capture more signals and scale to new locations.
- **Global Expansion**: Opening new clinics across the UK and Europe, with a clear intent to make the service more accessible.
- **Clinical Research & Governance**: Continued focus on validating their devices with clinical studies and building a clinical leadership team (including ex-NHS and Amazon Health executives) to establish preventive care as a formal clinical discipline.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
- **Culture & Engineering**: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
- **Work Model**: Roles are **on-site** at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/en)
2. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/us/en/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nekohealth)
4. [nekohealthcareers.com](https://www.nekohealthcareers.com/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health)

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