Vice President, Operations
Posted 9 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Vice President, Operations | Aetherus Health”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Vice President, Operations | Aetherus Health
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Reports to: Founder & CEO
Start date: January 2027
Employment: 0.6 FTE to start, scaling to full-time employment as financing closes
Career path: Clear track to Chief Operating Officer
Compensation: Salary + equity participation
About the Venture: Aetherus Health
Aetherus is an early-stage medical device company developing a pocket-sized positive pressure device that gives patients rapid, drug-free relief from breathlessness while passively capturing physiologic data during treatment.
The company is pursuing FDA 510(k) clearance for Lung Expansion Therapy, with COPD as the launch market and future opportunities in perioperative care and heart failure. The target is US commercial launch in Q3 2027.
Aetherus runs a deliberately lean model:
- Global headquarters in New Jersey
- Operating, clinical, and product development base in Pittsburgh
- Engineering and development with an external partner in Minneapolis
- Specialist partners used wherever they offer the best mix of capability, speed, quality, and cost
The Opportunity
We are looking for a disciplined medical device operator to own the full non-commercial path from product to patient: product delivery, engineering and software, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and launch readiness.
This is a hands-on executive role, not a strategy or oversight role. You will turn agreed strategy into delivered outcomes, keep complex programs moving through the messy middle, and make decisions within agreed boundaries. Much of the specialist capability sits with external partners, so you will lead through influence, contracts and clear accountability rather than headcount. As Aetherus scales, operational functions will report into you.
Your Role
Own Product to Market Execution
- Build and drive the integrated critical path to US launch in Q3 2027
- Lead product finalization across hardware and software: design freeze, V&V, submission readiness and manufacturing readiness
- Surface risks and delays early, and bring options and a recommendation, not just the problem
- Run a lean operating cadence that gives the CEO and Board confidence without bureaucracy
Lead Engineering and Development Partners
- Govern day-to-day delivery across engineering, software and product development partners