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# Skin Health Specialist - Physician at Neko Health

- **Company:** [Neko Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/neko-health)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $259k–$297k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health/e53b88a6-7e15-4d70-8dc3-d5e628f6a967

## 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 Skin Specialist (NY) will serve as the local clinical liaison between scanning clinicians and our International Expert Center (IEC) Dermatologists, signing off on specialist recommendations and operationalizing the necessary referrals, serving as a clinical escalation point for scanning clinicians who need guidance or Quality Improvement round our dermatology service line, and building scalable skin health care pathways as the business grows. This is a hybrid role split evenly between service line leadership and active scanning clinician work: built for a primary care clinician who wants to deepen dermatology expertise and expand their scope without stepping away from patient care. What You'll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months

- Skin lesions, tagged for review by the scanning clinicians, and then reviewed by our dermatology specialists, are signed off on in a timely manner and referral care pathways for dermatologic findings are documented, implemented, and adopted across active US clinics, ensuring members get the care they need with the right level of specialist review and scanning clinicians have a clear path to specialist input. (Tech-Enabled, Human-Centered)
- You've become a trusted bridge between scanning clinicians and dermatology specialists, providing reliable guidance on referrals and specialist recommendations. (Member-first, Always)
- You maintain a 50% scanning clinician caseload alongside service line leadership duties, holding the same standard of patient care you held before taking on this role. (Impact, Not Activity)
- Friction points in the dermatology service line are surfaced early and addressed directly with dermatologists and operational teams, not left to compound. (Optimistic Truth-seeking)

## Minimum Requirements

- Clinical licensure in the state of NY: MD, DO, NP or PA required
- For physicians, board-certified or board-eligible in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or a related primary care specialty. For NPs and PA, certification via an accredited professional board.
- While this role is not responsible for first-line dermoscopy or lesion read (this is done by our consulting dermatologists), experience evaluating common skin findings and lesions, and an understanding of skin cancer screening and dermatologic workflows, is required.
- Comfortable collaborating with specialist physicians and operationalizing referral pathways based on specialist recommendations.
- Clinical experience in primary care, a dermatology practice, preventive health, outpatient medicine, or a similar setting.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage escalations, referrals, and operational follow-through.
- Genuine interest in dermatology and clinical leadership, with the flexibility to balance clinical and administrative responsibilities.

## Preferred

- Prior experience as a lead clinician, medical director, or clinical champion.
- Experience supporting referral pathways or care coordination.
- Process-improvement or operational leadership experience.
- Experience with skin cancer screening, dermatologic triage, or preventive skin health programs.

## 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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